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Denver's most powerful members of Congress are calling for U.S. Attorney General William Barr to step down, saying he mischaracterized special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
"I agree he should resign," U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Denver Democrat, told CBS on Thursday as he announced his candidacy for president.
The senator, who worked in the Justice Department during President Bill Clinton's administration, said Barr is not properly leading the "serious and committed patriots" of the Justice Department.
Four congressional Democrats from Colorado sent a letter to the heads of the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, imploring the officials to end a policy preventing immigrants who work in the marijuana industry from gaining U.S. citizenship.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to newly-issued Department of Justice guidelines, U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) and Jason Crow (D-CO) sent a letter today to Attorney General William Barr and Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan urging them to retract new federal guidelines that prohibit the naturalization of legal permanent residents who have been employed in Colorado's legal cannabis industry, and replace them with a policy that's more consistent with the Cole Memorandum.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), a member of the House Natural Resources Committee, introduced legislation today to permanently protect nearly 60 million acres of undeveloped national forest in 39 states.
The legislation – known as the Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2019 – would make permanent the U.S. Forest Service's so-called roadless rule, which it put in place in 2001 to limit road construction and timber harvesting in 58.5 million acres of undeveloped forests throughout the country – including 4.2 million acres in Colorado.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) issued the following statement after Attorney General William Barr's testimony today before the Senate Judiciary Committee:
"The attorney general of the United States is the people's lawyer, responsible for enforcing the nation's laws evenly and equally, regardless of anyone's title or position. Attorney General Barr has shown over and over that he is either unwilling or unable to do that when it comes to evaluating the actions of the president and, for that reason alone, he should resign immediately."
U.S. lawmakers introduced bipartisan legislation in the House and Senate on Tuesday that would raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products to 21.
The odds of Congress raising the federal age limit this year are high with support from both parties in both houses of Congress. Reps. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., and Chris Stewart, R-Utah introduced legislation in the House while Sens. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii, and Todd Young, R-Ind., did so in the Senate.
Araceli Velasquez, who has lived in sanctuary at a space shared by two religious institutions in Denver since August 2017, is pushing for the Department of Justice to reopen her asylum case.
Last week, Velasquez filed a motion to reopen her case with the Board of Immigration Appeals. If the motion is granted, she would be able to at least temporarily leave the basement of the space shared by Park Hill United Methodist Church and Temple Micah, which is where she and her family have taken sanctuary from federal immigration law enforcement agents.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) released the following statement:
"The Mueller report details many instances in which President Trump actively attempted to interfere with the investigation into his campaign's potentially treasonous ties with Russia. The president's actions are clearly beneath the high personal, ethical and legal standards our founders envisioned in the executive branch, and, as such, constitute a prima facie case to trigger an impeachment investigation.