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The legislation would repeal the grant-matching requirement for states to receive election security funding under the CARES Act
The request seeks to fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund and address the growing maintenance backlog on public lands
Democrats in Congress are hoping to rectify what they call an error in the $2 trillion COVID-19 aid package that makes essential election funding inaccessible to some states and a headache to procure for others.
“We’re in this together.” A phrase we’ve heard and repeated often since the COVID-19 crisis began. And it is certainly true — we are in this together, and will get through this as a community, state, and country — together.
Colorado’s institutions of higher learning are facing a financial shortfall of $274 million related to COVID-19 Pandemic
Congressman Neguse led a letter to House and Senate Leadership, alongside Senator Elizabeth Warren, Representatives Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib calling for $11.5 billion in Emergency Solution Grants to be included in the next Coronavirus aid package
Washington D.C.— Today, Congressman Neguse, along with Congressman Ted Lieu, Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Senator Kamala Harris, sent a letter to House and Senate leadership calling for provisions from the Price Gouging Prevention Act to be included in the next COVID-19 stimulus package. The legislation, introduced by the group a few weeks ago protects against price gouging during health emergencies and natural disasters by establishing a bright-line rule against price increases of 10 percent or higher on essential consumer goods.
An affordable way to send the mail is as fiscally sound as a penny saved is a penny earned.
"The U.S. Postal Service has been a bedrock service ingrained in our society for more than two centuries, with Benjamin Franklin serving as the first postmaster general in 1775," U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse said Tuesday.
As Congress was getting ready to pass the latest round of coronavirus relief last month, Rep. Joe Neguse of Colorado noticed a problem for his district back home: nine of his 10 counties were too small to get any of the $150 billion set aside in the bill to help state and local governments. Governments representing less than 500,000 people were not eligible to access emergency aid to offset the costs that states, counties and cities have been racking up during the coronavirus crisis.
The bill is a companion to legislation introduced in the Senate by Colorado Senator Michael Bennet
Washington D.C.— Today, Congressman Joe Neguse introduced legislation which would increase the maximum Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefit by 15 percent and ensure economic stability for millions of vulnerable Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic and future economic downturns.