WASHINGTON, Aug. 3 -- Rep. Joseph Neguse, D-Colorado, issued the following news release on Aug. 2, 2024: Yesterday evening, House Assistant Minority Leader Joe Neguse, along with Senator Michael Bennet, Senator John Hickenlooper, and Representative Brittany Pettersen, requested that FEMA Administrator Deanne Criswell provide additional federal assistance for the State of Colorado to respond to fires burning across the Front Range, including the Alexander Mountain Fire burning in Larimer County   more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 -- Sen. Michael F. Bennet, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, alongside U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), applauded the Senate's unanimous and bipartisan passage of the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act. "Thousands of abandoned mines in Colorado and across the American West threaten our watersheds and pollute our ecosystems," said Bennet. "I'm grateful for the strong bipa  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- Sen. Michael F. Bennet, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: Denver Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined U.S. Senators Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) to introduce a resolution recognizing Edmundo Gonzalez Urrutia as the President-elect of Venezuela. Yesterday, after the Senators introduced their resolution, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken also recognized Gonzalez Urrutia a  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon, issued the following news release: USDA's New Water Savings Commodity Program Follows Call from Oregon, Colorado, New Mexico, California, Arizona, Nevada, & Montana Lawmakers in April Oregon's U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden welcomed the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) announcement of $400 million to address drought through investments at the irrigation district scale in 12 states across the American West. The Central Oregon I  more

WASHINGTON, Aug. 2 -- Rep. Yadira Caraveo, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: WESTMINSTER, CO Today, Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo M.D. announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) will provide two new investments to protect the health of farmworkers at heightened risk of exposure to highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) in Colorado, among other affected states. These investments come after Congresswoman Caraveo led the Colorado House Democrat Delegation i  more