Press Releases
Washington, DC—Today, Congressman Joe Neguse sent a letter to Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Schumer that calls for increased community violence intervention (CVI) program funding to be included in the final version of the Build Back Better Act. The letter highlights the negative emotional and economic impacts of the gun violence epidemic and proposes a robust community-based grant program to support innovative violence prevention strategies aimed at young people and high-risk demographics.
Washington D.C.— On Thursday, September 16th, Congressman Joe Neguse will host a first-of-its-kind Affordable Housing Summit. The event will feature two public listening sessions, to discuss affordable housing and homelessness across Colorado.
Washington, DC—Today, Congressman Joe Neguse, Vice Chair of the Subcommittee on Immigration and Citizenship, led members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) in sending a letter to Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Schumer that calls for a pathway to citizenship to be included in the final version of the reconciliation bill, also known as the Build Back Better Act.
Washington D.C.—Congressman Joe Neguse, Chair of the U.S. Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, announced today that he has successfully included funding to protect 200,000 acres in the Thompson Divide as a provision in the Build Back Better Act. The language he added to the legislative text reported out of the Natural Resources Committee provides $500,000 to acquire leases from willing sellers to protect the Greater Thompson Area from oil and gas development.
Washington, D.C. — Today, Congressman Joe Neguse announced that he has secured over $50 billion to establish a 21st Century Climate Conservation Corps. The funding meets his vision for the program, which proposed $10 billion for workers and jobs to launch the program and an additional $40 billion to fund community resilience and wildfire preparedness projects through the Department of Interior and the U.S. Forest Service.
Washington, D.C. — Today, Congressman Joe Neguse announced that his Veterans Job Training Act, legislation to expand job training and placement services for homeless veterans, will be considered in a Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on September 21. Specifically the legislation would reauthorize the successful Homeless Veterans Reintegration Program (HVRP) through 2025. Administered by the Department of Labor, the program is the only federal grant program which focuses exclusively on competitive employment for homeless veterans.
Washington D.C.—Today, Congressman Joe Neguse, who serves as Vice-Chair of the House Immigration Subcommittee, and Congresswoman Ilhan Omar sent a letter to the Biden Administration urging establishment of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for multiple African countries experiencing humanitarian crises. The letter urges TPS status be offered to individuals from Ethiopia, Mauritania and Cameroon, as previously requested by Amnesty International and other organizations in August of 2021.
Washington D.C.—Congressman Joe Neguse, Co-Chair of the Congressional Caucus on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and Congresswoman Sharice Davids have introduced the Native American Entrepreneurial Opportunity Act of 2021 to give Native American small businesses a seat at the table within the Small Business Administration (SBA).
Leaders of Bipartisan Wildfire Caucus come together to help families escape, recover from this year’s particularly devastating wildfire season
The proposal to expand Medicare to at least 23 million people is backed by a broad coalition of House members