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Democrats from Colorado are urging U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson to bring a floor vote on a measure to ban members of Congress, the president and vice president from trading stocks.
The letter signed by more than 30 House Democrats follows the July passage of the Stop Insider Trading Act, which would restrict members of Congress, their spouses and close family members from purchasing certain stocks, and require a public notice and waiting period prior to selling stocks.
The death threats arrived almost immediately.
WASHINGTON | The House on Thursday narrowly passed a resolution to halt U.S. military action in Iran, sending a warning to President Donald Trump for the second time as the war has escalated and the future of the conflict is increasingly uncertain.
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is introducing a bill Thursday that could restore Temporary Protected Status for many Afghan nationals in the U.S., providing them an avenue to stay in the country.
A rejection of the DHS view: The announcement comes after the Department of Homeland Security terminated the designation for Afghans last year, saying the country's security and economic conditions had stabilized.
It is one of the few bills on Capitol Hill to reliably receive strong bipartisan support each year. But on Wednesday, with hostilities once again intensifying in the Middle East, Democrats took a rare stand on the annual Pentagon policy bill.
The House narrowly passed the National Defense Authorization Act on Wednesday, 216-212, with 209 Republicans, six Democrats and one independent voting yes, and seven Republicans and 205 Democrats voting no.
Critics of HR 1 warned in a Zoom call Thursday that its impacts to patients and hospitals in rural Colorado will be enormous.
The call was organized by the Colorado Consumer Health Initiative, a nonprofit.
HR 1, a sweeping bill that cut about $1 trillion from Medicaid and subsidies for health insurance, was passed about a year ago.
U.S. Rep. Jason Crow of Colorado’s 6th congressional district said not a week goes by that he doesn’t meet with families who say their health-insurance premiums have gone from $300 to $1,500 a month so they can no longer afford the insurance. He said people are having to decide between paying for prescriptions or a roof over their heads.
Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) on Sunday said lawmakers will “push hard” for answers behind the bombing that destroyed an Iranian girls school on the day U.S. and Israeli airstrikes first fell on the Middle Eastern country earlier this year.
Crow accused the Trump administration of “slow rolling” answers about what happened at Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, where more than 165 people, mostly children, were killed in an airstrike.
Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) told us on Fly Out Day today that he wants to ban all members of Congress from using prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket.
Crow, 47, said he wants to “get back to the point of Americans trusting institutions and trusting elected officials.”
Four Democratic House members who were targeted by the Trump administration over a social media video that the president disliked have introduced legislation to permanently block his allies who claim they are victims of "weaponization" from receiving taxpayer-funded payouts.
Reps. Jason Crow, D-Colo., Chrissy Houlahan, D-Pa., Chris Deluzio, D-Pa., and Maggie Goodlander, D-N.H. — all of whom the Trump administration attempted to indict earlier this year — introduced the "Drain the Slush Fund Act" in the House.