The American Conservative Union has already taken heat early into this year’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference for banning a pro-gay conservative group while welcoming a speaker with controversial views against multiculturalism that progressive advocacy groups have branded “white nationalist.” More …
Former Congressman Pete Hoekstra unveiled the first television commercial in the 2012 U.S. Senate race during the Super Bowl, and while he may have been aiming for positive spin, the backlash has been quite pronounced. More …
U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), Jared Polis (D-Colo.), and Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) are calling on President Obama to strengthen environmental and public health standards to protect against risks posed by hydraulic fracturing. More…
Oil shale isn’t yet commercially viable, but on Wednesday the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources passed Colorado Republican Rep. Doug Lamborn’s bill to speed up its production in the West anyway. More…
Joe Coors, Jr., great-grandson of 19th-century beer-magnate Adolph Coors, formally announced Tuesday that he is running to unseat Democratic Congressman Ed Perlmutter, who is now serving his third term in Colorado’s seventh district. More…
Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) lent his likeness to a new video series launched by the Human Rights Campaign called “Americans for Marriage Equality.” Franken is the first member of Congress to appear in a video for the campaign, which supports equal rights for same-sex couples, even as legislators in his home state have put a constitutional measure banning marriage equality on the 2012 ballot. The video was released on Thursday.
