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Washington D.C – Today, Congressman Joe Neguse voted to pass H.R. 5, the Equality Act, to ensure that all LGBTQ Americans are granted the full protections guaranteed by federal civil rights law. The Equality Act extends anti-discrimination protections to LGBTQ Americans regarding employment, education, access to credit, jury service, federal funding, housing and public accommodations.
Washington D.C.— Congressman Joe Neguse has secured a hearing in the House Natural Resources Committee on legislation that would install Jane DeDecker’s Every Word We Utter sculpture as the first outdoor monument for the women’s suffrage movement in Washington D.C. This sculpture features Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton with her daughter Harriot Stanton Blatch, Sojourner Truth, Alice Paul, and Ida B. Wells.
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Representatives Joe Neguse (D-CO), Mike Levin (D-CA) and Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) introduced the Zero-Emission Vehicles Act of 2019, which presents an aggressive plan for transitioning the United States to 100% zero-emission vehicles. The Zero-Emission Vehicles Act is also cosponsored by Senators Kamala Harris (D-CA), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Brian Schatz (D-HI) in the Senate.
Washington D.C.— Today, Representative Joe Neguse (D-CO), with the support of Representatives Elise Stefanik (R-NY) and Marcia Fudge (D-OH), and U.S. Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Johnny Isakson (R-GA), introduced bipartisan bicameral legislation to help more community college transfer students earn degrees. The Reverse Transfer Efficiency Act of 2019 would ensure students who have transferred from community college to a four-year institution can obtain an associate’s degree with the reverse transfer of class credits.
WASHINGTON—House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), U.S. Representatives John Katko (R-NY) and Joe Neguse (D-CO), and U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) today introduced a bicameral bill that would give Americans overwhelmed by student loan debt the option of obtaining meaningful bankruptcy relief.
Dear Friends,
Washington D.C.—Following the House Judiciary Committee’s vote today to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt of Congress, Congressman Joe Neguse, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement:
Washington D.C.— Following the school shooting at the STEM school in Highlands Ranch, yesterday, Congressman Joe Neguse released the following statement:
“Andrea and I are completely heartbroken by yesterday’s events at the STEM School in Highlands Ranch. Not a day goes by when our world is not shattered by yet another senseless act of gun violence.
Washington D.C.— Following meetings with city representatives in Fort Collins, Loveland and Boulder, Representative Joe Neguse (CO-02) has thrown his support behind House Bill 530, the Accelerating Broadband Development by Empowering Local Communities Act of 2019. Representative Neguse was the first member of the Colorado delegation to sign onto this bill.
Washington D.C. — In response to cloudy Department of Justice guidelines, Congressman Neguse is leading a letter with democratic members of the Colorado Delegation urging Attorney General Barr and Acting Secretary McAleenan to retract current guidelines which bars the naturalization of legal permanent residents who have been employed in the legal Cannabis industry and replace it with a policy more consistent with the Cole Memorandum.