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Democratic Rep. Joe Neguse, whose district includes Boulder where 10 people were killed in a mass shooting Monday, said he supports reinstating the federal ban on assault weapons.
“And I'm a co-sponsor of a bill that's pending before the House Judiciary Committee, a committee on which I serve,” Neguse told Colorado Matters.
Colorado Rep. Joe Neguse said mass shootings "cannot be our new normal" in the wake of the Boulder grocery store shooting that left 10 dead.
"We should be able to feel safe in our grocery stores," Neguse, a Democratic member of Congress since 2019, said. "We should be able to feel safe in our schools and in our movie theaters and in our communities. We need to see a change because we have lost far too many lives."
Lafayette, CO — Today Congressman Joe Neguse issued the following statement following the shooting at King Soopers in Boulder, Colorado:
Lafayette, CO—On Thursday March 25th, Congressman Joe Neguse will host his annual State of the District Town Halls via Zoom. He will host two virtual events, one for the Front Range, and one for the mountain communities in the 2nd Congressional District.
Constituents may register to attend at neguseevents.com or here. Media may RSVP to Sally Tucker at Sally.Tucker@mail.house.gov.
Washington D.C.— Today, Congressman Joe Neguse (D-CO) and Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) introduced bipartisan legislation to provide funding to Colorado’s mountain communities and rural areas across the United States, through funds for rural schools, emergency response and road maintenance. The bill provides supplemental federal funding to counties across the United States that are home to large areas of tax-exempt National Forests and Federal Lands.
Colorado Congressman Joe Neguse introduced legislation to reauthorize a federal program that has provided Grand County over $1 million for school building improvements.
The Secure Rural Schools program, which began in 2000, gives school districts where national forest takes up a large portion of the property in the area funding to supplement the lower property taxes.
The program had been authorized to give funding through April of this year. Neguse’s legislation would extend the program through 2022.
An unprecedented moment warrants an urgent and unprecedented response.
The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting economic crisis have left Colorado hurting. Hundreds of thousands of Coloradans have been infected and more than 6,000 tragically lost their lives to the virus. Colorado’s unemployment rate is still more than double what it was pre-pandemic. Forty percent of Coloradans are going hungry and thousands of small businesses have been shuttered or are on the verge of closing.
Washington D.C.— Today, Congressman Joe Neguse, Chair of the U.S. House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands, and Senator Ron Wyden, a Senior Member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, sent a letter to President Joe Biden, requesting that funds for a Civilian Climate Corps be included in the FY2022 budget and that their joint legislative effort, the 21st Century Conservation Corps Act, be included in the upcoming Build Back Better infrastructure plan.
As first Coloradan to serve as Chairman, Neguse sets his first hearing as Chair to discuss the 21st Century Conservation Corps and efforts to Build Back Better in Rocky Mountain West
The first African-American to head the US House Subcommittee on National Parks, Forest and Public Lands, Rep. Joe Neguse of Colorado is crafting an agenda aimed at the nation’s parks, forests and public lands. Also at the forefront, Neguse says, he wants to tackle western wildfires.
With the unveiling of a new plan for “Restoring Our Lands and Communities,” the 36-year-old congressman is set to chair his first subcommittee hearing next week.