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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.
A dozen House Democrats who were barred from visiting immigration detention facilities sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, arguing that a new policy imposed by the Department of Homeland Security to limit lawmakers’ access was an illegal infringement on their ability to conduct congressional oversight.
Colorado Congressman Joe Neguse is leading the opposition to proposed funding cuts to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) that would close longstanding research institutions across the country and in Northern Colorado.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., during a town hall Friday in Frisco responded to questions about the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign and the passage of a Republican policy bill.
A Trump administration scheme to jam through a big increase in Utah oil trains traveling along tracks in the narrow canyons of the upper Colorado River was met with a strong statement of condemnation by Colorado U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse and Sen. Michael Bennet on Monday.
“The Bureau of Land Management’s decision to fast-track the Wildcat Loadout expansion — a project that would transport an additional 70,000 barrels of crude oil [a day] on train tracks along the Colorado River — using emergency procedures, is profoundly flawed,” the lawmakers wrote.
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.”