Tag: Michael Bennet
Salazar, Markey, Bennet secure cash to clean up water wells
As if we didn’t already know this, here’s this civics lesson again: it does matter what committee appointments your representatives snag.
Wednesday, 3rd District Congressman...
NYT hyperbole alert: Romanoff run ‘deeply dividing’ Colo. Democrats
The media loves the Romanoff insurgency. The New York Times ran with the story today. What's the story, exactly?
Former state Speaker of the House...
House orders feds to clean-up Leadville tunnel
Partisan games were finally put to rest on Tuesday, as a long overdue environmental clean-up bill for Leadville, Colo., passed the U.S. House of...
Colorado delegation pushes to help hard-pressed dairy farmers
Colorado’s U.S. senators, Michael Bennet and Mark Udall, sent a letter Thursday asking leaders in both the House and Senate to keep $350 million...
Markey, Bennet land on FRC’s 2010 target list of ‘anti-family’ Democrats
U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey and U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, both freshman Colorado Democrats, found themselves on a list of more than a dozen potential...
New ‘Public Option Scorecard’ tracks Senate stances
The Washington Independent today launched a "Public Option Scoreboard" that tracks the stances of U.S. senators on health reform. The feature will be updated...
Bennet statement on terror probe reveals staff scramble for updates
An e-mailed statement sent Tuesday evening from U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet's office about an anti-terrorism investigation with Colorado ties inadvertently included a chain of more than a dozen e-mails from staffers scrambling to update the boss and worrying whether news organizations might conclude the state's junior senator wasn't "as much in the loop" as U.S. Sen. Mark Udall.
Norton vs Bennet: Dueling YouTubes preview coming attractions
Executive Director of the Denver Police Foundation Jane Norton announced her candidacy for the U.S. Senate yesterday. If Norton makes it through what is...
Ex Rep. Tancredo opines on Senate race, Denver Post writes it...
Former Colorado U.S. Representative, illegal-immigration crusader and cable news hyperbole generator Tom Tancredo had some thoughts he wanted to share on Republican Jane Norton's...
Democrats could go it alone on health care, Udall says after...
Senate Democrats could be ready to draft health care reform legislation without the help of Republicans, according to Colorado Sen. Mark Udall, who spoke with reporters Thursday afternoon following a meeting Udall, Sen. Michael Bennet and 15 other Democratic senators held with President Barack Obama.
"At some point, after you've extended your hand for a number of months and it's not reciprocated," Udall said, "I think it is incumbent on us as the majority party, with responsibility to govern and solve problems, to act."