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WASHINGTON — Today, Congressman Jason Crow (D-CO-06), Army combat veteran, released this statement following the House Armed Services Committee passage of a Crow-backed amendment to protect governors’ authority over the transfer of National Guard units and require annual reports to Congress on the status of the transfer of Air Guardsmen and women into the US Space Force.

WASHINGTON — Congressman Jason Crow (CO-06), member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI), joined Representatives Mike Turner (OH-10) and Jim Himes (CT-04), the Chair and Ranking Member of HPSCI, Gerry Connolly (VA-11), and other national security leaders in Congress, in a bipartisan letter to Department of Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin urging the Biden Administration to expedite additional resources to Ukraine.

DENVER & AURORA — Today, Congressman Jason Crow (CO-06) delivered funding he secured for three community projects totaling nearly $5,000,000. The community projects included $1,000,000 for Food Bank of the Rockies to expand hunger-relief efforts, $3,000,000 for the City of Aurora to renovate Aurora’s Central Library, and $900,000 for Aurora Water to replace aging pressure regulating valves and improve water service. These are three of the 15 community projects Congressman Crow secured funding for through the Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations process to directly benefit residents of Colorado's 6th District.   

AURORA — On Monday, Congressman Jason Crow (CO-06) joined President of Community College of Aurora (CCA) Dr. Mordecai Brownlee, CCA Vice President of Academic Success Dr. Bobby Pace, industry partners, educators and students to present $850,000 to construct Community College of Aurora’s new Center for STEM, Power Mechanics and Applied Technologies. Currently under construction and scheduled to be completed by fall of 2025, the space will expand critical programming in high-growth career fields in Colorado to address industry workforce needs and prepare students for a wide range of careers in STEM, construction, clean energy, diesel power mechanics, and other applied technology fields. 

WASHINGTON — Congressman Jason Crow (D-CO-06), founding Co-Chair of the Space Force Caucus, alongside Representative Joe Wilson (R-SC-02), a member of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC), Senators Michael Bennet (D-CO), and John Hickenlooper (D-CO) led bipartisan and bicameral colleagues, including 56 Representatives and 29 Senators, in a letter urging House and Senate Armed Services Committees to reject the inclusion of the US Air Force’s (USAF) recent Legislative Proposal 480 in the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act.

WASHINGTON — Congressman Jason Crow (CO-06), Army combat veteran and Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability, and Congressman Chris Deluzio (PA-17), Navy and Iraq War veteran and member of the House Armed Services Committee, led a letter with 86 colleagues urging President Biden to enforce National Security Memorandum 20, including the underlying law, Section 620I of the Foreign Assistance Act amid evidence and reports that Israel has restricted the flow of US aid to Gaza – where over one million Palestinians are experiencing catastrophic levels of starvation. 

DENVER — Congressman Jason Crow (CO-06), member of the Quiet Skies Caucus, applauded continued record investments in Denver International Airport (DEN) from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), including over $26 million recently announced by the Biden Administration. Congressman Crow voted for the BIL in 2021. DEN is the nation's third-busiest airport and the Rocky Mountain region’s largest economic driver.

COLORADO — Congressman Jason Crow (CO-06), Army veteran, Colorado Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Colorado Governor Jared Polis, Lieutenant Governor Dianne Primavera, and Major General Laura Clellan of the Colorado National Guard joined in support of the National Governors Association Council of Governors letter calling on the Department of Defense (DOD) to retract Legislative Proposal 480 (LP 480).