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Hickenlooper leads governors asking for cooperation on healthcare

Oct 19, 2017

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JOEY BUNCH

Colorado’s Gov. John Hickenlooper leads a group of 10 governors asking Congress to vote on a bipartisan healthcare plan they say will calm the troubled waters of the private health insurance market. The support a bipartisan deal led by Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Patty Murray, D-Wash., for a two-year extension of federal subsidies to…
Hickenlooper ‘relieved’ Senate won’t vote on Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill

Sep 26, 2017

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Ernest Luning

Gov. John Hickenlooper said Tuesday he’s “relieved” the Senate has abandoned plans to vote on the latest Republican-sponsored effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act and urged lawmakers to get back to work on a bipartisan fix for the Obama health care law. After three GOP senators said they wouldn’t support the most recent plan to…
Kerr leads in state lawmaker movement opposed to DeVos nomination

Feb 1, 2017

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John Tomasic

State Sen. Andy Kerr fully intends to continue a national state lawmaker pressure campaign in opposition to the nomination of Betsy DeVos as education secretary. Kerr, a Lakewood Democrat and Jefferson Country school district social studies teacher, sent a letter this week signed by more than 400 state legislators to U.S. Sens. Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee,…
For Trump and GOP, ‘Obamacare’ repeal is complex and risky

Nov 22, 2016

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Alan Fram

Here’s the idea: Swiftly pass a repeal of President Barack Obama’s health care law, perhaps soon enough for Donald Trump to sign it the day he takes the presidential oath. Then approve legislation restructuring the nation’s huge and convoluted health care system – despite Republican divisions, Democratic opposition and millions of jittery constituents. What could…
Yesteryear: GOP gears up for ’96 presidential primary, Hairstreak Butterfly gets Senate nod

Feb 18, 2016

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Ernest Luning

Twenty Years Ago this week in The Colorado Statesman … While the state was only in the “infancy stage” as a player in presidential politics, Colorado’s second presidential primary, in 1996, was shining a spotlight on a state that had been mostly ignored by presidential hopefuls. “Colorado got an enormous amount of attention from the…

lamar alexander

Hickenlooper leads governors asking for cooperation on healthcare

Hickenlooper ‘relieved’ Senate won’t vote on Graham-Cassidy Obamacare repeal bill

Kerr leads in state lawmaker movement opposed to DeVos nomination

For Trump and GOP, ‘Obamacare’ repeal is complex and risky

Yesteryear: GOP gears up for ’96 presidential primary, Hairstreak Butterfly gets Senate nod