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A Commerce Department laboratory at the base of the Flatirons in Boulder, dedicated by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1954, is so old it is eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places.
A bipartisan group of more than a dozen lawmakers on Wednesday introduced a bill banning members of Congress and senior staff from buying and selling stocks, most bonds and options contracts.
Called the Ban Conflicted Trading Act, the measure is intended to prevent lawmakers and high-level staffers from enriching themselves through trades based on potentially market-moving information.
Rep. Joe Neguse (D-Colo.) and Rep. Lucy McBath (D-Ga.) will ask President Biden to appoint a national director of gun violence prevention, Axios has learned.
Why it matters: The issue — which resonates in Colorado with its dark legacy of mass shootings — comes days after the White House began to push forward on an issue activists wanted to see prioritized in his first month.
Rep. Joe Neguse, a young Democrat from Colorado, rose to speak, full of an unfailing faith in American democracy. This moment was set to be one of the most important of his short career so far in Congress. At age 36, Neguse had only just been sworn in for his second two-year term, but already he’d distinguished himself enough among his 220 Democratic peers that he was enlisted to be part of the small team tasked with arguing against the objections Republicans were expected to raise to Joe Biden’s certification as president-elect that day, January 6th, 2021.
United States Rep. Joe Neguse has seen his political profile skyrocket since the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse has a stacked agenda for his second Congressional term that includes COVID-19 relief, a new bipartisan wildfire caucus and another chance for two sweeping public lands bills.
Neguse, a Democrat, passed nine bills in the last session, the second-most of any lawmaker. He's coming off a high-profile stint as one of the House impeachment managers. His second term is also the first one he’s served under a trifecta of Democratic control, which will likely give some of his legislation a better shot at passage.
(CBS4) – A Colorado congressman is issuing a call to action after three record-setting wildfires last year. Two of those fires happened in Rep. Joe Neguse’s district, which is why he assembled Gov. Jared Polis, Colorado Director of Public Safety Stan Hilkey and Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper for a virtual listening session.
Neguse invited anyone with concerns to show up and provide feedback. More than 800 Coloradans joined the call. One after another they shared stories of homes lost and lives devastated.
A day after county and state officials met to discuss the road to recovery after the Cameron Peak Fire, Larimer County’s congressional representative Joe Neguse held a wildfire summit with Gov. Jared Polis, Sen. Michael Bennet, Sen. John Hickenlooper and Colorado Department of Public Safety Executive Director Stan Hilkey on the ways, from a governmental level, the issue of wildfires can be addressed in the future.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse said Wednesday he has been elected to chair the House Natural Resources Committee's Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, taking over from U.S. Rep. Deb Haaland, the New Mexico Democrat nominated as secretary of Interior.
Neguse will be the first Coloradan and the first African-American lawmaker to chair the subcommittee in its 215 years of existence.
On Wednesday, Congressman Joe Neguse’s office announced that the he was elected to serve as chair of the U.S. House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands.
Neguse will replace Congresswoman Deb Haaland, who previously chaired the subcommittee, as she leaves to serve as the next secretary of the Department of the Interior.
Neguse, who serves Vail, parts of Avon and other areas of Eagle County, is the first Coloradan to hold the position, and the first African-American to serve in the role since the committee was formed 215 years ago.