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Today, Congressman Joe Neguse, who represents Larimer County in the U.S. House of Representatives announced that Estes Park will receive a $300,000 grant from the Department of Transportation (DOT) to construct a bus storage facility to house electric trollies. The funds will be provided through the Buses and Bus Facilities Grant Program, which assists transit systems across the country finance buses and bus facilities capital projects.
Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and other House Democrats signed on to a letter urging the Federal Reserve to do more to support state and local governments, adding to criticism that the central bank is being too cautious in some of the programs it set up to help the economy during the pandemic.
On August 4, Senator Tom Udall and Representative Joe Neguse introduced proposed legislation — the “Protect America’s Children from Toxic Pesticides Act”, or (PACTPA). This bill would overhaul U.S. pesticide rules, ultimately mandating new rules to protect people and the environment.
PAN Senior Scientist Margaret Reeves says it best:
Larimer County will participate in a virtual job and resource fair next week to help connect those navigating a job search amid COVID-19.
Sponsored by U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse of Colorado, the job fair will be completely online and include the Boulder and Larimer workforce centers. Neguse represents Larimer and Boulder counties in the second congressional district of Colorado.
The sessions will begin at 3 p.m. Aug. 12.
Legislation introduced today would ban or restrict scores of the most toxic pesticides, introduce health-protective restrictions on pesticide use and registration, and create new safety protections for farmworkers – the most sweeping overhaul of the nation’s pesticide law in nearly 25 years.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse is a whittler when it comes to Colorado and elections.
The fast-rising freshman from Boulder County passed an amendment Friday that would eliminate the usual 5% match for federal election dollars. That comes after he tucked the Secure Our Elections Act into the Heroes Act relief package that passed the House in May.
Sometimes, it’s the little lies that are the most telling.
Watching the leaders of Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Google face a filleting in front of the House antitrust panel on Wednesday, I kept a running list of the little half-truths they told.
If I only had a dollar for every time a big tech CEO said they cared deeply about our privacy.
Today, Congressman Joe Neguse joined Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Natural Resources Chairman Raúl Grijalva and bill sponsor Congressman Joe Cunningham for a bill enrollment ceremony for the Great American Outdoors Act. The legislation would fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund at $900 million and invest funds to address the over $20 billion public lands maintenance backlog.
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy (CORE) Act, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, who represents eastern Eagle County, as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.
The CORE Act, which would protect large swaths of Colorado public lands as wilderness, has already passed the House as a stand-alone piece of legislation. U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, will now try to get a CORE Act amendment passed in the upper chamber. His office issued this press release on Tuesday:
When the Trump administration updated its travel-ban list to include the East African nation of Eritrea this winter, the battle that U.S. Representative Joe Neguse had been waging against previous iterations of Trump's travel ban suddenly became personal.