Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper welcomed the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s (NTIA) waiver notice for letter of credit requirements that were included as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’s Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program.

Los senadores estadounidenses Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) y Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), junto con los representantes estadounidenses Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) y María Salazar (R-Fla.), presentaron una propuesta de ley para combatir el atraso en los tribunales de inmigración y fortalecer los derechos al debido proceso de los niños inmigrantes no acompañados. Las representantes estadounidenses Hillary Scholten (D-Mich.) y Lori Chávez-DeRemer (R-Ore.) también se unieron como copatrocinadores de esta legislación.

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper joined 46 Senate colleagues to urge the Biden Administration to require federally and state-regulated health insurance plans to cover over-the-counter contraceptives without any cost to the patient or the need for a prescription.

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper urged the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works to update policy and provide authorizations to support five Colorado water projects across the state with a specific focus on improving water infrastructure in underserved communities.

In response to the House Republicans’ Israel aid package, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the following statement:

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet, a member of the Senate Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism, and John Hickenlooper joined U.S. Senators Jacky Rosen (D-Nen.) and James Lankford (R-Ok.), and U.S. Representatives Kathy Manning (D-N.C.) and Chris Smith (R-N.J.) in a letter calling on U.S. Department of Homeland (DHS) Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Christopher Wray to protect Jewish Americans from antisemitic attacks.

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined 25 Senate colleagues to release the following statement:

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, member of the Senate Finance Committee, alongside Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-Va.), and six Senate colleagues, introduced legislation to update and expand unemployment insurance to better meet the needs of the modern workforce and more effectively respond during times of economic crisis.

U.S. Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) alongside U.S. Senators John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Angus King (I-Maine), Bernard Sanders (I-Vt.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Edward Markey (D-Mass.), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), wrote to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Director Tracy Stone-Manning in support of the updated oil and gas bonding requirements in the BLM’s proposed Onshore Oil and Gas Leasing Rule.

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet, chair of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry’s Subcommittee on Conservation, Climate, Forestry, and Natural Resources, and John Hickenlooper joined Colorado U.S. Representative Joe Neguse to urge ten insurance companies representing Colorado’s homeowners to extend Additional Living Expenses (ALE) coverage for survivors of the Marshall Fire from 24 months to 36 months.