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His amendment calls for a $5 million increase for large-scale community-driven restoration projects
The plan calls for the study and implementation of carbon sequestration solutions to help curb the climate crisis
Today, Congressman Joe Neguse joined Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Natural Resources Chairman Raúl Grijalva and bill sponsor Congressman Joe Cunningham for a bill enrollment ceremony for the Great American Outdoors Act. The legislation would fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund at $900 million and invest funds to address the over $20 billion public lands maintenance backlog.
Washington D.C. – Today, Congressman Joe Neguse’s measure to repeal President Trump’s African travel ban has passed through the House of Representatives. President Trump added Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Nigeria, Sudan, and Tanzania to his Muslim Travel Ban in late January. Today, the NO BAN Act passed through the House, and along with it, Congressman Neguse’s measure to include the latest ban for African countries.
Washington D.C. —Today, Congressman Joe Neguse helped secure passage of the Great American Outdoors Act out of the U.S. House of Representatives. The legislation would fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund at $900 million and invest $9.5 billion in the public lands maintenance backlog.
Washington D.C.— An amendment introduced by Congressman Joe Neguse and Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger which would require the Department of Defense to conduct reporting on climate change threats to national security has passed the U.S. House of Representatives as a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
The U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday passed the Colorado Outdoor Recreation and Economy (CORE) Act, sponsored by U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, who represents eastern Eagle County, as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act.
The CORE Act, which would protect large swaths of Colorado public lands as wilderness, has already passed the House as a stand-alone piece of legislation. U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Colorado Democrat, will now try to get a CORE Act amendment passed in the upper chamber. His office issued this press release on Tuesday:
When the Trump administration updated its travel-ban list to include the East African nation of Eritrea this winter, the battle that U.S. Representative Joe Neguse had been waging against previous iterations of Trump's travel ban suddenly became personal.
Washington D.C. – Today, Congressman Joe Neguse co-sponsored Representatives Barbara Lee and Mark Pocan’s Resolution to decrease the Pentagon’s overall budget and instead prioritize spending for diplomacy at home and abroad. The Resolution, H.R. 1003, calls in-part for significant cuts to the Pentagon’s budget and reallocation of funds to programs that keep the public safe. Last year’s $738 billion National Defense Authorization Act was the largest on record, coming at the expense of health care, education, infrastructure spending, and public health research.
the CORE Act passes the House for a 2nd time as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act