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Denver City Council preliminarily votes to repeal auditor subpoena power

Mar 8, 2022

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LINDSEY TOOMER

Denver City Council passed on first reading a motion to repeal an ordinance passed last May granting the city auditor subpoena power Monday night after he filed a lawsuit against the council saying an amendment made to it was unlawful. The plan is to start over with a better ordinance addressing the matter. In May…
City council to repeal bill after Denver auditor files lawsuit to determine its legality

Mar 4, 2022

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LINDSEY TOOMER

After Denver Auditor Tim O’Brien filed a lawsuit claiming City Council passed an illegal amendment on an ordinance restricting the auditor’s ability to issue subpoenas, council has filed to repeal the bill and start the process over. In May 2021, Denver City Council passed an ordinance giving the auditor power to issue subpoenas to access…
Bennet among critics of Obamacare replacement bill at Monday Senate hearing

Sep 26, 2017

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Tom Ramstack

Colorado Senator Michael Bennet harshly criticized a Republican proposal for revamping the nation’s health insurance during an emotional congressional hearing Monday in Washington, D.C. He said the plan would leave millions of Americans without health insurance. “What they’re doing is stripping hard-earned protections from the American people,” Bennet, a Democrat, said during a hearing of…
Colorado Republicans give up on repealing health exchange

May 8, 2017

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Peter Marcus

A Republican effort to repeal the state’s health-insurance exchange is a lost cause in the GOP-controlled Senate, despite Republicans making it a priority this year. First mentioned in Senate President Kevin Grantham’s opening day speech – at which time he said it was “time for us to shed some of the dead weight of failed government policy”…
Paul Ryan says more help for older people needed in GOP health bill

Mar 20, 2017

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Hope Yen

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…
Republicans defend plan to repeal health insurance exchange despite protests

Jan 31, 2017

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Peter Marcus

As demonstrators called for keeping the status quo, Colorado Senate Republicans on Tuesday argued the case for what is so far a one-party effort to repeal the state’s health-insurance exchange. Dozens of activists and some Democratic lawmakers gathered on the steps outside the legislature for a demonstration opposing the Republican effort to repeal Connect for Health Colorado, the state’s marketplace for purchasing…

repeal

Denver City Council preliminarily votes to repeal auditor subpoena power

City council to repeal bill after Denver auditor files lawsuit to determine its legality

Bennet among critics of Obamacare replacement bill at Monday Senate hearing

Colorado Republicans give up on repealing health exchange

Paul Ryan says more help for older people needed in GOP health bill

Republicans defend plan to repeal health insurance exchange despite protests