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The office of Rep. Joe Neguse is accepting applications for community projects to receive federal dollars under the new Community Project Funding program, which allows members of Congress to request funding for as many as 10 projects within their home districts.
Following a deadly mass shooting in Boulder, Colo., House Democrats are calling on President
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse is embarking on a virtual tour in coming weeks to hear from Coloradans about their public lands priorities as the Lafayette Democrat takes over as chairman of the House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
Neguse, who represents the 2nd Congressional District, said in a release that he plans to gather input from across the state as he hones an agenda covering conservation, wildfire mitigation, managing natural resources and helping boost Colorado’s outdoor recreation economy.
Democratic Rep. Joe Neguse, whose district includes Boulder where 10 people were killed in a mass shooting Monday, said he supports reinstating the federal ban on assault weapons.
“And I'm a co-sponsor of a bill that's pending before the House Judiciary Committee, a committee on which I serve,” Neguse told Colorado Matters.
Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse said mass shootings "cannot be our new normal" in the wake of the Boulder grocery store shooting that left 10 dead.
"We should be able to feel safe in our grocery stores," Neguse, a Democratic member of Congress since 2019, said. "We should be able to feel safe in our schools and in our movie theaters and in our communities. We need to see a change because we have lost far too many lives."
Colorado Congressman Joe Neguse introduced legislation to reauthorize a federal program that has provided Grand County over $1 million for school building improvements.
The Secure Rural Schools program, which began in 2000, gives school districts where national forest takes up a large portion of the property in the area funding to supplement the lower property taxes.
The program had been authorized to give funding through April of this year. Neguse’s legislation would extend the program through 2022.
An unprecedented moment warrants an urgent and unprecedented response.
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis have left Colorado hurting. Hundreds of thousands of Coloradans have been infected and more than 6,000 tragically lost their lives to the virus. Colorado’s unemployment rate is still more than double what it was pre-pandemic. Forty percent of Coloradans are going hungry and thousands of small businesses have been shuttered or are on the verge of closing.
The first African-American to head the US House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forest and Public Lands, Rep. Joe Neguse of Colorado is crafting an agenda aimed at the nation’s parks, forests and public lands. Also at the forefront, Neguse says, he wants to tackle western wildfires.
With the unveiling of a new plan for “Restoring Our Lands and Communities,” the 36-year-old congressman is set to chair his first subcommittee hearing next week.
The nonpartisan Center for Effective Lawmaking, in a new report, ranked Congressman Joe Neguse as one of the top 10 most effective lawmakers in the country. Neguse was also ranked as the most effective lawmaker in Colorado’s congressional delegation, the most effective lawmaker among the freshman class in the 116th Congress, and the most effective for legislating on public lands.
In the past year, food bank operations have increased greatly across the nation due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Visits to Community Food Share’s network of food pantries and meal programs grew by 15% during the pandemic, and the amount of food distributed by Sister Carmen Community Center’s food bank has increased from the year before the pandemic by roughly 200,000 pounds.