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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:
The U.S. Forest Service on Wednesday, Jan. 17, withdrew a federal permit for a section of the Uinta Basin Railway Project, a key part of a proposed rail network that would pass through western Colorado to connect Utah oil fields with refineries along the Gulf Coast.
As people gathered in City Park for the annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Marade Monday morning, Danyel Freeman of Denver, checked her phone. It read minus-4 degrees.
“I don’t believe the cold is stopping anyone from coming out here today to support,” she said, while paying tribute to the civil rights leader. “He just carved a lot of paths for African-American people. This march means a lot to a lot of us. It means a lot just to be here, just to be alive in 2024.”