WASHINGTON, April 12 -- Sen. Michael F. Bennet, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: Denver -- Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet welcomed the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) final rule to modernize the onshore oil and gas leasing program for public lands. The rule includes critical provisions to update bonding requirements for oil and gas operations, aligned with Bennet's legislation and repeated calls to the administration. Last week, Bennet led 20 bicameral colleagues to call o  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Sen. Michael F. Bennet, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, alongside U.S. Representatives Diana DeGette, Jason Crow, and Brittany Pettersen welcomed $38.6 million for three Colorado projects from the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Promoting Resilient Operations for Transformative, Efficient, and Cost-saving Transportation (PROTECT) grant program. Bennet and Hickenlooper sent letters suppo  more

WASHINGTON, April 11 -- Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: Funding for Projects in Golden, Aurora, and Denver Comes from the Department of Transportation Grant Program Created by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Senators John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet alongside Representatives Diana DeGette, Jason Crow, and Brittany Pettersen welcomed $38.6 million for three Colorado projects from the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Promoting Resilient Opera  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- Sen. John Hickenlooper, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: Domestic potato growers face significant obstacles in gaining access to Japanese markets Bipartisan Senate leaders sent a letter to Biden on day of Japanese PM Kishida address to Congress Yesterday, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper and nine of his Senate colleagues called on President Biden to support the U.S. Potato Industry and advocate for fair access to Japanese markets during his meetings with Ja  more

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- The House Oversight and Accountability Committee issued the following information for a hearing entitled "Academic Malpractice: Examining the Relationship Between Scientific Journals, the Government, and Peer Review" at 2 p.m. on April 16, 2024, at 2154 Rayburn House Office Building: Witnesses and testimonies: * Holden Thorp, Ph.D., Editor-in-Chief, Science Journals, American Association for the Advancement of Science * Roger Pielke Jr., Ph.D., Professor at University   more

WASHINGTON, April 13 -- Rep. Doug Lamborn, R-Colorado, issued the following news release on April 12, 2024: Congressman Doug Lamborn, Chairman of the Strategic Forces Subcommittee, delivered the following opening remarks at a hearing on the United States' strategic forces posture on the Fiscal Year 2025 budget request for missile defense and missile defeat programs. Congressman Lamborn's remarks as prepared: The subcommittee meets today to review the Department's fiscal year 2025 budget reque  more

WASHINGTON, April 12 -- Rep. Brittany Pettersen, D-Colorado, issued the following news release: DENVER--U.S. Representative Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) announced that the City of Golden will receive a $23.8 million grant from the Department of Transportation (DOT) to control flooding in Lena Gulch. This funding comes following a joint letter of support to the DOT sent by Pettersen and Colorado Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper, as well as Representative Joe Neguse (CO-02) last August  more