Congresswoman Brittany Pettersen has introduced a bipartisan resolution honoring the victims of last week’s Evergreen High School shooting.
All members of the Colorado delegation are cosponsors of the bill. Sen. Michael Bennet introduced his chamber’s version of the resolution with Sen. John Hickenlooper.
Pettersen thanked her colleagues for signing onto the resolution to “condemn these… Read more »
The bipartisan bill would tear down barriers between federal agencies to allow collaboration in the development of policies and programs that advance housing and homeownership.
In a significant move to address the growing housing affordability crisis, a bipartisan group of lawmakers has introduced the Saving the American Dream Act,pdf legislation designed to enhance federal coordination… Read more »
The House Republican and Democratic chairs of the Congressional Real Estate Caucus will today release a new proposal, shared first with Semafor, to make housing more affordable.
The legislation from Reps. Mark Alford, R-Mo., Lou Correa, D-Calif., Tracey Mann, R-Kan., and Brittany Pettersen, D-Colo., would ask the Housing and Urban Development, Agriculture, Veterans Affairs and Treasury… Read more »
Colorado policymakers are divided on how to respond in the wake of last week’s school shooting that left one dead and two hospitalized.
“Our kids, our teachers, and our communities continue to pay the price for failed policy and inaction. This was preventable,” said U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Colorado. “How many lives do we need to lose before we are willing to say enough? Our kids… Read more »
Reps. Jeff Hurd, Brittany Pettersen introduce bills as possible government shutdown looms.
Major changes are coming to health insurance in Colorado over the next two years, but members of the state’s delegation in Congress are pitching bills that would dampen the impacts of those disruptions to health care.
H.R. 1, known as the “Big Beautiful Bill,” will reduce the number of people… Read more »
The divisions in American politics are usually obvious, often nowhere more than in the House of Representatives. But there are also glimmers of bipartisanship, and, lately, many of those have been driven by women.
At the start of this year, Reps. Brittany Pettersen, a Democrat, and Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican, united forces to challenge House leadership with a push to make… Read more »
I was sitting in my congressional office before heading to the House floor for votes when my phone lit up. Charlie Kirk – right-wing activist and podcaster – has been shot in the neck at a rally on a college campus in Utah. The growing political violence we’ve seen recently has been gut-wrenching and terrifying. I’m not only scared for the safety of friends and colleagues but fearful for… Read more »
One day after a school shooting at Evergreen High School that injured two students, more than 100 people gathered at Buchanan Park Recreation Center to show support for one another.
The two victims remain in critical condition as of Thursday. One has been identified as 18-year-old Matthew Silverstone. His family released a statement asking for privacy as Matthew recovers:
“The family… Read more »
A teenager is dead after shooting two of his fellow students at Evergreen High School in the Jefferson County foothills Wednesday, then turning his gun on himself, law enforcement officials said.
All three students were transported to Common Spirit St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, where one was pronounced dead Wednesday evening, hospital spokesperson Lindsay Foster… Read more »
On September 2, in a reversal of a Biden administration decision to make Colorado Springs, CO the U.S. Space Command’s permanent headquarters, President Donald Trump announced the headquarters would be relocated to Alabama.
In early 2021, the Secretary of the U.S. Air Force named the Army’s Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville the preferred location for the headquarters of the new U.S.… Read more »
