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On dueling ‘sanctuary’ bills, lawmakers talk past, offend each other
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The Republican-controlled state Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday heard dueling hot-button “sanctuary” bills and saw members and witnesses talk past each other, wrestle with language and come to no agreement. The committee voted on party lines to pass the Republican bill and kill the Democratic bill. Republican Senate Bill 281, titled the “Colorado Citizen Protection…
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Colorado to continue ‘rolling coal’
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You couldn’t call anyone who spoke at the Senate State Affairs Committee hearing on Wednesday a fan of “rolling coal,” including the majority Republican senators who all voted against a bill that would have made the practice illegal in Colorado. Rolling coal has made news across the country for years. It involves modifying a diesel…
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State House minority fires first shot in ‘kill committee’ message war
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State House Republican leadership Tuesday lamented that, just four days into the legislative session, promises to foster bipartisan comity at the Capitol were already breaking down. They pointed to the fact that a suite of high priority conservative bills had been assigned by Democratic leadership straight to the chamber’s State Affairs kill committee – which…