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U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, the assistant House minority leader and a Lafayette Democrat, held his 15th in-person town hall of the year on Aug. 19 in Steamboat Springs, racking up more of the events in eight months than the rest of the state’s House delegation combined.
Republicans in the U.S. Senate have introduced a proposal to sell millions of acres of federal land in 11 Western states, including Colorado. The proposal is part of President Trump's budget bill and would require the Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Forest Service to auction off 2.2 - 3.3 million acres of land.
A growing number of younger Americans aren’t just running for Congress to pass bills—they’re running to rebuild trust in the institution itself. If you ask them, Washington isn’t broken by accident. It’s been rigged over time: too cozy with corporate power, too permissive of insider privilege, and too detached from the people it’s supposed to serve. Their argument is clear: the solution isn’t just generational change—it’s structural reform.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse is running point in the court fight against President Trump.
State of play: The Lafayette Democrat and assistant minority leader is co-chair of a litigation task force put together by the House Democratic caucus, a key role in the party's efforts to block the Republican administration.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse finished in second place on a report released this week ranking House members by how many of their bills were signed into law in the last Congress — a feat even more remarkable because the Lafayette Democrat, serving just his third term, was in the minority in the Republican-controlled chamber.
Smoke from enormous wildfires in Canada last summer sent choking clouds of smoke over much of the nation, including Colorado.
On May 20, 2023, the Colorado Department of Health and Environment issued an air quality health advisory for Northeast Colorado.
Denver, for a time, registered in the top-five worst air quality ratings in the world due to the smoke, according to IQAir, “the world's largest free real-time air quality information platform.”
A bill proposed by U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse — which is set to be considered by the U.S. House of Representatives — could provide greater certainty around plans to use an 8-acre U.S. Forest Service administrative site in Steamboat Springs to construct workforce housing.
The U.S. Department of Transportation awarded $4.9 million to Boulder County to increase public access to electric vehicle charging stations.
The county plans to extend stations to areas it determines have the greatest need, such as rural areas, mobile home communities and neighborhoods heavily populated with apartments and condos.
More than two dozen lawmakers called on House leadership Friday to bring a bill banning members of Congress from participating in the stock market to the floor for a vote.
“This is a critical step to ensure Members of Congress are working for their constituents, not themselves,” the group wrote in a letter to Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) and the top members of the House Administration Committee.
The offices of U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet and Colorado U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse on Wednesday issued the following press release applauding the withdrawal by the U.S. Forest Service of its 2022 approval of the Uinta Basin Railway project in Utah: