colorado congressional delegation
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Colorado’s Democratic senators slam deal to end shutdown, vow to fight for health care tax credits
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Colorado’s two Democratic U.S. senators voted against a bipartisan deal reached Sunday to end the longest federal government shutdown in history, blasting the package’s failure to extend some health insurance tax credits. The full Senate passed spending legislation late Monday that could pave the way to reopen the government before the end of the week…
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Colorado delegation seeks federal aid for wildfire-ravaged Rio Blanco County
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Colorado’s 10 U.S. senators and representatives sent a letter to President Donald Trump on Monday, asking him to declare a disaster following pair of wildfires that burned in the northwestern part of the state last month. Under the Stafford Act of 1988, a state’s governor can request a presidential major disaster declaration if the state doesn’t have…
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Colorado’s congressional delegation vows to fight Trump’s plans to move Space Command to Alabama
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Every member of Colorado’s congressional delegation on Tuesday condemned President Donald Trump’s announcement that Space Command will move from its headquarters in Colorado Springs to Alabama in a joint statement charging that such a move would weaken national security and “will directly harm our state and the nation.” “We are united in fighting to reverse…
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Q&A with Joe Neguse | ‘We’re going to keep showing up’: Colorado Democrat logs year’s 15th town hall
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U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, the assistant House minority leader and a Lafayette Democrat, held his 15th in-person town hall of the year on Aug. 19 in Steamboat Springs, racking up more of the events in eight months than the rest of the state’s House delegation combined. The joint event with Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet…
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Colorado’s Congressional delegation talks bipartisanship, tariffs and health care at chamber luncheon
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The eight members of Colorado’s delegation to the U.S. House often agreed more times than is often portrayed — on major issues affecting the state. All eight members appeared together, for the first time publicly ever, to attend the Colorado Chamber of Commerce’s seventh biennial congressional delegation luncheon, where they discussed issues in front of…
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DeGette seeks leadership post in new House majority
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U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette hopes her 22nd year representing the 1st Congressional District in Denver comes with a new title: House majority whip. DeGette has been the chief deputy whip of the Democratic caucus for 14 years and hopes to become the first Democratic member of Congress from the Mountain West and only the second…
