LAKEWOOD – Today, Representative Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) introduced a suite of six bills aimed at helping communities prepare, respond to, and recover from increasingly destructive wildfires. This comes after the Aspen Acres and Willow fires have been raging across the state of Colorado, scorching over a hundred thousand acres of land, claiming over 300 homes, and upending the lives of families ... Read More »
WASHINGTON – Today, Representative Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) led 45 members in calling on the Trump Administration to reverse course on their policy effort to politicize the federal grantmaking process, allowing political appointees to have the final say on whether or not communities receive taxpayer funding. In her letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russel Vought and Departm... Read More »
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) introduced bipartisan legislation that would address the military child care crisis for families. The Department of Defense (DOD) oversees the nation’s most expansive employer-backed child care system, but a severe staffing deficit has stranded more than 7,800 military children on waitlists. This workforce crisis has forced classro... Read More »
Washington – Today, U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) voted against the first steps to the third reconciliation package put forth by House Republicans that includes $73 billion to cover the cost of Donald Trump’s unconstitutional war in Iran. “House Republicans just chose Trump’s illegal war over American families. They voted to pour another $73 billion into the war with Iran while th... Read More »
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) released the following statement after voting against Republicans’ National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2027: “Our service members put everything on the line to serve our country and keep us safe. We have an obligation to honor their sacrifice showing them the utmost respect and ensuring they always have a... Read More »
WASHINGTON – U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) today announced her legislation that would ban Trump’s effort to use taxpayer funding to compensate convicted January 6th insurrectionists and others who were charged and convicted of crimes during the Biden Administration. The Weaponization Claims Ban Act specifically blocks the fund by making claims made under the Federal Tort Claims Ac... Read More »
Today, Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) led Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO), Senator John Hickenlooper (D-CO), and Representatives Diana DeGette (D-CO), Joe Neguse (D-CO), and Jason Crow (D-CO) in again pressing the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for accountability following the announcement of a 5-year GEO Group contract to operate a new Immigration and Customs Enforceme... Read More »
Today, U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) and Senator Chris Van Hollen (Md.) led their colleagues in reintroducing the Disclosure of Tax Havens and Offshoring Act, legislation to provide transparency around corporations’ use of tax havens and incentives to offshore jobs. This bill would require public companies to disclose their financial reporting on a country-by-country basis. Ensuri... Read More »
WASHINGTON, DC – FACT applauds the reintroduction by Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) and Representative Brittany Pettersen (D-CO-7) of the Disclosure of Tax Havens and Offshoring Act, legislation that would require American multinational corporations to publish expanded financial information on their offshore operations, known as public country-by-country reporting (CbCR). The legislation’s reintr... Read More »
WASHINGTON — Representatives Brittany Pettersen (D-CO), Jason Crow (D-CO), Diana DeGette (D-CO), and Joe Neguse (D-CO) released the following statement after voting in favor of Congressman Massie’s amendment to the Republican budget: “Today we voted against additional taxpayer-funded military aid being given to Prime Minister Netanyahu’s government. “We support Israel’s right to exist and defend i... Read More »
A suspicious package, requiring Denver’s bomb squad. Issues calling 911 from inside federal offices. A malfunctioning public address system that doesn’t reliably broadcast, whether that be for tornadoes or threats. Democratic lawmakers are demanding answers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over a series of security and safety issues at its regional headquarters near Denver’s Uni... Read More »
WASHINGTON – During Colorado’s primary election week, U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) led an effort with Representative Kim Schrier (WA-08) pushing for more reliable delivery for mail-in ballots, particularly for rural communities, which have experienced longstanding mail service delays. In a letter sent today to the United States Postal Service (USPS), the Members demanded answers ... Read More »
WASHINGTON — Today, U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07), alongside Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, and Representative DeGette (CO-01), demanded answers from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin after a series of alarming safety failures at the EPA Region 8 Headquarters in Denver, Colorado. These failures — including the mishandling of a bomb thre... Read More »
WASHINGTON D.C. — The fate of the most significant housing legislation in 30 years remains in limbo as the president has not budged on signing it. On Wednesday, President Donald Trump backed out of signing the bill after initially showing support, writing on Truth Social: “Today’s Housing News Conference and Signing is hereby canceled until such time as we pass the desperately needed SAVE AMERICA ... Read More »
WASHINGTON – Today, on the anniversary of the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision, U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) introduced a resolution to prohibit the government from surveilling water systems, including groundwater, surface water, wastewater, or drinking water, to monitor essential medications used in Americans’ reproductive health care. The resolution comes a... Read More »
