WASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the first of the appropriations government funding packages for Fiscal Year 2024, which includes $12,602,446 for 14 community projects secured by Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) that span Colorado’s 7th Congressional District. Two of these projects are located in Lake County and would provide surgical equipment for new… Read more »
WASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the first of the appropriations government funding packages for Fiscal Year 2024, which includes $12,602,446 for 14 community projects secured by Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) that span Colorado’s 7th Congressional District. One of these projects is located in Park County and would improve unsafe county roadways that… Read more »
WASHINGTON—Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the first of the appropriations government funding packages for Fiscal Year 2024, which includes $12,602,446 for 14 community projects secured by Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) that span Colorado’s 7th Congressional District. One of these projects is located in Teller County and would be used for equipment in a new… Read more »
DENVER—Today, U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) led the Colorado Democratic House Delegation in a letter to the leaders of the House Appropriations Committee, as well as the Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, over concerns with the level of funding for Head Start and Early Head Start Programs in their FY24 funding package. In the letter,… Read more »
WASHINGTON—U.S. Representatives Brittany Pettersen (D-CO), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), and Burgess Owens (R-UT) have introduced the bipartisan Empowering Learners Through Competency-Based Education Act, which will assist universities in cultivating learning environments that will allow students to learn at their own pace, called competency-based education (CBE), in an… Read more »
WASHINGTON—Following Capital One’s recent announcement that they plan to purchase Discover, today, U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07), alongside 15 of her colleagues on the House Financial Services Committee, sent a letter urging the U.S. Department of Justice and our nation’s banking regulators, including the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the… Read more »
WASHINGTON—U.S. Representatives Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) and Jason Crow (CO-06) led a group of Colorado Representatives in urging the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to continue funding the Rocky Mountain Prevention Research Center (RMPRC), which has conducted instrumental public health research in the region for nearly 20 years. The facility relies… Read more »
WASHINGTON—U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) was appointed as one of twelve Democrats to the new bipartisan Task Force on Artificial Intelligence (AI) announced today by Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries. The Task Force of 24 House members will explore how Congress can ensure America continues to lead the world in AI innovation while considering… Read more »
WASHINGTON—On Valentine’s Day, U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) is calling for the passage of her bipartisan legislation with Representative David G. Valadao (R-CA), the Online Dating Safety Act. This bill would require dating apps and services to issue fraud ban notifications to users who have interacted with a person removed from the app. The Federal Trade Commission… Read more »
WASHINGTON—Today, U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) released the following statement after voting against the Republican Israel-only supplemental appropriations bill:
“In a divided Congress defined by Republican dysfunction, we finally have a bipartisan Senate agreement on a national security bill to help address both critical immigration and border security issues, as… Read more »
