Michael Bennet

Guests are a chance for lawmakers to highlight issues important to them.

Democrats Michael Bennet, Phil Weiser seek to lead the state that ranks among the 10 least affordable for housing.

Candidates sometimes simultaneously maintain campaign accounts for state and federal office, or state and municipal office, when their pursuit of those jobs overlaps. Technically, they are running for two positions at once. Practically, they are not, and state elections officials don’t treat it as a violation of the law.

The Democrat says it’s natural for voters to ask, but that he thinks people feel good about his explanation — which is that as governor he can both fight Donald Trump and chart a new path forward for his party.

Colorado’s Senators want Homeland Security funding pulled from a minibus government funding bill after federal immigration agents shot a Minneapolis man this past weekend.

The funds will likely be mostly spent on the primary given that whoever wins the Democratic faceoff will likely become governor in November.

Congress returns in early January, and members of Colorado’s congressional delegation each have their own priorities for the new year.

The legislation to complete the Arkansas Valley Conduit passed Congress with unanimous support, but was branded an ‘expensive and unreliable’ project by the President.

Colorado Sens. Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper threw a wrench in Senate plans to start work on a government funding package before heading home for the holidays.

The democratic senator and gubernatorial candidate joins other state leaders in supporting a 2026 ballot measure that would allow Colorado to redraw its congressional boundaries.