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Colorado's Rep. Joe Neguse and Sen. Michael Bennet are sounding an alarm on federal immigration problems.
Both Democrats say a backlog at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which oversees the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, is wreaking havoc on the lives of Colorado "Dreamers" (the program recipients) and their employers.
Colorado Congressman Joe Neguse helped pass the Cross-Boundary Wildfire Solutions Act through the House of Representatives. On Tuesday, the bipartisan bill made it one step closer to President Trump's desk.
The bill asks the federal government to study how different groups can work together to prevent wildfires because there can be different rules and regulations between federal, state and local land.
Neguse knows Colorado is in dire need of mitigation efforts.
In a new court filing, House Democrats objected to a potential settlement in the works between President Donald Trump and his own administration, warning it creates the “specter of corruption unparalleled in American history.”
Nestled in the middle of rural Northern California woods, the Hoopa Valley reservation is primed to burn. Wildfires sweep through every few years, over the same burn scars, threatening to consume the nearly 900 homes on the brush-filled valley floor.
As our state of Colorado approaches its 150th birthday and our nation turns 250 years old, many Americans are disillusioned by this grand experiment in democracy.
Trust in United States Congress is the lowest in decades, and the partisan divide is deeper than ever. It's as though Republicans and Democrats can't even bare to breath the same air as each other, let alone work together for the greater good.
But Democratic U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse and Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Hurd have found a way to transcend the division, distrust and dysfunction.
Rural Colorado counties received over $13.5 million in federal funding through the Secure Rural Schools program to help sustain public schools, maintain local roads, strengthen wildfire preparedness and support other essential services, according to a news release from the office of Rep. Joe Neguse.
This June, Sabra Forquer of Granby traveled to Washington D.C. to celebrate winning first place in a nationwide art contest. Her work, “Colorado Roots Run Deep,” celebrates the soul of the American West and the diversity of the Centennial State in its new home at the nation’s capitol.
DENVER — Colorado will receive more than $420 million in federal broadband funding after the National Telecommunications and Information Administration approved the state’s final proposal under the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) program.
Colorado Congressman Joe Neguse was named the most effective Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives in both environment and public lands policy areas this week, according to a news release from Neguse’s office.
The Center for Effective Lawmaking released the rankings as part of its Interest & Legislative Effectiveness Scores for 2023 to 2025, identifying top-performing lawmakers in each area, by party, for both the House and the Senate.
The federal government will now allow its firefighters to mask up — upending a decades-long policy that had left them exposed to toxic flurries of illness-inducing wildfire smoke.
The U.S. Forest Service this week issued new guidance for wildland firefighters regarding the voluntary use of N95 respirators via the National Interagency Fire Center’s health program, as first reported by The New York Times.