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A plan to protect about 400,000 acres of Colorado public land passed a committee vote in the U.S. House this week, a key step toward becoming law. The Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy Act – or the CORE act – was introduced by Colorado Democrats Sen. Michael Bennet and Rep. Joe Neguse in January. The House Natural Resources Committee passed the bill by a 23-15 vote on Wednesday, It was the first major Colorado public lands bill to pass a House committee in more than a decade, according to Neguse's office. The CORE act will now go to the full House for consideration.
Town halls can get rather tense in today’s polarized political climate. But Rep. Joe Neguse’s town halls come with a twist. The Democrat who represent’s Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District is injecting volunteerism into the gatherings.
Before talking politics, he and his constituents do public service.
“It’s something that seems to have been lost in our politics is this concept of service,” he said.
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.