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WASHINGTON (KDVR) — The NCAR fire is just the latest reason one lawmaker is trying to get Congress to allocate more money to wildfire prevention.
Congressman Joe Neguse has been working on legislation to address wildfires since the end of last year. The bills have not had much movement in Congress, but he is hoping the latest wildfire outbreak will get his colleagues to work a little faster.
The decades-long effort to ensure lasting recognition of Colorado’s Granada War Relocation Center — also known as Camp Amache — finally reached the finish line Friday as President Joe Biden signed legislation making it a national historic site.
Rep. Joe Neguse said he plans to introduce legislation Thursday to promote college completion by funding programs to reduce the needs that can lead a student to drop out early.
The College Completion Fund Act would authorize $62 billion over the next 10 years to fund items such as child care, food and housing assistance, mental health services and career training.
Three Colorado legislators are urging President Joe Biden to expand his free at-home COVID-19 testing kit program.
Rep. Joe Neguse and Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper sent a letter to Biden on Thursday, March 10, urging him to extend the program to include Americans who receive mail from a commercial mail agency. The agencies are privately-owned businesses that accept U.S. Postal Service mail on behalf of third-party individuals, such as local UPS stores, according to a news release.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Colorado's Regional Transportation District (RTD) will receive more than $53 million in funding from the American Rescue Plan, Congressmen Joe Neguse and Jason Crow announced Monday.
The $53,240,645 will be used to support day-to-day operations, cleaning and sanitization and staffing level maintenance, according to Neguse.
Superior Mayor Clint Folsom will be heading to Washington, D.C. on Tuesday – virtually, that is.
Folsom was selected to be Congressman Joe Neguse’s guest at President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address, according to a press release Monday.
“Folks like Mayor Clint Folsom represent our country’s resilience and recovery. In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the devastating Marshall Fire, he has shown great leadership helping communities come together, rebuild and recover,” said Neguse, D-Lafayette.
All that’s left from the original camp are wind-blown prairie grass and old building foundations.
“It's a part of American history that for many years, people wanted to sweep under the carpet,” said Derek Okubo of Denver, whose father, Henry, was incarcerated on these grounds 80 years ago.
U.S. Congressman Joe Neguse, a Democrat who represents Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District, visited an electric bus facility in south Fort Collins on Friday, discussing the new technology with officials from Fort Collins and Larimer County as well as taking a test ride on a fully electric bus.
The congressional district, which Neguse has represented since 2019, encompasses the much of the area northwest of Interstate 76, and a large portion of the Front Range west of Interstate 25. Loveland, Boulder, Fort Collins and Broomfield all fall within the district.
When they were putting together the Fort Collins Recovery Plan, city staff heard a common message from the community.
“'We're not even ready to talk about recovery. We’re in the middle of the pandemic,’ ” Fort Collins Recovery Manager SeonAh Kendall said, describing the sentiment. "We heard people saying, 'I have to make a choice between my basic needs. Work, being home with my children and my own safety.'"
A small patch of grassland and crumbling buildings in eastern Colorado will be preserved to help future generations remember an ignoble moment in American history.
The Senate voted unanimously Monday night to pass the Amache National Historic Site Act, which is sponsored by both of Colorado’s Senators, as well as Reps. Ken Buck and Joe Neguse.