Colo. Congressional delegation responds to transgender edict

Colorado Congressman Ken Buck, a Republican, pushed back against President Donald Trump's decision Wednesday morning to bar transgender people from serving in the military "in any capacity." "America needs a military comprised of patriots willing to sacrifice for this country," Buck, who represents Weld County and the Eastern Plains, said in a written statement to The Denver Post.

No perjury prosecution over costly VA hospital

Fire Weather Warning issued June 8 at 11:03PM MDT expiring June 10 at 10:00PM MDT in effect for: Archuleta, Dolores, Hinsdale, La Plata, Montezuma, San Juan Fire Weather Warning issued June 8 at 11:03PM MDT expiring June 10 at 10:00PM MDT in effect for: Eagle, Garfield, Mesa, Pitkin Flood Warning issued June 8 at 7:34PM MDT expiring June 10 at 6:00AM MDT in effect for: Otero Flood Advisory issued June 8 at 4:35PM MDT expiring June 12 at 4:00PM MDT in effect for: Larimer Flood Advisory issued June 8 at 2:44PM MDT expiring June 9 at 6:00PM MDT in effect for: Gunnison Fire Weather Watch issued June 8 at 12:00PM MDT expiring June 10 at 10:00PM MDT in effect for: Archuleta, Dolores, Eagle, Garfield, Hinsdale, La Plata, Mesa, Montezuma, Pitkin, San Juan DENVER - The Justice Department has declined to prosecute two Veterans Affairs Department executives after lawmakers accused them of ... (more)

US House passes bill to repeal Obamacare

That was on top of $130 billion already in the bill for states to help customers, though critics said those amounts were insufficient. Most controversially, the American Health Care Act would let insurance companies charge people with pre-existing conditions higher premiums than healthy people in some states that choose to allow this.

Hickenlooper blasts House approval for American Health Care Act

Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper blasted the U.S. House of Representative's passage of the American Health Care Act on Thursday, saying that the bill, "threatens to end health insurance coverage for hundreds of thousands of hard working Coloradans." Hickenlooper's lieutenant governor, former health care executive Donna Lynne, said the AHCA scrambles the state's health safety net.

House passes ObamaCare repeal

House Republicans on Thursday passed legislation aimed at repealing and replacing ObamaCare, taking a major step toward a long-held goal and setting in motion an overhaul of the nation's health system. The narrow 217-213 vote is a victory for GOP leaders, who faced a tumultuous path to getting the bill to the floor.

Denver attorney Jason Crow to challenge Mike Coffman in 2018

Exclusive interview with Democratic candidate Jason Crow on April 10, 2017 who will be running for Rep. Mike Coffman's Congressional seat. It's been five months since the most recent election, and the Democratic campaign to unseat U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman in the next one already has begun.

Trump’s path forward only gets tougher after health-care fiasco

President Trump listens to a speaker during a Greek Independence Day celebration in the East Room of the White House Friday. The stunning collapse of the Republican health-care bill now imperils the rest of President Trump's ambitious congressional agenda, with few prospects for quick victory on tax reform, construction projects or a host of other issues in the months ahead despite complete GOP control of government.

Military seeks new ways to punish bad online behavior

Skeptical Congress members on Tuesday pressed senior military leaders to take more aggressive action to prevent and punish inappropriate online activity by service members, including posts of "intimate" images on social media sites. And the military officers said a weeks-old investigation into nude photo-sharing by Marines online now involves all the services and has expanded to other websites, including a Tumblr page that has pornographic photos of people in various military uniforms.

Republican ads bullying other Republicans to support non-existent healthcare plan go bilingual

Donald Trump has won the presidency after narrowly carrying a few states to put him above 270 electoral votes.But according... Send a letter to U.S. Senators: Block Jeff Sessions' appointment as Attorney General. **NOTE: THE FORM LETTER IS BLANK.

News Guide: Colorado decides balance of power, right to die

Former Vice President Al Gore checks his watch to check the time until election day as he speaks during a campaign rally for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Monday, Nov. 7, 2016, in Lakewood, Colo. Gore made one other campaign stop in Colorado for Clinton to drum up support on the eve of the general election.

The Latest: GOP Rep. Roby calls on Trump to quit as nominee

The Latest on the presidential campaign a day before the second presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump : A conservative Alabama congresswoman says she will not vote for Donald Trump for president and wants him to step down as GOP nominee. Republican Martha Roby says Trump's newly disclosed comments about women and how he treats them make him "unacceptable" for the office.

The Latest: Oh Gop chief says debate “is now everything”

The Latest on the presidential campaign a day before the second presidential debate between Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump : Ohio Republican Party Chairman Matt Borges says there will be no punishment for state GOP officials who drop their support of Donald Trump over his crude comments about women. Asked whether the revelations were a fatal blow to Trump's electoral prospects, Borges said, "The debate tomorrow is now everything."

a Gop senator and a congressman are calling on Donald Trump to…

Republican Sen. Mark Kirk said Donald Trump should drop out of the presidential race, urging the GOP to enact rules for "emergency replacement," after lewd audio of the Republican presidential nominee was leaked on Friday. The Illinois senator tweeted amid a whirlwind of prominent Republicans denouncing Trump - including 2012 GOP nominee Mitt Romney, RNC chairman Tweet Embed: Donald Trump should resign as the Republican nominee for president, he brags about sexuality harassing women.

The Latest: Utah’s Lee calls on Trump to quit after apology

Utah Sen. Mike Lee is the latest Republican member of Congress to call on Donald Trump to drop out of the race for president. Lee is responding to Trump's apology for making crude comments about women and his defiant aassertion that those remarks from 2005 are a "distraction from the important issues we're facing today."

Mike Coffman is a Republican worth voting for

Here on the High Plains, where the deer and the antelope once played, Denver's suburbs roam toward the Rockies' Front Range and the nature of today's polyglot politics is written in the local congressman's campaign schedule. One day last week, Republican Mike Coffman went from a Hispanic charter school in a strip mall, to another strip mall for lunch at an Ethiopian restaurant with leaders of the Ethiopian-American community, then to a meeting with the editor of the largest of two Korean-language newspapers serving more than 3,000 Korean-Americans in the metropolitan area.

The Latest: Lawmakers want perjury inquiry over VA hospital

In this May 21, 2015 file photo, members of a construction crew work at the site of the Veterans Administration hospital complex under construction in Aurora, Colo. Federal investigators say "gross mismanagement," delays and lax oversight by the Veterans Affairs Department added hundreds of millions of dollars to the cost of a new Denver-area VA hospital and delayed it by years.