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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 »

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 »

Link to The Original Article   WASHINGTON D.C. — A Supreme Court decision Thursday bolsters efforts by conservative states to defund Planned Parenthood and could have impacts on the rights of patients who use Medicaid. In a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the justices ruled that patients do not have a right to sue states over how they manage Medicaid, essentially… Read more »

Link to The Original Article   The U.S. House of Representatives on Monday unanimously passed a bipartisan bill sponsored by U.S. Rep. David Valadao (R-CA) that aims to help reduce online crime and keep people safe from online scammers. “Millions of Americans use online dating platforms to connect with romantic partners, but unfortunately, they’ve also become a way for scammers to… Read more »

Link to The Original Article Rep. Brittany Pettersen, a Democrat who represents Colorado's 7th Congressional District, is among the lawmakers who is demanding that presidents seek congressional approval before moving forward with any warring action.   Read more »

Link to The Original Article   Colorado Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D) questioned Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on interest rates and the economy. Powell said that the Federal Reserve is in no hurry to lower interest rates despite multiple calls from President Trump to drop them. Testifying before the House Financial Services Committee on Tuesday, Powell stood by recent… Read more »

Link to The Original Article It's not something you see every day at congressional hearing on the economy and interest rates. As members of Congress grilled Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday -- one lawmaker asked questions with her tousled-haired 5-month-old baby squirming in her lap. Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen brought her son Sam to the hearing and somehow… Read more »

Link to The Original Article The long, narrow swath of central Colorado that makes up the 7th Congressional District represented by Brittany Pettersen gets increasingly red on the southern half, which is also far less populous. But that has not kept Pettersen, a Lakewood Democrat, away. In fact, during her first term in Congress, she opened her second state office in Cañon City, the… Read more »

Link to The Original Article Members of Colorado's congressional delegation applauded President Donald Trump's military strike on Iranian nuclear sites, while the state's Democratic lawmakers expressed worries about direct U.S. involvement in the region's conflicts and said the president should have consulted Congress before the attack. Soon after news broke late Saturday that U.S.… Read more »

Link to The Original Article Four Democratic senators and six Democratic representatives have sent a letter to Palantir Technologies' CEO demanding information about reports that the Denver-based company is creating a government-wide database containing sensitive taxpayer data, raising questions about potential Privacy Act violations. The lawmakers' letter states the Department of… Read more »