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Colorado delegation splits along party lines as House passes Biden’s Build Back Better bill
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Members of the Colorado House delegation voted along party lines Friday on President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better Act, a nearly $2 trillion package Democrats are hailing as a groundbreaking social and environmental legislation and Republicans are denouncing the measure and its price tag. The bill passed on a 220-213 vote, with only one Democrat…
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2 Colo. representatives absent as U.S. House defeats farm bill
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The U.S. House of Representatives intends to take another stab at a 10-year re-authorization of the federal farm bill after that measure failed May 18 – a vote for which two Colorado congressmen representing farm areas were absent. H.R. 2 – the Agriculture and Nutrition Act of 2018 – died on May 18 on a…
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GOP has made things better for the small businesses that drive our economy
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Last week was National Small Business Week, an annual recognition of the big role that small businesses play in the country’s economic success. Small businesses drive local and national economic growth, job creation, and innovation, providing livelihoods for one million Coloradans and their families as well as improving the livelihoods of the rest. And this year there is…
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Doug Lamborn: Republican tax legislation ‘puts a stake through the heart of Obamacare’
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U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn cheered word Friday that congressional Republicans had secured enough votes to pass a massive overhaul of the nation’s tax laws that President Donald Trump has said he hopes to sign before the end of the year but that Democrats say favors corporations and the wealthy without much helping everyone else. “The…
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Colorado could lose millions in mineral lease revenues under tax bill
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Hundreds of Colorado cities, counties and school districts could lose as much as $21 million in mining payments if the Republican Tax Cuts and Jobs Act working its way through Congress passes in its current form. That’s the claim by the left-leaning Center for American Progress, which last week reported the tax bill would balloon…
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Rep. Mike Coffman offers bill to ban Venezuelan oil in wake of political crisis
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WASHINGTON – Colorado Rep. Mike Coffman introduced a bill Tuesday to increase the economic pressure on the troubled Venezuelan government by cutting off its oil exports to the United States. The bill represents a more severe level of sanctions than the debt restrictions the Trump administration imposed Aug. 25. The sanctions were partly a response…
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper: Time to roll up sleeves, address health insurance costs, market stability
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In the wake of the Republican-controlled Senate’s inability to pass legislation to repeal the Affordable Care Act this week, Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper on Friday renewed a call for officials to sit down and come up with a bipartisan solution. “We are encouraged that the Senate has rejected efforts that would have raised health care…
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Hickenlooper: ‘Kind of crazy’ to expect health care solutions from small, partisan group
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Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper, a Democrat, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich, a Republican, on Monday called on Senate Republicans to invite Democrats to the table and bring negotiations over health care legislation into the open. “I’ve never had a good idea in my life that, the moment I started talking about it with staff or…
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DeGette: Trumpcare would hurt seniors and others in Colorado: Here’s how
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Trumpcare was defeated and the Affordable Care Act saved from repeal last month thanks in large part to the American public. They spoke out passionately on behalf of the ACA in phone calls and emails to their members of Congress. They raised their voices at events like the community forum in Denver where 1,000 of…
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Paul Ryan says more help for older people needed in GOP health bill
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Days before a pivotal vote, House Speaker Paul Ryan said Sunday he will seek changes to a GOP health care bill to provide more help to older people. The new willingness to compromise was a bid for more support from moderate Republicans, who expressed continuing unease about the plan to replace Barack Obama’s health law…
