Congress

A Colorado Democrat running for Congress wants her state to join the partisan redistricting battle that began in Texas.

Congressman Joe Neguse and a coalition of lawmakers are pushing back on a White House proposal to slash funding to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that supports climate research, including several laboratories in Boulder.

Federal funding for public broadcasting is a focus this week for lawmakers in Washington D.C. A vote in the Senate to eliminate that funding could happen at any time. Colorado Sen. John Hickenlooper spoke with In The NoCo about the discussions he’s having this week with his colleagues on Capitol Hill.

The House narrowly passed a measure that would remove funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting which funds NPR and PBS stations.

The budget bill would cut trillions in taxes while chopping back historic levels of funding for safety net programs like Medicaid and SNAP.

Progressive advocates are shocked at the scale of rollbacks of years of effort to electrify and scrub emissions; GOP cheers end to subsidies. Listen to "Morning Edition" host Michael Lyle, Jr. discuss this story with Colorado Sun reporter Michael Booth and then read The Colorado Sun story at the link below.

Musk and President Trump have bypassed Congress to make unprecedented moves to reshape government. At least one member of Colorado’s delegation loves it.

'Bipartisanship' is not a word you’ve heard lately in headlines out of Washington D.C. But Colorado Congressman and Army veteran Jason Crow still sees a path for Republicans and Democrats to work together. He’s on In The NoCo to talk about reaching across the aisle, immigration, and what he sees happening in Washington.

Brittany Pettersen represents Colorado’s seventh congressional district in Washington. She’s about to give birth to her second child – and because of that, she can’t be in D.C. to vote on matters that come before Congress. Today on ITN, we hear from Pettersen about why she thinks the rules are unfair to lawmakers who are new parents – and how she’s working to change them.

After all the drama of recent years, the start to the 119th Congress has been, dare we say it, pretty normal?