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DeGette wants to raise the legal age for smoking cigarettes to...

Would changing the age to buy tobacco really work to curb the number of teens that start smoking each year? Rep. Diana DeGette thinks so. Degette recently...

Colorado delegates stake claims in Planned Parenthood frenzy

Undercover footage shot at a Denver Planned Parenthood clinic is at the center of a national debate over whether to pull federal funding from...

Trans-Pacific Partnership fast-track is back on track

The House this morning gave President Obama another shot at the Trans-Pacific Partnership, passing an amendment that will give the President fast-track authority to...

Colorado Republicans all vote for politically hot, doomed federal anti-abortion bill

Colorado lawmakers in the U.S. House on Wednesday split along party lines on a bill that would ban nearly all late-term abortions across the...

Swing-state Colorado U.S. Congress members clash over latest anti-abortion bill

DENVER — Abortion bills are pouring down on Colorado like spring rain on the Northern Front Range. First, reproductive-health politics dominated the end of the 2015...

House Dems in court brief defend Obama immigration orders

"I hope the court works this out as expeditiously as possible so my constituents can have the peace of mind that their families won't be torn apart."

On ‘Cromnibus,’ Lamborn, Polis at polar ends of opposition, but in...

The so-called Cromnibus government-funding bill passed in the House last night. It was a tight vote that saw hardline conservatives and progressives oppose an...

Colorado Democrats lead charge to overturn Hobby Lobby decision

Colorado Democrats in Washington D.C. have rallied around a bill that would ban corporations from refusing to cover any health services or benefits ensured by federal law.

39th annual PrideFest shimmies through downtown Denver

Denver PrideFest is one of the largest displays in support of LGBT rights in the country. The march began with as little as one-hundred participants in 1976 and has since ballooned, with a turnout exceeding 300,000 people per year.

Rep. DeGette, ProgressNow join fast-spinning newscycle on Gardner and women’s health

In the digital era, fast-turning messaging cycles like this one are typical, which at this point doesn't seem like a good thing for Gardner. His mixed messages on personhood and contraception are likely to keep spinning like brightly colored pinwheels above his campaign until Election Day.