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A new congressional committee on climate change will have its first hearing outside Washington when it meets next month in Boulder.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, a Lafayette Democrat who represents Boulder, said Monday that the committee, which he is a member of, will talk about clean energy transitions in the city Aug. 1.
A special committee established by congressional Democrats to tackle climate change will convene in Boulder next month for its first field hearing. Members of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis will meet in Boulder on Thursday, August 1, for a hearing focused on the transition to renewable energy, the committee announced today, July 15. First-year Representative Joe Neguse, whose district includes Boulder, was one of eight Democrats appointed to the committee in February.
CLEAR CREEK COUNTY, Colo. (CBS4) – Today, Congressman Joe Neguse announced a FEMA grant will help rebuild the Lower Beaver Brook Dam in Clear Creek County. The dam is more than 100 years old.
The grant, worth $3,987,750, will fund a new concrete gravity dam to replace the highly-hazardous 114-year-old rockfill embankment dam. The purpose is to reduce risk of a future break and any related damage to communities downstream from a burst.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse on Tuesday filed two bills aimed at protecting affordable housing and its financing — one of which Boulder leaders said would aid the city’s goal of preserving housing as permanently affordable. One of the bills would remove a requirement that a property be owned for 10 years before a federal tax credit, the low income housing tax credit, could be used to purchase the property for affordable housing.
The U.S. House finally passed a bill that would protect Dreamers from deportation. It is unlikely to ever be considered in the Senate, but Colorado’s Rep. Joe Neguse refused to treat the likely doomed American Dream and Promise Act like a statement bill.“What we have lost in the debate today, in my view, is what this bill is all about at its core,” Neguse said addressing a rowdy House floor. “I rise today not just as a member of this body, not just as a proud American, but as a son of immigrants, a son of African refugees.
Fed up with inaction on gun control in Washington, Congressman Joe Neguse, a Democrat, assembled a first-of-its kind meeting in Colorado as a call to action. Activists believe Colorado can be a model to further gun legislation.
“To me, this is a statement to the testament that people are speaking the truth to power,” said Neguse.
Neguse was at the meeting that included two fathers who lost their sons to gun violence, state lawmakers who’ve taken on the gun lobby, and the Chair of the U.S. House Gun Violence Prevention Task Force Congressman Mike Thompson of California.
The Frisco Post Office will be renamed after fallen Flight For Life pilot Patrick Mahany at a dedication ceremony at 2 p.m. Thursday, June 6, at the Summit County Senior Center, 83 Nancy’s Place, Frisco.
Mahany died July 3, 2015, after his Flight For Life helicopter crashed into a parking lot near St. Anthony Summit Medical Center after takeoff.
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse honored former Breckenridge Councilman Mark Burke on May 10 in the U.S. House of Representatives after Burke died April 22 in Denver.
Neguse touted how Burke was renowned throughout the community for his work to help Breckenridge grow over his two terms.