Tag: Kevin Lundberg
Colorado lawmakers, left and right, look to lead on immigration reform
Liberal Boulder Democratic Congressman Jared Polis and a small group of Colorado's most conservative state lawmakers share a focus: They're all pushing immigration policy reform and they all believe that now is the time to act.
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...
Budget passes Colorado Senate; Republicans cry ‘socialism’
DENVER-- Republican lawmakers furious with the $18.2 billion budget presented Friday in the senate here said the proposal failed to limit government spending and that it amounted to another move toward socialism. Exasperated Democrats argued that the budget cut millions of dollars from programs, including vital education and medical programs in the state.
Hard Case: Ritter unlikely to support new rules on trying youth...
Gov. Bill Ritter doesn't think it's a good idea to limit district attorney authority to determine whether to try suspects in juvenile or criminal...
Senate passes bill to expand coverage of maternity care and contraception
DENVER-- The Senate today sent legislation for the governor to sign into law that will require insurance companies here to include maternity coverage with...
Colorado Tea Partiers rally in capitol chambers and on the steps
DENVER--Members of Colorado Tea Party and 912 groups and the libertarian think tank Independence Institute attended a "grassroots session" and rally sponsored by Americans For Prosperity at the Capitol Wednesday. The activists met with GOP lawmakers for a strategy session in the Old Senate chambers and then gathered on the capitol steps. The rally lured a familiar group of Republican lawmakers, led this time by Yuma state Rep. Cory Gardner, who is also running to represent the Fourth Congressional district in Washington.
Ritter renewable hike sails through Senate; clean air bill next on...
Gov. Bill Ritter may be a lame-duck chief executive laid up by a recent bike crash, but his clean-energy agenda keeps rolling along like Lance Armstrong in the Alps.
Marilyn Musgrave in New York rallies the conservative troops
What does it look like when the arch-conservatives come to town? They're swarming places like Watertown in upstate New York, where semi-qualified Conservative...
Who exactly voted down that single-payer resolution?
News outlets across Colorado Monday published a four-sentence AP story reporting that "Colorado lawmakers" rejected a resolution urging Congress to pass a single-payer health...
Penry, and his name recognition, MIA at Larimer GOP straw poll
Larimer County Republican insiders nibbled away at conventional wisdom regarding Colorado Senate Minority Leader Josh Penry's prospects in the coming gubernatorial primary.