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When I was three, my mom packed me and my little brother into the car and drove us to a restaurant about an hour from where we lived. We were going to meet my dad, who recently entered treatment at Project Turnabout, then a fledgling addiction recovery center in rural Minnesota. He had just been granted permission for a family visit and, despite the… Read more »
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South Carolina Rep. Jim Clyburn has been a member of Congress since 1993. But he’s been a father even longer.
Clyburn and his late wife, Emily, shared three daughters, four grandchildren and one great-grandchild. So it made sense that the 84-year-old congressman called on his paternal instincts on Tuesday, June 10, when he stepped… Read more »
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Forest management is a big issue for Colorado, especially as the threat of wildfires has grown. So when Sen. John Hickenlooper heard that Republican Rep. Bruce Westerman, chair of the House Natural Resources committee and a certified forester, was working on a forest management bill, Hickenlooper wanted to talk with him.
“A half-hour meeting turned into… Read more »
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In the fight for better policies for mothers and families, Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-Colo.) has also had to fight to have her own voice heard on Capitol Hill.
Last October, five months pregnant with her second child, Pettersen proposed a change to the House Rules Committee for “a narrow exception to the prohibition on proxy voting” that would… Read more »
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As the spending plan known as the One, Big, Beautiful Bill makes its way through the U.S. Senate, new polling is out here at home, giving insight into how some Coloradans feel about programs that could see cuts under the proposal.
The poll by Healthier Colorado shows that support for programs like SNAP and Medicaid is strong among Colorado… Read more »
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The U.S. House on Monday passed a resolution introduced by Republican U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans that condemns the June 1 antisemitic attack on Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall by an Egyptian national who was in the country illegally.
Evans, who represents Colorado’s competitive 8th Congressional District, criticized the state’s “radical leftist… Read more »
Last month, in the dead of night, Republicans passed their sweeping budget proposal, and it is now moving through the Senate. It slashes Medicaid, guts food assistance programs, and raises health care costs for working families, all while adding trillions to the deficit to fund tax breaks for billionaires. The legislation will rip health care away from 16 million… Read more »
My heart breaks for the victims of the attack in Boulder and the Jewish community. Terror attacks like this one don’t occur in a vacuum – words matter. A rise in antisemitic rhetoric across the globe has paved the way for these acts of violence. We must unequivocally condemn these heinous acts and reject the dangerous beliefs that fuel them.
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Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen’s bill – the Support for Patients and Communities Act – to reauthorize funding for critical prevention, treatment, and recovery substance use disorder (SUD) programs.
Pettersen’s own mother struggled with a decades-long battle with addiction after being overprescribed opioids. Inspired by her… Read more »
