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Colorado Dems ask Obama to help move nuke worker compensation bill

Colorado legislators headed by Sen. Mark Udall asked the federal government Friday to help former nuclear weapons workers made ill by exposure to radiation...

A moderate lawmaker, candidate Romanoff has moved left

DENVER - Andrew Romanoff, former speaker of the Colorado State House and now a candidate for U.S. Senate, likes to say he's more progressive...

Bennet bashes obstructionist politics as gridlocked Senate shutters for holiday

The U.S. Senate shuttered Thursday afternoon for the 4th of July holiday after failing for weeks to pass unemployment insurance extension and condemning hundreds...

Romanoff scores endorsement from Bill Clinton

Former President Bill Clinton on Tuesday endorsed Andrew Romanoff in Colorado's U.S. Senate Democratic primary. Clinton celebrates Romanoff as a longtime Democratic Party stalwart,...

Where wilderness is concerned, the Buck apparently stops in Weld County

Weld County district attorney and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck sat down with former Colorado Independent reporter Ernest Luning (now with the Colorado...

Romanoff slams Bennet, Udall for voting to extend Big Oil tax...

DENVER-- At a press conference Thursday, Democratic U.S. Senate hopeful Andrew Romanoff called out his opponent Sen. Michael Bennet as well as Democratic Sen. Mark Udall for voting down an amendment that would have closed tax loopholes through which the oil industry evades paying $35 billion to the government each year. Colorado's Senators said they supported the proposal in theory but that the amendment was written poorly and would have unnecessarily penalized small oil companies and cost Colorado jobs.

Romanoff champions gay rights, says he’s most progressive candidate

DENVER-- Speaking to a room of about 30 people at popular and gay-friendly restaurant Hamburger Mary's Wednesday, Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff said that, unlike his primary opponent, Sen. Michael Bennet, he believed gay marriage was a federal question that shouldn't be left to the states to decide. Romanoff said has been a long champion of gay rights. He said he was not only more progressive than Bennet on this and other issues, but that he was the most progressive candidate running for national office in the country.

Bennet, Romanoff showcase different styles at forum

DENVER— If winning the Democratic nomination for U.S Senate comes down to who seems more passionate on the stump, challenger Andrew Romanoff will win in a landslide. If it comes down to money or friends in high places or a sense of steady competence, the nod might well go to incumbent Michael Bennet, who was appointed to the seat to fill a vacancy last year.

Republican Senatorial Committee still pushing Romanoff-White House story

The National Republican Senatorial Committee is emailing around a story posted by The Hill today that reports the non-news that Sen. Michael Bennet knew...

Murkowski anti-EPA resolution comes up short in Senate vote

Colorado Sens. Mark Udall and Michael Bennet voted with 51 of their colleagues Thursday to defeat Republican Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s Congressional Review Act...
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