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Full Article Can be Found Here Two of Colorado’s Democrats in Congress introduced a bill that would create a federal grant program to provide rural law enforcement agencies with naloxone, a medicine to reduce opioid overdose deaths.  U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen of Lakewood led the introduction of the bipartisan bill alongside Washington Republican Rep. Dan Newhouse,… Read more »

Full Article Can Be Found Here CAÑON CITY, Colo. (KRDO) - The Cotter Uranium Mill in Cañon City closed in 2011, yet more than five million tons of toxic waste at the Superfund site hasn’t been cleaned up. Now, a U.S. legislator is getting involved. U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) wrote a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in May with concerns about the… Read more »

Full Article Can Be Found Here DENVER — Colorado Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen introduced a bipartisan bill that aims to study the mental health effects of active shooter drills and lockdowns on students, teachers, parents, and school staff. The goal is to determine best practices surrounding the drills and standardize those throughout the country. The School Safety Drill… Read more »

Full Article Can be Found Here Local nonprofit Watershed Inc. was awarded a US EPA Brownfields Cleanup Grant in the amount of $979,222 to fund the environmental remediation of the McGinnis Gymnasium. A “brownfield” is any property that is disused due to real or perceived contamination. The McGinnis Gym is contaminated with asbestos, lead paint and mold, which must be… Read more »

Full Article Can be Found Here COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- The future of thousands of Dreamers, young adult immigrants brought to the United States as children, is up in the air. The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, was initially created nearly a decade ago by the Obama Administration as a temporary way to safeguard immigrants from deportation.… Read more »

Full Article Can Be Found Here ‘Politics doesn’t make it easy to be a parent’: Mothers in office hope a new report about representation draws attention to the challenges they face.  Moms with minor children are grossly underrepresented in Congress, according to a new report that highlights the barriers to their involvement in federal office — and are far outnumbered by… Read more »

Full Article Can Be Found Here FREMONT COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) -- Just a few days after Democratic Rep. Brittany Pettersen was sworn into office on Capitol Hill, she immersed herself in an ongoing controversy involving the Federal Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Office of Personnel management and the union representing correctional officers at the Federal Correctional Complex, in… Read more »

Link to the story can be found here. During her 10 years in the Colorado state legislature, U.S. Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen championed policies to improve access to substance use disorder treatment. Now she is working on the federal level to attack the opioid crisis head-on. Pettersen hosted a roundtable… Read more »

Link to the article can be found here. U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen, (D-Colo) spoke to Woodland Park business owners April 13 at the Swiss Chalet. “I want to get to know the local communities and start building those relationships,” said Pettersen, who represents Congressional District 7. “Oftentimes our rural… Read more »

Full Article Freshman Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen introduced her first piece of legislation Thursday.  The Stop the Import of Fentanyl Act would set up a national center under the Drug Enforcement Administration to prevent the import of illicit synthetic drugs, like fentanyl. The office would investigate how the drugs make it into the United States as well as come up… Read more »