Colorado Republicans all vote for politically hot, doomed federal...
Colorado lawmakers in the U.S. House on Wednesday split along party lines on a bill that would ban nearly all late-term abortions across the country. The bill passed solidly, 242 yeas to 184 nays. In...
View ArticleTrans-Pacific Partnership fast-track is back on track
The House this morning gave President Obama another shot at the Trans-Pacific Partnership, passing an amendment that will give the President fast-track authority to negotiate the 12-nation agreement....
View ArticleColorado delegation splits on Obama’s Iran deal
In about two weeks, Congress is expected to vote on whether to back the deal regarding Iran’s nuclear weapons proposal. Congressional Democrats are beginning to announce their positions, while most...
View ArticleGuess which Colorado lawmakers voted against the winning spending bill
The U.S. House this morning approved a massive spending bill that will keep the government running until just before the 2016 election. But not all Colorado lawmakers voted for it. New Speaker of...
View ArticleColoradans react to Obama’s federal action on gun laws
President Barack Obama’s executive action to tighten gun laws received a volley of criticism from Colorado Republicans and support from Democrats. Saying Congress has failed to act on curbing gun...
View ArticleDid Darryl Glenn’s convention speech shift the US Senate race?
COLORADO SPRINGS — Not long after giving the most well-received speech at today’s GOP state convention, El Paso County Commissioner Darryl Glenn was mobbed by Republicans. “You’re like a breath of...
View ArticleMeet Misty Plowright: The trans, Trekkie tech geek vying to unseat U.S. Rep....
People like Misty Plowright don’t get elected to Congress. And that, she says, is exactly why she’s trying. The 33-year-old tech consultant is the nation’s first openly transgender candidate to win a...
View ArticleWhere Colorado officials stand on Trump’s refugee order
News of President Donald Trump temporarily slamming the borders on all refugees for 120 days— and for Syrians indefinitely— while blocking refugees from seven majority-Muslim countries has been...
View ArticleHOUSE OF CALLS: We know you want to contact your D.C. lawmakers, Colorado....
If Congress were a frat house and phone-answering staffers were the pledges, the past seven days would have basically been Hell Week. The start of Donald Trump’s presidency showed Americans want...
View ArticleLit fuse: First lawsuit this election cycle drops over petitions in Colorado....
A lawsuit that challenges the petition-gathering tactics of a candidate for Congress in Colorado might have lit the fuse for another ballot-access bomb in the race for governor. This week, five voters...
View ArticleLittwin: It’s a new election cycle, but with Stapleton’s blunder, it looks...
As Jimmy Breslin wrote of the stumbling 1962 Mets, I write of the blundering 2018 Colorado Republican Party: Can’t anyone here play this game? Walker Stapleton, the so-called frontrunner in the GOP...
View ArticleFederal judge rules six-term GOP congressman Doug Lamborn should be on the...
UPDATE: A week later, a federal judge weighed in and ruled Lamborn should be placed on the June 26 GOP primary ballot for Congress. Lamborn argued the residency requirements for signature gatherers are...
View ArticleColorado’s Congressional incumbents easily hold on to their seats
Veteran Congresswoman Diana DeGette easily fended off progressive insurgent Saira Rao in the Democratic primary for Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, claiming about 72 percent of the vote....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Both parties seek political leverage from Mueller report Congressional...
WASHINGTON – The conclusions of the long-awaited report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller have many Republicans in Congress declaring victory for President Trump. But the four Republicans in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Colorado’s DeGette and Neguse: ‘It is time’ for impeachment inquiry The two...
WASHINGTON — Colorado representatives are among U.S. House lawmakers pushing for an inquiry into impeaching President Donald Trump as congressional Democrats grow increasingly frustrated by his refusal...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Move BLM headquarters to Colorado? Environmental groups pan proposal
WASHINGTON — A majority of Colorado’s Congress members support a plan to move the national headquarters of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to Colorado or another western state, but many...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Massive Colorado wilderness bill advances in U.S. House
WASHINGTON — Sweeping legislation that would preserve vast swaths of wilderness and recreation areas in Colorado advanced in the U.S. House on Wednesday. The House Natural Resources Committee approved...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Littwin: Cory Gardner makes his declaration of complete and utter dependence
These are words I rarely use in this order, but Cory Gardner’s latest political move has really surprised me. If you haven’t heard, Gardner has caved as one of the last seven or eight Senate Republican...
View Article