WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. Michael F. Bennet, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: Denver -- Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper urged U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Pete Buttigieg to deploy all available resources following the closure of U.S. Highway 50, a critical East-West corridor for Colorado. With this closure, many of Colorado's Western Slope residents face six hours of travel time for a drive that normally takes 75 minutes. "We wr  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Senators John Hickenlooper and Marsha Blackburn introduced the bipartisan American Music Tourism Act to support and increase music tourism by requiring the Commerce Department to implement a plan to increase and attract domestic and international visitors to venues nationwide. "Music venues are keepers of our culture. From Red Rocks to the Grand Ole Opry, and hundreds of small venues acr  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado, chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, issued the following news release: U.S. Representative Doug Lamborn (R-CO), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces, delivered the following opening remarks at a hearing on the Fiscal Year 2025 budget request for nuclear forces and atomic energy defense activities and programs. Rep. Lamborn's remarks as prepared for delivery: The subcommittee meets today to revie  more

WASHINGTON, April 30 -- Rep. Yadira Caraveo, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: In a letter to the White House Tuesday afternoon, Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo, MD (CO-08) pressed President Biden to grant a waiver to Colorado from the reformulated gasoline (RFG) mandate due to be announced on May 1. The Biden Administration's pending RFG mandate for the Denver Metro/North Front Range nonattainment area would "hurt Coloradans at the gas pump and lead to unnecessary environmental har  more

WASHINGTON, May 1 -- Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado, issued the following news release: Congressman Doug Lamborn, Chairman of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee, delivered the following opening remarks at a hearing on the United States' strategic forces posture on the Fiscal Year 2025 budget request for nuclear forces and atomic energy defense activities (STR). Congressman Lamborn's remarks as prepared: The subcommittee meets today to review the fiscal year 2025 budget requests of the Departmen  more

WASHINGTON, April 29 -- Rep. Yadira Caraveo, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: The U.S. House of Representatives today passed the Fire Weather Development Act, a bipartisan bill co-led by Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo (CO-08), Congressman Mike Garcia (CA-27), and Congresswoman Young Kim (CA-40). The legislation would provide NOAA with enhanced capability to improve fire weather forecasting, detection, and collaboration to better support communities vulnerable to wildfires. The bill   more