Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper alongside Colorado U.S. Representatives Jason Crow, Joe Neguse, Diana DeGette, Yadira Caraveo, and Brittany Pettersen urged the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to increase its support for communities and nonprofits assisting migrants arriving in Colorado.
Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper joined their Senate colleagues to call on U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations Chair Patty Murray (D-Wash.) and Vice Chair Susan Collins (R-Maine) to reject anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortion provisions in Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations bills passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, urged United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack and USDA Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Administrator Andrew Berke to maximize the benefit of USDA’s Empowering Rural America (New ERA) Program by giving full and fair consideration to the projects proposed in the letters of intent submitted by Colorado rural electric cooperatives.
Following a commitment from Majority Leader Schumer and Minority Leader McConnell to continue to work in good faith on the supplemental national security legislation, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released his hold on the FAA reauthorization and said the following:
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined U.S. Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Katie Britt (R-Ala.), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) and Deb Fischer (R-Neb.) to introduce a bipartisan resolution to condemn Hamas terrorists for using sexual and gender-based violence as a weapon of war against Israelis during their attack on Israel on October 7th.