The Colorado Health Institute, the state’s non-partisan non-ideological non-profit source for health care information, is reporting that state and federal laws passed in the last two years have expanded Medicaid eligibility by nearly 200,000 uninsured adults in the…
State Rep. Mark Ferrandino, D-Denver, is questioning whether state Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, is telling the whole story when it comes to his support of foreclosure legislation.
The National Journal’s Reid Wilson this morning quoted a lot of “Democratic operatives” and “prominent pollsters” in a piece about the high-toxicity of the president for Democrats running in so-called frontline districts– that is, districts the Democratic Congressional Campaign…
The U.S. House Friday evening narrowly passed the Consolidated Land, Energy and Aquatic Resources (CLEAR) Act by 209-193 margin, with Colorado’s delegation split 3-3 on party lines and a crossover nay vote by blue-dog Democrat John Salazar.
Salazar, a rancher…
Colorado Fourth District Democratic Rep. Betsy Markey voted with Colorado Republican Reps. Doug Lamborn and Mike Coffman against extending unemployment benefits to jobless constituents Thursday. Markey’s nay vote was expected. Markey, a moderate so-called blue dog Democrat who is engaged…
Employment numbers are down in the 4th Congressional District, but not as far down as the rest of the state or the country, according to Coloradoan Editor Bob Moore.
Analyzing the jobs report for 2009, Moore predicted with job…
In the political rhetoric of the sprawling, overwhelmingly rural Fourth Congressional District in Colorado, Denver seems to get about as much respect as does Washington, which is to say not a lot. Democrat Betsy Markey is running for reelection in this swing district as an independent-minded loyal local, a Fort Collins gal. Her opponent, Republican Yuma state Rep. Cory Gardner, plays down the time he spends at the Capitol in Denver as much as he does his career history as a lawyer. He talks instead about Yuma and working to sell tractors with his father and grandfather.
When Markey and Gardner want to raise cash, though, its not their own district that brings in the bucks. Like pretty much every other politician in Colorado, the real dollars come from Denver.
Colorado legislators headed by Sen. Mark Udall asked the federal government Friday to help former nuclear weapons workers made ill by exposure to radiation by cutting back the bureaucracy that has unfairly prevented many of them from receiving compensation and…
Thursday, Colorado Congresswoman Betsy Markey, one of the so-called “blue dog” fiscal conservative members of the Democratic caucus who’s fighting a tough reelection battle in the Fourth Congressional District, was one of 11 Democrats to vote against a bill…
Who is the real Ben Marter? As far as the public knows, Marter is merely U.S. Rep. Betsy Markey’s communications director. That simple description has only gained power, though, because it is true and because it has been repeated time…
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