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As fire danger rises in Colorado, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added firefighters among those eligible for priority coronavirus testing. The change comes at the urging of Rep. Joe Neguse, a Democrat who represents Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District.
His district includes the Elk Creek Fire Department where, last month, a firefighter developed symptoms of COVID-19 on the same day that three wildfires erupted in Jefferson County. Chief Jacob Ware said he had no choice but to quarantine the entire wildland fire team.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) joined a trio of fellow Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate this week in calling for the swift passage of a bill aimed at banning price gouging practices that have led sellers to jack up the prices on items such as masks and hand sanitizer during the ongoing COVID-19 outbreak.
Rep. Joe Neguse will hold a virtual town hall meeting Thursday morning for high school students across the 2nd Congressional District who are home due to COVID-19.
On the call, Neguse will provide a brief civics lesson and will answer questions about government and the coronavirus, the congressman’s office said in a press release.
The call will be from 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Thursday, April 16. Interested students can RSVP by emailing townhall.questions@mail.house.gov.
DILLON — On Tuesday, April 7, members of the U.S. House of Representatives — including Rep. Joe Neguse, of Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District — introduced the Coronavirus Community Relief Act, which aims to provide $250 billion for communities affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO) introduced a bill Tuesday that would provide $25 billion to a United States Postal Service (USPS) that was struggling financially even before the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States.
The proposed law, called the Protect Our Post Offices Act, was a response by Neguse to concerns heard by his office from his district (spanning from Boulder to Fort Collins to parts of Summit County) about the delivery of medications and other important supplies.
Spirit Hound Distillers of Lyons has been working with outside organizations to produce and package hand sanitizer to produce and sell the product to in need communities due to the precautions surrounding the coronavirus pandemic.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Boulder, is asking distilleries from around the United States to follow Spirit Hound Distillers’ example to use their resources to create hand sanitizers for community members.
BOULDER — U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse and a bipartisan group of House Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Commercial and Administrative Law members are urging U.S. Attorney General William Barr to take stronger action in combating consumer-goods price gouging during the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse last week introduced legislation that would require the U.S. Department of Defense to report on the national security effects of climate change and its strategy for confronting those challenges.
Growth across Northern Colorado in recent years has developed a unique set of circumstances. As our communities expand and flourish, growing populations put stress on infrastructure, transportation and lead many individuals to be priced out of our city limits and forced to live farther and farther away from where they work.
Two bills with Colorado ties are one step closer to becoming law after votes in the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday.
One would create a women’s suffrage monument in the nation’s capital, and the other would expand the Yucca House National Monument south of Cortez.