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Link to The Original Article U.S. Senators Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Todd Young (R-IN) have introduced the Identifying Regulatory Barriers to Housing Supply Act, legislation intended to encourage local communities to reduce burdensome zoning and development regulations. The National Multifamily Housing Council and the National Apartment Association have endorsed the… Read more »

Link to The Original Article   Employees under the age of 21 could soon become eligible to participate in their company’s 401(k) plan under bipartisan legislation recently reintroduced in the House of Representatives.  The Helping Young Americans Save for Retirement Act (H.R. 4718) was reintroduced July 23 by Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-Colo.) and cosponsored by Rep.… Read more »

Link to The Original Article Editor’s introduction: For well over a decade, the Town of Silver Cliff has been working to restore its historic zip code of 81249, which was lost in 1991 when the US Postal Service consolidated the Silver Cliff and Westcliffe Post Offices into its current location in Westcliffe. The problem was that the invention of the internet and the massive… Read more »

Link to The Original Article   On Wednesday, U.S. Reps. Mike Flood (R-Neb.) and Brittany Pettersen (D-Colo.) introduced the Identifying Regulatory Barriers to Housing Supply Act. The bipartisan measure aims to increase housing supply by encouraging local governments to examine and reduce restrictive zoning and development policies. “Housing affordability is a major… Read more »

Link to The Original Article   A Colorado congressional delegation has invited the new U.S. postmaster general to tour the state’s postal facilities. David Steiner, the former CEO of Waste Management who also sat on the FedEx board of directors, began his tenure as postmaster general this week, after the U.S. Postal Service Board of Governors appointed him to the role in May.… Read more »

Link to The Original Article   A bipartisan bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) to establish an initiative to support the development of emergency communication and tracking technologies on Monday passed the U.S. House of Representatives and advanced to the U.S. Senate for action. The Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) Codification Act, H.R. 1455, which… Read more »

Link to The Original Article   A bipartisan bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. Buddy Carter (R-GA) to establish an initiative to support the development of emergency communication and tracking technologies on Monday passed the U.S. House of Representatives and advanced to the U.S. Senate for action. The Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) Codification Act, H.R. 1455, which… Read more »

Link to The Original Article Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is now law and Colorado Democrat Brittany Pettersen, who voted against it in the US House, says elements of the bill that eliminate taxes on tips and overtime will not be enough to counter the cuts that will affect low-income Coloradans.  “These are the people who also are going to lose healthcare. They're going… Read more »

Link to The Original Article Rep. Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) recently announced that she is requesting millions of dollars in federal funding to support 15 community projects across Colorado’s 7th Congressional District including $1.5 million for Colorado Department of Corrections to help rehabilitate a closed childcare facility in Cañon City.  According to a letter Pettersen sent… Read more »

Link to The Original Article   WASHINGTON — Just one week after Texas Rep. Brandon Gill’s wife had given birth to their second child, the first-term Republican boarded a plane to Washington, D.C., to vote on a crucial markup for President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” It wasn’t Gill’s plan to return to the Capitol so soon. In fact, the 31-year-old father had left town on… Read more »