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Jason Crow ranked 11th-most bipartisan House member by Lugar Center, Lauren Boebert lands near bottom
Colorado was home last year to one of the most bipartisan members of Congress and one of the least bipartisan lawmakers, according to an index released last week by the nonpartisan Lugar Center and the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. Finishing in 11th place out of 435 House members, U.S. Rep. Jason…
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Neguse presses for higher pay for wildland firefighters
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, along with several House colleagues, is urging Congress to raise the pay for federal wildland firefighters as they battle tinder-dry conditions across the country, particularly in the West. In Colorado, experts say the conditions have cranked up April’s fire risk to what the state would normally see in the summer. In…
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Caraveo wins backing from all Democrats in Colorado’s US House delegation
Every Democratic member of Colorado’s U.S. House delegation is supporting Yadira Caraveo, the presumptive Democratic nominee in the state’s newest congressional district, following the state legislator’s receipt on Monday of a trio of endorsements. Democratic U.S. Reps. Ed Perlmutter, Joe Neguse and Jason Crow said they’re backing the Thornton pediatrician’s campaign, adding their names to…
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Granada school teacher, students help enshrine Camp Amache’s legacy
When John Hopper, dean of students for the Granada School District, began teaching his history students about Camp Amache in the early 1990s, the site was a sage-brush strewn prairie dotted with concrete foundations. Now, after Hopper and his students spent decades preserving the former Japanese American internment camp from World War II, advocating for it,…
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President Biden signs legislation designating Colorado’s Camp Amache a national historic site
President Joe Biden on Friday signed bipartisan legislation to add the site of a World War II-era Japanese American internment center in the southeast corner of Colorado to the National Park System. Sponsored by Colorado lawmakers U.S. Reps. Joe Neguse and Ken Buck and U.S. Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, the Amache National Historic…
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Polis, political leaders join hundreds in march through Denver for MLK Day
Colorado’s political leaders joined hundreds who took to the streets of Denver on Monday for Martin Luther King Jr. Day during the city’s 37th annual “marade” in honor of the civil rights leader. Denver’s marade – a combination of march and parade – is one of the largest MLK Day celebrations in the country. The…
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Colorado officials reflect on 1-year anniversary of US Capitol attack
On the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Colorado elected officials – including many who were inside the Capitol when it was stormed by a mob of Trump supporters – marked the occasion by asking the American public never to forget it, while others dismissed its comparison to momentous events…
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Colorado delegation splits along party lines as House passes Biden’s Build Back Better bill
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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COVER STORY | Colorado’s Joe Neguse, John Hickenlooper play key roles bringing infrastructure bill to life
Late on the night of Nov. 5, U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse walked alongside two fellow Democratic lawmakers as they made their way outside the U.S. Capitol, prepared to announce that a deal had finally been reached to allow for a vote on the infrastructure bill that had been idling for weeks in the U.S. House…
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Neguse helps lead House passage of Democrats’ voting rights bill
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse helped lead House Democrats Tuesday ahead of a party-line vote to pass legislation aimed at restoring provisions of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The Lafayette Democrat, a member of the powerful House Rules Committee, managed the floor debate over a procedural rule that set up passage of the bill, dubbed the…