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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.
In 2019, Congressman Neguse led floor action as the bill was ushered through the Congress
Washington, D.C.—Today, Congressman Joe Neguse, who serves as Vice-Chair of the Medicare-for-All Caucus, joined Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal and over 100 of his Democratic colleagues to unveil the Medicare for All Act of 2021. He released the following statement on the introduction:
In November 2020, Congressman Neguse called for review of the FTC’s pharmaceutical merger review process to tackle competition concerns
Washington D.C.— Today, Congressman Joe Neguse applauded the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC’s) announcement to launch a multilateral working group to build a new approach to pharmaceutical mergers.
The Climate Resilient Communities Act will strengthen infrastructure and help communities stay strong in the wake of natural disasters