WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Sen. Michael F. Bennet, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet introduced the Oversee Emerging Technology Act to require relevant federal agencies to designate a senior official able to advise on the responsible use of emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and quantum computing. Ensuring that every agency using or procuring these new tools is appropriately staffed will improve accountability and faci  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Rep. Jason Crow, D-Colorado, issued the following statement on May 11, 2023: * * * Congressman Jason Crow (CO-06) released this statement following House passage of H.R. 2, the "Child Deportation Act," which would enact strict anti-immigrant measures, including ending America's decades old asylum system and creating more bottlenecks at ports of entry, permanently and indefinitely detaining asylum seekers, criminalizing non-profits and faith organizations trying to help as  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Rep. Yadira Caraveo, D-Colorado, issued the following news release on May 11, 2023: Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo, M.D. (D-CO-08) today passed her first piece of federal legislation through the United States House of Representatives with unanimous support. Caraveo's bipartisan bill, the Testing, Rapid Analysis, and Narcotic Quality (TRANQ) Research Act, confronts the drug crisis head on by compelling additional research into emerging illicit drugs including xylazine (common  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Rep. Yadira Caraveo, D-Colorado, issued the following news release on May 11, 2023: Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo, M.D. (CO-08) today voted against H.R. 2, the draconian, wasteful immigration bill Speaker McCarthy brought to the House floor. While Republicans and Democrats have clear areas of agreement on urgently-needed immigration reforms, McCarthy chose to put forth a non-starter bill that wastes taxpayer money on an ineffective border wall, subjects children to harsh de  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colorado, issued the following news release and letter on May 11, 2023: U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Yadira Caraveo (D-CO) sent a letter today calling on President Joe Biden to release additional federal funding to help interior cities, such as Denver, address a growing number of migrants that are arriving daily. In their letter to Biden, which was also signed by Reps. Jason Crow (D-CO), Joe Neguse (D-CO) and Brittany Pettersen (D-CO), the law  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona, issued the following news release on May 10, 2023: Rep. Ruben Gallego (AZ-03) met with members of the Central Arizona Water Conservation District (CAWCD), the 15-member board serving Maricopa, Pima, and Pinal counties that oversees the 336-mile-long canal that brings water from the Colorado River to Central and Southern Arizona. The group discussed the ongoing negotiations concerning Arizona's water allocation from the Colorado River Basin.   more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colorado, issued the following news release on May 11, 2023: Yesterday, U.S. Senators John Hickenlooper and Shelley Moore Capito reintroduced the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) Policy and Cybersecurity Coordination Act, a bipartisan bill to modernize and codify the NTIA's work in cybersecurity. The NTIA's Office for Policy Analysis and Development would be renamed the Office for Policy Development and Cybersecuri  more

WASHINGTON, May 12 -- Rep. Yadira Caraveo, D-Colorado, issued the following news release and letter on May 11, 2023: Congresswoman Yadira Caraveo, M.D. (CO-08) and Congresswoman Diana DeGette (CO-01) today led Democrats in Colorado's U.S. House delegation in pressing President Joe Biden to help alleviate issues surrounding the influx of migrant arrivals in Denver. In a letter to President Joe Biden, Caraveo and DeGette were joined by Reps. Jason Crow (CO-06), Joe Neguse (CO-02), and Brittany Pe  more