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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.
Loveland artist Jane DeDecker watched with awe as the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan bill to allow her 22-foot-tall bronze tribute to women suffragettes to be placed in Washington, D.C.
“It was chills,” said Wanda Marker, who is on the board of the nonprofit working to have DeDecker’s sculpture, called “Every Word We Utter,” placed in the nation’s capitol. Marker, Debbie Bakel, also on the board, DeDecker and her husband, Kyle Dalabetta, watched the vote live online Wednesday.
In a markup in the U.S. House Judiciary Committee last week, members approved an amendment from U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse to the NO BAN Act that would overturn President Donald Trump’s executive order from January to restrict visas to four African countries.
On Jan. 29, Congressmen Joe Neguse and Francis Rooney introduced the Climate Resilient Communities Act to Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District. The bipartisan piece of legislation was inspired by emergency management officials, according to an announcement from Neguse’s campaign..
Neguse said the Climate Resilient Communities Act provides a way for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to factor in climate impacts and risks into building codes and standards “to ensure that our communities are climate resilient and equipped for the future.”
Coloradans in Congress invited several guests to President Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night in Washington, D.C. Colorado representatives used the invitation to draw attention to issues including gun violence and veteran suicide.