Tag: Jared Polis
Polis: Wilson outburst boosted momentum for health-reform plan
Outside a noon pro-immigration prayer vigil on Capitol Hill, Colorado's Second District Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Polis said that South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson’s...
Polis parks his millions at Goldman and at Merrill
Roll Call posted its list of the 50 richest members of Congress. Eleven freshman members made the list. Number six? Our own Boulder web-millionaire,...
Polis to co-sponsor bill overturning federal ban on same-sex marriage
Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Polis has signed on as a lead co-sponsor of legislation that will be introduced next week to repeal the Defense...
Democrats scotch Lamborn’s Leadville Mine Tunnel bill
LEADVILLE-- Citizens here will continue to wait for the federal government to take responsibility for a mine drainage tunnel running through town and brimming with contaminated water.
A U.S. House bill ordering the Bureau of Reclamation to pump and clean the contaminated water backed up behind a blockage in the Leadville Mine Drainage Tunnel was voted down Tuesday, largely by Democrats, including two from Colorado, in what observers suggest looked like clear political gamesmanship.
Colorado politicians react to Obama health care address to Congress
The reviews of President Barack Obama's health care speech are coming in from Colorado elected officials and political leaders. We will post them here as they arrive.
Sources: Romanoff planning primary challenge to Bennet for Senate seat
Former House Speaker Andrew Romanoff is readying a primary challenge to incumbent Democratic U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet.
Supporters urged Romanoff to mount a primary challenge to Gov. Bill Ritter, whose surprise appointment of Bennet left some party activists angry, The Denver Post's Michael Riley and Christopher N. Osher report, but the 44-year-old Denver Democrat has instead decided to take on Bennet.
Gardner feeds the Obama citizenship beast at health-care town hall
State Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, in his bid to oust Democratic U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey next year and become former Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave’s...
Polis takes progressive health message to a conservative corner
EDWARDS — The question put to Congressman Jared Polis by a man at Wednesday’s health-care town hall in Edwards drew a loud cheer from the majority of clearly conservative mountain-dwellers feeling disenfranchised by the ultra-liberal freshman Democrat from Boulder.
Humor of Polis ‘Colbert Report’ segment lost on Post reporter
Apparently somebody forgot to tell the Denver Post that Stephen Colbert’s “Colbert Report” on Comedy Central is satire.
Initially acknowledging the “TV funnyman” is a...
U.S. Rep. Jared Polis: On your corner and on your screen
Second District Democratic U.S. Rep. Jared Polis held a Congress on Your Corner event yesterday in Boulder. He also appeared in a taped segment...