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January 30, 2020

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Friday that it is curbing legal immigration from six additional countries that officials said did not meet security standards, as part of an election-year push to further restrict immigration.

Officials said immigrants from Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar, Eritrea, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania will face new restrictions in obtaining certain visas to come to the United States. But it is not a total travel ban, unlike President Donald Trump’s earlier effort that generated outrage around the world for unfairly targeting Muslims.


January 30, 2020

When President Donald Trump delivers his third State of the Union address before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, Tom Mauser will be there in the gallery, wearing the shoes of his son, Daniel Mauser, who was killed in the 1999 Columbine shooting in Colorado.

Mauser, a prominent advocate for gun violence prevention legislation, will be attending the speech as a guest of U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse, the Lafayette Democrat's office said Friday.


January 29, 2020

Washington D.C.— Today, Congressman Joe Neguse and Congressman Francis Rooney introduced the Climate Resilient Communities Act, bipartisan legislation inspired by emergency management officials in Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District to require a report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) on climate resiliency at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), including recommendations on how to improve building codes and standards that the Agency uses to prepare for climate change and address resiliency.


January 28, 2020

Loveland antiques dealer Mel Duerksen’s daughter, Christi Traeger, 23, married her high school sweetheart, Tyler Traeger, in March 2019, and in August the couple departed for Wuhan, China, to teach English at the Wuhan University of Technology.

The pair fell in love with the city and its people. They were settling in for their second semester as teachers when the coronavirus broke out in Wuhan and the Chinese government shut down travel to and from the city.


January 27, 2020

Washington D.C.— This week, Congressman Joe Neguse announced the names of over 20 nominees for U.S. Military Service Academies from Colorado’s 2nd Congressional District. This announcement followed a nomination celebration that the Congressman hosted last Friday, January 17th at the Broomfield Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) post for all district nominees.

The nominees include:

Harrison Abernathy, Lyons, nominated to U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and U.S. Naval Academy

Adam Bartoletta, Niwot, nominated to U.S. Air Force Academy

Issues: Local Issues

January 27, 2020
Newsletter

Dear Friends,

In Colorado, we do things a little bit differently. We listen to each other, we respectfully exchange views and we roll up our sleeves to find solutions that will benefit our communities, our nation and the planet. That's exactly what I've sought to accomplish since being sworn into Congress last January.


January 23, 2020

Washington D.C.—Today, Congressman Joe Neguse received a response from U.S. Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz regarding the Congressman’s bipartisan request for a Federal investigation into the April 2019 incident in which a credible gun violence threat led schools across the Front Range to close.


January 22, 2020

In between a meeting with a local news organization and a Boy Scout Troop Thursday night, U.S. Congressman Joe Neguse took to the Boulder High School stage to deliver the State of the District address.


January 22, 2020

Less than a year after a gun scare in Colorado, the Inspector General of the Department of Justice has announced it will investigate whether the feds are properly monitoring state background checks on firearm purchases.


January 22, 2020

DENVER - The Department of Justice's inspector general has ordered the FBI to audit some state gun background checks, after an inquiry from five members of Colorado's congressional delegation.

U.S. representatives, both Democrats and a Republican, voiced their concerns after a perceived school threat forced metro Denver schools to cancel classes for about half a million students in April 2019.