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Washington, D.C.— Today, Congressman Joe Neguse (D-CO), Congressman David McKinley (R-WV) Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) introduced a resolution calling for November 9th to be recognized as National Microtia and Atresia Awareness Day.
The legislation would close existing gaps on the CDT, expand access to the outdoors and boost mountain economies
Washington D.C.— Today, Congressman Joe Neguse, the only member of the Select Committee on the Climate Crisis from the Rocky Mountain West, arrived in Glasgow, Scotland for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26). Neguse is part of a small delegation led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, which includes House Committee Chairs, members of the Climate Crisis Committee and others. The delegation represents a small contingent in Congress committed to taking bold, meaningful action to tackle the climate crisis.
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.