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In Tancredo’s Wake, 6th CD Looks Beyond a Single Issue

Tom Tancredo, the most divisive politician in Colorado and an embarrassment in the U.S. House of Representatives, will not run for re-election. Hallelujah. Let the...

The Congressional Crib Sheet

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Colorado’s Horses: In the Stable or on the Table?

Controversy rages with the slaughter of more than 31,000 unwanted horses this year. While Congress considers legal remedies, vets and livestock owners line up...

Venture Capitalist Tells Congress Tax Break Not Fair

Bill Stanfill's business associates wanted to know what it would take to keep him from testifying to Congress. The Denver venture capitalist answered simply: Nothing could...

House Members Throw Tancredo a Bone

Rep. Tom Tancredo may have surprised even himself this morning when the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of a Homeland Security appropriations...

Three No’s From Colorado on Clean Drinking Water

Let's visit Washington D.C. where our Colorado Republican Congressional delegation of Marilyn Musgrave, Tom Tancredo and Doug Lamborn make the weighty decisions for the...

Tancredo: Please Don’t Smoke ‘Em, If You Got ‘Em

The Hill reported today that a complaint was lodged against Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo for smoking a cigar in his office because "the smoke...

The Nays Go Nowhere

The three Republican Congressional comrades from Colorado, Marilyn Musgrave, Doug Lamborn and Tom Tancredo have taken Nancy Reagan's advice to "Just Say No" to...

Colorado’s “Just Say No” Congressional Delegation

Now that the Colorado Republican Congressional delegation is a minority, it seems that Doug Lamborn, Marilyn Musgrave and Tom Tancredo will be using their...

Romanoff to Pelosi: ‘Play Fair’

As the 110th Congress prepares to convene on Thursday, NPR's Weekend Edition host Linda Wertheimer talked to Colorado Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff...
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