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The House Armed Services Committee voted Wednesday to put roadblocks on President Trump’s ability to withdraw from Afghanistan, including requiring an assessment on whether any country has offered incentives for the Taliban to attack U.S. and coalition troops.

The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) amendment, from Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), would require several certifications before the U.S. military can further draw down in Afghanistan.

The amendment was approved 45-11.

Four months ago, we tried President Trump for abusing the power of his office in ways that undermined our country's national security, the integrity of U.S. elections and the constitutional structure of our republic. Trump's efforts to coerce an ally to help him cheat in the upcoming election violated the public trust, went to the heart of his unfitness for office — and revealed that he prioritizes his interests over those of the nation.

AURORA, Colo. (CBS4)- A civil rights and police reform bill by Congressman Jason Crow, a Democrat representing Colorado's 6th Congressional District, will take center stage at a hearing on racial profiling and police brutality at the nation's Capitol next week.

The bill is named after George Floyd but Crow began working on it months ago with the mother of Elijah McClain, an unarmed black man killed by police in Aurora.

Democratic congressman from Colorado introduced a bill Thursday that seeks to gather racial policing data from across the nation, create a federal task force to investigate local law enforcement misconduct and provide financial incentives to agencies that implement pilot programs to reduce wrongdoing. 

“This should have happened a long time ago,” said U.S. Rep. Jason Crow, who has teamed up with House Democratic colleagues Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, of Texas, and Rep. Ilhan Omar, of Minnesota, on the measure. “A lot of people have died and been seriously hurt because we haven’t made the change we have to make.”

Controlling the spread of the coronavirus and rebuilding our economy will take a monumental effort by all levels of government. As Congress debates the next stimulus relief package, we come together to demand that legislation be driven not by ideology or party lines, but by the needs of our communities. That includes providing stimulus relief to our state and local governments who are on the frontlines of this pandemic.

The toll the coronavirus is having on America's cities and states is unprecedented. Here in Colorado, we are looking at a possible $3 billion shortfall at the state government level while our proud city of Aurora is facing an estimated $25 million budget cut.

A few hours after the U.S. Senate voted to acquit President Trump, bringing a swift end to the third impeachment trial in American history, a pair of armed police officers escorted Congressman Jason Crow of Colorado for the last time back to his Capitol Hill apartment. As one of the seven House impeachment managers, Crow had spent the last three weeks making the case to senators, and to the American people, that Trump should be removed from office. He had stood in the white-hot center of our politics. The scrutiny, he'd expected. The death threats, not so much. Hence the security detail.

It's still dark in Washington, D.C., when Representative Jason Crow gets up, pulls on his sneakers, and slips out the front door of the apartment he shares with Congressman Joe Neguse. Crow is used to getting up at dawn. As a kid, he woke early to stalk deer in Wisconsin's Northwoods. In the Army, he didn't have a choice. Now, as a freshman congressman, he gets up every morning by 6 a.m. of his own accord.