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Sen. Bennet endorses Senate farm bill draft

Jun 12, 2018

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Marianne Goodl

One day ahead of a hearing focused on the 2018 farm bill, Sen. Michael Bennet of Denver has endorsed the draft proposed by the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry. Bennet announced Tuesday he would support the version released last week by the committee, of which he is a member. The ag committee is…
Colorado Democrats and Republicans disagree over secret Russia investigation memo

Feb 3, 2018

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Tom Ramstack

The memo President Donald Trump declassified Friday to show that the FBI allegedly wrongly accused him of misconduct in his election campaign turned up deep divisions between Colorado’s Democrats and Republicans in Congress. Republicans such as Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado Springs, and Rep. Ken Buck, R-Windsor, agreed with the president. However, Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet and…
Sen. Michael Bennet introduces bill to protect national monuments

Feb 2, 2018

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Tom Ramstack

There’s a land rush starting today in Utah that at least one Colorado senator wants to make certain never happens in his state. Miners are staking claims to parcels of land in large swaths of what formerly was about 2 million acres of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments in Utah, along Colorado’s southwest…
UPDATE: Opinions mixed among Colorado lawmakers on president’s State of the Union address

Jan 31, 2018

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Tom Ramstack

President Trump announced plans during his State of the Union address Tuesday for a $1.5 trillion infrastructure spending plan that could be good news for Colorado’s ambitious road-building plans. However, he also said he would move forward with a get-tough policy on immigration that is nearly certain to alienate the state’s large Hispanic population. He…
Sen. Michael Bennet tells Senate to listen to the voices of Dreamers

Jan 18, 2018

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JOEY BUNCH

U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, the Democrat from Denver who is an architect of compromise and reason on immigration issues in Washington, took to the floor of the Senate Wednesday evening to try to salvage a compromise on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. A deal tied to President Trump’s demand for a wall and…
Rep. Mike Coffman seeks to prevent some immigrant deportations

Jan 12, 2018

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Tom Ramstack

Washington – A bill introduced this week by a Colorado congressman seeks to prevent deportation for many foreigners living in the United States with temporary permission at a time immigration has become one of Washington’s hottest issues. Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Aurora, wants to eliminate the Temporary Protected Status that gives immigrants only a limited right…
Trump’s reduction of national monuments draws impassioned reactions in Colorado

Dec 5, 2017

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Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON – Colorado’s environmentalists and Democratic politicians blasted President Donald Trump’s announcement Monday that he would drastically reduce the size of two wilderness national monuments in Utah. Some asked whether federal land in Colorado would be next. “In Colorado, we value our lands because they are part of our fabric and they strengthen local economies,”…
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…
Not everyone thinks Colorado’s Allison Eid should be on the federal appellate bench

Aug 15, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

The response to Colorado Supreme Court Justice Allison Eid’s nomination in June to the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has mostly ranged from effusive praise on the political right to polite reserve along the rest of the spectrum. As an example of the latter, Colorado senior Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet was nothing if not…
A salute to Colorado potatoes — and to politicians who can get along

Jul 28, 2017

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DAN NJEGOMIR Colorado Politics

We tend to avoid blogging about the many press releases we get from Colorado’s Washington delegation “announcing” some grant or new funding stream to some program or another back home in Colorado. It’s not that we don’t think the programs themselves merit news coverage or that Colorado isn’t happy to have the extra funding; it’s…