Tag: Michael Bennet
News Nuggets, 7 August 2009: Anti-health reform demagoguery in Pueblo
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SENIOR CARE: Concerning the GOP/ health industry-backed misinformation and rabble rousing campaign on health reform, it really doesn't get any more...
News Nuggets: 3 August 2009
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QUEENS AND COPS: In the war over welfare benefits in these recession-ravaged times, there's even more than usual at stake....
News Nuggets: 31 July 2009
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HEALTH REFORM TERROR: The risky scary healthcare reform experiment Pres Obama would subject the nation to will end in themurder of...
The fog of the Senate floor: Milbank spies Udall and Bennet...
The Washington Post's Dana Milbank wrote an odd and compelling speculative piece about the Thune Amendment gun-rights vote on the floor of the House...
News Nuggets: 23 July 2009
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GUNS AND GAYNESS: CNN has done something really right. Its show, Freshman Year, available on the web is something like a...
U.S. Senate shoots down gun amendment
WASHINGTON -- In the year’s first high-profile legislative setback for the gun lobby, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday shot down legislation that would have scrapped state and local laws dictating who can carry concealed firearms.
The vote on the measure highlighted the chasm between lawmakers from less populous rural regions, where gun rights are sacrosanct, and those representing the more urban coastal states, where higher population densities and crime rates have led local governments to enact stricter limits on concealed-carry eligibility.Sens Udall and Bennet vote in favor of controversial gun-rights amendment
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Colorado's Democratic U.S. Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet today both voted in favor of an amendment to the Pentagon's budget bill that...
National security hawks to rally support for Clean Energy Act
A group of national-security hawks who view the Clean Energy Act as critical to shoring up national defense say they're determined not to allow the legislation to be pigeonholed as strictly environmental law. They say they're taking their message across the country to voting districts where constituents rate national security a high priority but where there remains significant opposition to the act — and Colorado could be ground zero for the campaign.
Sen. Bennet rakes in $1.2 million in second quarter campaign funds
Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet's campaign announced today that it drew $1.2 million in donations during the second quarter of this year, bringing the campaign's...
Bennet engages religious leaders in health-care debate
As members of Congress return to their states for the July Fourth recess, national health care reform, one of the thorniest of the thorny legislative initiatives lawmakers are grappling with this term, brought U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet to a Thursday night discussion hosted by Rev. Bill Calhoun at Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church in Denver. The meeting was part of a campaign being waged by Calhoun and a network of more than 600 religious leaders, who are demanding that policy presently being drafted in Washington, D.C., deliver affordable coverage for all Americans.