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Lawmakers grill Trump official on plan to shift BLM HQ to...

WASHINGTON — The head of the Bureau of Land Management today defended the Trump administration’s plans to close the agency’s Washington, D.C., office and...

Schwartz v. Tipton – the battle for Colorado’s Third Congressional District

With Democrats doing everything they can to link Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to down-ballot candidates, one of the races to watch in Colorado...

Colorado lawmakers pushing hard for bipartisan reform in Congress

Maybe it’s something in the water, but Colorado lawmakers are increasingly leading the charge on the wave of bipartisanship that’s sweeping Washington. Whether it will continue – or result in any substantial change in what many deem a badly broken system – remains to be seen. Fresh off of his co-mingling effort at Tuesday’s State of the Union speech by President Obama, Democratic Sen. Mark Udall Thursday saw his ideas incorporated into a bipartisan agreement to rewrite the rules of engagement for the U.S. Senate.