Neguse, Boebert top Colorado’s list for making laws
The rankings put out by the Center for Effective Lawmaking focuses on how effective congress members are at advocating for their bills in certain policy areas, as well as overall.
Freshmen Rep. Jeff Hurd steps into a high-wire policy push with bill to extend ACA tax credit
The Western Slope freshman is part of a bipartisan push to keep enhanced tax credits from expiring, something many Republicans oppose.
‘Animal House’ in the House? A week of censure resolutions and expulsion threats has lawmakers looking for a different way
Colorado lawmakers say they’d support making it harder to formally rebuke colleagues, to reduce partisanship in the process.
Will Colorado join the redistricting war?
Other blue states want Colorado to join the fray, but redrawing lines early is easier said than done.
As federal support wanes, Colorado’s nonprofits contemplate a rocky future
“This is a new reality, a new dynamic that nonprofits are going to have to adapt to.”
President labels Rep. Jason Crow and others ‘traitors’ for video urging the military not to follow unlawful orders
On social media, Trump accused the lawmakers of seditious behavior, and said it was punishable by death.
From vans for veterans to new police stations, Colorado earmarks included in deal to reopen the government
The three full-year spending bills passed by Congress direct $34 million to projects in Colorado.
Government shutdown ends after House passes spending package, Trump signs it
Colorado’s Republicans voted for the measure to end the longest shutdown in history, while Democrats opposed it because it did not address skyrocketing health care costs.
Rep. Lauren Boebert helps force House vote on release of Epstein files
Boebert met with White House officials before the petition was finalized but denied she was pressured to remove her support.
Bennet, Hickenlooper blast vote to reopen government without any guarantees on health care subsidies
Colorado’s Democratic House members have all said they will vote against the deal in their chamber.
With no deal on health care subsidies, Coloradans face possibility of going without insurance next year
The fear comes as Senate Democrats voted to end the shutdown without a fix for an expiring tax credit that helps Coloradans buy health insurance on the marketplace.
Senate on path to end government shutdown
Colorado’s Senators opposed the deal because it did not address rising health care costs.
State attempting to obtain SNAP funding for Colorado beneficiaries, but Supreme Court keeps money frozen for now
600,000 Coloradans, half of them children, rely on food stamp benefits.
Yes, yes, we just had an election, but it’s never too soon to talk about the midterms
Coloradans spoke strongly about school lunches in this off-year election. Next year’s ballots will give them a lot more to chew on.
As state after state weighs partisan redistricting, the people who drew Colorado’s map hope it stays out of the fray
California’s governor name-checked Colorado this week, as he urged more blue states to counter Republicans’ new maps.
Latino groups condemn Rep. Lauren Boebert’s Halloween costume
The Republican congresswoman made light of immigrants’ fears of the ICE crackdown and mocked Spanish pronunciations
