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WATCH: Inside the room at the Colorado Capitol where bills go to die
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The kill committee at the state Capitol lived up to its name on Thursday. Three bills to loosen Colorado’s gun laws failed for the fifth straight year in the same committee that they have failed in the last five years: The House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee, known as the “kill committee.” “Well, it’s…
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In surprise turn, Senate ‘kill committee’ green lights gay-rights harassment bill
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A state Senate committee packed with a conservative Republican-majority voted unanimously on Wednesday to advance a bill that would stiffen penalties for those who harass Coloradans for being gay or disabled. Gay rights supporters reacted with a jolt after the vote. They had braced for yet another defeat in the infamously hardline State Affairs “kill”…
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Wist night-time tweeting that he’s upbeat on construction defects reform!
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State Rep. Cole Wist has got construction defects on the mind, understandably so. At midnight on Thursday, after a long day at the Legislature, including sitting on an hours-long committee hearing that concluded with lengthy and emotional testimony on the “Ralph Carr” bill meant to head off Trump-era encroachments on states rights and civil rights,…
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State House GOP office lands on a theme
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Republicans are the minority caucus in the Colorado House. It’s a tough gig. In the year of the Trump presidential election victory, the House Republicans lost three seats, swelling the Democratic majority to nine seats. The chamber’s committees are naturally stacked against perennial favorite conservative proposals. Vote tallies are often lopsided; the results just as…
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On Wednesday, doomed GOP House gun bills to meet likely end
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The Colorado House “kill committee” is revving up to end its first round of bloody business this week with a slate of gun bills set to be heard Wednesday. The House State Affairs committee schedule that day includes HB 1036, a concealed carry in schools bill; HB 1037, a “Make My Day,’ deadly force against…
