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Colorado wilderness bill clears U.S. House, faces Trump veto threat All...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House voted Thursday to approve legislation to preserve vast swaths of wilderness and recreation areas in Colorado.  Lawmakers voted 227-182, largely...

Colorado delegation reacts to Trump’s inflammatory tweets about congresswomen

WASHINGTON – Republican Sen. Cory Gardner on Tuesday dodged The Colorado Indy's questions about President Trump’s derogatory tweets about four Democratic congresswoman of color,...

Massive Colorado wilderness bill advances in U.S. House

WASHINGTON -- Sweeping legislation that would preserve vast swaths of wilderness and recreation areas in Colorado advanced in the U.S. House on Wednesday.  The House...

Where’s Leroy Garcia? Supporters of Colorado’s Senate president tout his hands-off...

When one of your first jobs involves collecting several dead bodies every day for six months in the 110-degree heat of an Iraqi war...

Both parties seek political leverage from Mueller report Congressional Republicans in...

WASHINGTON – The conclusions of the long-awaited report from Special Counsel Robert Mueller have many Republicans in Congress declaring victory for President Trump. But...

Trump support could be strong in this rural Colorado district —...

If Tuesday’s midterm is a referendum on President Trump, as The New Yorker and other publications have argued, Colorado Congressman Scott Tipton may have...

Littwin: Stapleton changes debate strategy, trading in faux anger for phony...

If you watch the governor’s debates closely — and, because it’s my job, I do — you saw a, uh, radical change in Walker Stapleton’s...

The primaries are over, but the (early) ads are just beginning

Ha! You may think the TV political ads were over for a while. But that’s not exactly true. Here are the two post-primary TV things...

HOUSE OF CALLS: We know you want to contact your D.C....

  If Congress were a frat house and phone-answering staffers were the pledges, the past seven days would have basically been Hell Week. The start of Donald Trump’s...

Where Colorado officials stand on Trump’s refugee order

  News of President Donald Trump temporarily slamming the borders on all refugees for 120 days— and for Syrians indefinitely— while blocking refugees from seven...