![Processed with VSCO with g3 preset](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/08/Image-from-iOS-4.jpg)
Cory Gardner’s Major Public Lands Bill Is Poised To Pass The Senate
The bill would help make repairs in National Parks and let states and local communities acquire land for new parks.
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/2019.cpr-staff-Caitlyn-Kim-square-for-web-creditCPR.jpg)
By Caitlyn Kim
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/payne-20200531-1-scaled.jpg)
Reps. Buck And Neguse Take Very Different Stances On Police Reform During A Congressional Hearing
While the Republican Rep. Ken Buck kept saying “don’t blame the police,” the Democratic Rep. Joe Neguse maintained it was time to enact serious reforms.
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/2019.cpr-staff-Caitlyn-Kim-square-for-web-creditCPR.jpg)
By Caitlyn Kim
![Congress Intelligence](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/AP_20126652538919-scaled.jpg)
As Senate Moves Forward With Public Lands Bill, Bennet Wants Added Protection For Colorado Lands
Bennet wants to add an amendment to Sen. Cory Gardner’s Great American Outdoors Act, which would permanently and fully fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund.
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/2019.cpr-staff-Caitlyn-Kim-square-for-web-creditCPR.jpg)
By Caitlyn Kim
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/05/ballot-proccessing2.jpg)
Colorado Politicians Want To Help Spread All-Mail Voting Nationwide In Response To Coronavirus
The issue of all-mail voting has become a partisan one in Washington, D.C. President Trump has taken direct aim at the practice, and Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner thinks it’s up to the states to decide.
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/2019.cpr-staff-Caitlyn-Kim-square-for-web-creditCPR.jpg)
By Caitlyn Kim
![Denver’s Auraria Campus Closed and Empty](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/200520-DENVER-AURARIA-CAMPUS-EMPTY-002.jpg)
Question Of Whether DACA Students Can Get Coronavirus Aid Is At Center Of Congressional Debates
Some schools, like Metropolitan State University and Colorado State University, are creating their own funds for DACA students in need during the pandemic as a workaround.
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/2019.cpr-staff-Caitlyn-Kim-square-for-web-creditCPR.jpg)
By Caitlyn Kim
![r m](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/AP_20152130834839-scaled.jpg)
Congress Is Eyeing Legislative Solutions To Police Brutality, Including Jason Crow
The Democratic representative has been working on a bill for months since he met with the mother of a young black man who died while in Aurora police custody in August of last year.
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/2019.cpr-staff-Caitlyn-Kim-square-for-web-creditCPR.jpg)
By Caitlyn Kim
![Jared Polis, r m](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/AP_20140124705801-scaled-e1590682073501.jpg)
Polis And Other Governors Ask For More Clarity And Strategy With Coronavirus Testing Moving Forward
Polis joined Democratic and Republican governors on Tuesday in testifying to the Congressional Oversight and Investigations subcommittee about how states are responding to the coronavirus pandemic.
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/2019.cpr-staff-Caitlyn-Kim-square-for-web-creditCPR.jpg)
By Caitlyn Kim
![George Floyd Denver Protest Day 3](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/200530-GEORGE-FLOYD-DENVER-POLICE-PROTEST-0014.jpg)
Gardner And Bennet Weigh In As Protests Continue To Grow In Colorado And Trump Calls For More Force
Rep. Joe Neguse also spoke out, and said he will work with other Congress members to enact reforms and “heal the deep divisions in our country before they tear us apart.”
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/2019.cpr-staff-Caitlyn-Kim-square-for-web-creditCPR.jpg)
By Caitlyn Kim
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/Billy-Goat-Farm.jpg)
Colorado Small Businesses, Restaurants And Farms Can’t Seem To Crack The Coronavirus Aid Code
As the economic pain caused by the pandemic continues, the imperfections and shortcomings of federal relief measures have come into harsh relief.
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/2019.cpr-staff-Caitlyn-Kim-square-for-web-creditCPR.jpg)
By Caitlyn Kim
![Congress Intelligence](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/AP_20126573712712-scaled.jpg)
When The Senate Gets Back, Bennet Hopes To Leverage More Help For Small Businesses
The House of Representatives just passed a bill to extend the PPP program to 24 weeks. The Senate has yet to act.
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/2019.cpr-staff-Caitlyn-Kim-square-for-web-creditCPR.jpg)
By Caitlyn Kim
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/01/AP_20023673572239-scaled.jpg)
Gardner Drops Threat To Oppose Congressional Recess After Scoring A Promise To Consider His Public Lands Bill
Sen. Cory Gardner’s threat was a rare public disagreement with GOP Senate leadership on how quickly to act on additional coronavirus legislation.
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/2019.cpr-staff-Caitlyn-Kim-square-for-web-creditCPR.jpg)
By Caitlyn Kim
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/Charla-2.jpg)
Jill Biden Campaigned In Denver And Colorado Springs Today — Without Leaving Her Home
Jill Biden’s first campaign trip to Colorado since her husband Joe Biden locked up the Democratic nomination was a virtual one over Zoom.
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/2019.cpr-staff-Caitlyn-Kim-square-for-web-creditCPR.jpg)
By Caitlyn Kim
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/CARES-act-funds-polis-eo_d2020070-e1589916048150.png)
GOP Cross With How Polis, Dem Leadership Will Split $1.6B In CARES Act Funds
Rep. Scott Tipton said the $275 million for local direct assistance might not be adequate.
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/2019.cpr-staff-Caitlyn-Kim-square-for-web-creditCPR.jpg)
By Caitlyn Kim
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/buck-gardner.jpg)
Gardner And Buck Remain Silent Over Trump’s Latest Firing Of An Inspector General
Former Inspector General Steve Linick was looking into Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s alleged misuse of aides, as well as a controversial arms sale to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates last year.
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/2019.cpr-staff-Caitlyn-Kim-square-for-web-creditCPR.jpg)
By Caitlyn Kim
![Donald Trump, Jared Polis](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/AP_20134775857040-scaled.jpg)
Trump Praises Colorado’s Reopening In Meeting With Polis And Gardner
The president said that he and the Democratic governor have “worked together and I think we’ve worked together very well.”
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/2019.cpr-staff-Caitlyn-Kim-square-for-web-creditCPR.jpg)
By Caitlyn Kim
![Virus Outbreak Congress](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/AP_20133698306887-scaled.jpg)
Democrats’ HEROES Act National Coronavirus Relief Bill Carries A Lot Of Colorado Ideas
Unlike the last four relief measures, the HEROES Act bill isn’t the product of bipartisan negotiations, which many Republicans are quick to note.
![](https://www.cpr.org/cdn-cgi/image/width=3840,quality=75,format=auto/https://wp-cpr.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2019/06/2019.cpr-staff-Caitlyn-Kim-square-for-web-creditCPR.jpg)
By Caitlyn Kim