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Last year’s record-setting wildfire season in Colorado was a wake-up call. The Cameron Peak and East Troublesome Fires, which burned nearly 400,000 acres combined, threatened homes, businesses, wildlife, and local water supplies.
In the wake of these fires, our communities were left with a massive recovery price tag and dwindling federal resources to restore severely burned soils, rebuild homes, protect watersheds and prepare for future wildfires that we know will follow this year’s unprecedented drought and heat.
Washington, D.C.— Yesterday, Congressman Joe Neguse secured passage of several key-climate resiliency priorities as the House passed the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The plan includes investments in wildfire management and climate resiliency, including his Joint-Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership Proposal, upgrades to America’s power grid to help communities prepare for climate related natural disasters and an extension of the Secure Rural Schools Program, a proposal Rep. Neguse has been pushing since he started in Congress.
For the first time in four years, Ingrid Encalada Latorre will get to go to the park with her three children, walk the aisles of the grocery store or go on a hike and take in mountain views.
Encalada Latorre, a native of Peru, has been living in sanctuary at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Boulder with her three American-born children since 2017. If she stepped outside the church, at 5001 Pennsylvania Ave., she faced the possibility of being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials.
The legislation would prohibit individuals convicted of violent misdemeanors from purchasing firearms
Washington D.C.— Today, two provisions led by Congressman Joe Neguse were considered in the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Waters, Oceans and Wildlife.
Suzanne Fountain was shopping in aisle 10 of the King Soopers on Table Mesa Drive on March 22, when a gunman opened fire.
Fountain, 59, was one of 10 people who died that day.
“A beacon was put out that day. It was absolutely senseless,” her sister Jen Macaskill said. “She was grocery shopping. We all go grocery shopping. Why is it that we can’t be safe in the grocery store?”
U.S. Rep. Joe Neguse will introduce legislation in the House Thursday to prohibit people convicted of violent misdemeanors from purchasing a firearm for five years, a measure the Lafayette Democrat said could help prevent tragedies like the Boulder King Soopers massacre from happening again.
Bringing Republicans and Democrats together at this hyper-partisan moment to pass substantial legislation has been enormously challenging. But it is still possible.
Washington, D.C. — Today, Congressman Joe Neguse, announced that he has secured robust funding to establish a 21st Century Climate Conservation Corps and make major investments in America’s forests in the updated Build Back Better Plan. The funding included in today’s updated text meets his vision for the program he’s been pushing for over a year to launch the 21st Century Climate Conservation Corps and to fund community resilience and wildfire preparedness projects through the Department of Interior and the U.S. Forest Service.
Washington D.C.— The deadline for Congressman Joe Neguse’s Congressional App Challenge is approaching. Application submissions are due on November 1st. The challenge is open to middle and high school students of all skill-levels across Colorado’s 2nd congressional district and is designed to encourage student participation in computer science and coding. Participants have the opportunity to code a unique app individually or in teams of up to 4 participants and compete against their peers.