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A bill U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen plans to introduce in Congress will allow hospitals across the country to get reimbursed for distributing opioid overdose-reversal treatments to people at risk for an overdose.
Pettersen, a Lakewood Democrat who is vocal about her mother’s experience recovering from an opioid addiction stemming from a pain-management… Read more »
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DENVER — Advocates across the country are hoping for change when it comes to preventing overdose deaths.
"This is a public health emergency that demands a public health approach. Doubling down on the worst ideas of the drug war, which are incarceration and criminalization, has never worked. That will only increase overdose deaths," said Lisa… Read more »
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Colorado Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen says 90% of fentanyl in Colorado and across the United States wasn't smuggled across the border but brought in by U.S. citizens at airports and seaports or delivered by the U.S. Postal Service.
She says the government should screen all mail for fentanyl.
"Contrary to the rhetoric that people see at the… Read more »
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On Monday, 171 members of Congress signed a letter opposing the inclusion of the EATS Act in the 2023 farm bill. Four members of Colorado’s Congressional delegation — U.S. Reps. Joe Neguse, Diana DeGette, Brittany Pettersen and Jason Crow — all signed the letter sent Monday to Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, R-Pa., chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture,… Read more »
DENVER—Yesterday, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) joined U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07), Broomfield Mayor Guyleen Castriotta, State Senator Faith Winter, and State Representative William Lindstedt to tour and volunteer at the Broomfield FISH Food Pantry and Family Resource Center in Colorado’s 7th Congressional District, highlighting the challenges of… Read more »
DENVER—U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) joined Major Robert C. Churchill, during a ceremony held in her Lakewood office this week, to posthumously award the Purple Heart Medal, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with one Bronze Service Star, the World War II Victory Medal, and the Combat Infantryman Badge to the family of Private First Class Simon Cardenas, a… Read more »
DENVER—U.S. Representatives Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) and Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) are introducing a bipartisan bill alongside U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO) and Ted Budd (R-NC) named the Connecting Our Neighbors to Networks and Ensuring Competitive Telecommunications (CONNECT) Act of 2023 to reform the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) ReConnect Loan and Grant Program.… Read more »
DENVER—U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) sent two letters aimed at addressing concerns with postal service in Colorado’s Seventh Congressional District. The first is a bipartisan letter she sent alongside Representatives Jared Huffman (CA-02), Melanie Stansbury (NM-01), and others to United States Postmaster Louis DeJoy and Postal Regulatory Commission Chairman Michael… Read more »
DENVER—Yesterday, U.S. Representatives Brittany Pettersen and Yadira Caraveo joined U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and Colorado Governor Jared Polis to celebrate the upcoming one-year anniversary of the Inflation Reduction Act’s passage and to highlight the law’s landmark investments in clean energy, domestic manufacturing, local economies, and the American people.
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The newly minted congresswoman has targeted Medicaid and treatment reforms.
In one of her first major speeches since she arrived in Congress, U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen stood before the House and talked about her mom.
“Like so many Americans, my mom has struggled with an opioid addiction,” Pettersen, a former state senator who now represents central Colorado,… Read more »
