Posted on February 1st, 2007
ColoradoSenateNews.com
Senate Republicans are rallying for a showdown with House Bill 1072. They will offer a blizzard of amendments to the Democrat bill allowing closed, forced-dues shops at Colorado workplaces, according to two GOP senators who will help lead the floor fight.
“We can’t stop the train, but hopefully we can slow it down long enough to […]
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Posted on February 1st, 2007
ColoradoSenateNews.com
Sen. Nancy Spence, the Senate’s assistant minority leader and a longtime advocate of charters and other public education reforms, denounced the bill as, “yet another attempt to undermine parental choice in education simply to preserve the interests of school bureaucracies.”
A measure being denounced as an assault on charter-schooling did not come up for action as […]
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Posted on February 1st, 2007
By April M. Washington, Rocky Mountain News
February 1, 2007
A battle erupted Wednesday over a bill that would require public school students to be proficient in English to graduate from high school.
Democrats, many of them retired teachers, gave freshman Democratic Sen. Chris Romer a tongue-lashing, calling his measure an unfunded mandate that would force school districts […]
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Posted on February 1st, 2007
9News.com
DENVER – Colorado legislators debated and then tabled Wednesday a measure designed to keep an eye on registered sex offenders on the Internet.
The plan would require sex offenders to register their Internet identities and screen names with authorities after they’re released from prison. Sex offenders are already required to register their home addresses.
Legislators said Wednesday […]
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Posted on January 30th, 2007
Denver Post: denver & the west
Union bill ticks off business
Time is on Ritter’s side
By Jeri Clausing, Post Capitol Bureau Chief, Denver Post
Article Last Updated:01/27/2007 10:08:59 PM MST
Everyone knew it was going to happen. They just didn’t expect it to happen this fast.
And in politics, timing is everything.
Just two weeks after Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter took […]
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Posted on January 30th, 2007
The right of individual workers in Colorado to choose whether they want union representation is under attack. “HB 1072: Empowering Union Leaders, Not Workers,” a new issue backgrounder by policy analyst Ben DeGrow, Education Policy Analyst, Independence Institute, explains how a basic worker protection in the 60-year-old Colorado Labor Peace Act is being undermined by […]
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Posted on January 30th, 2007
DenverPost.com
The Colorado Senate today gave initial approval to a bill that would require hospitals to educate rape victims about the availability of emergency contraception.
The bill would exempt health-care workers with religious conflicts from having to talk about the issue, but it would require that hospitals - even Catholic institutions - find someone on staff to […]
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Posted on January 29th, 2007
After hitting a legislative roadblock, Sen. Mike Kopp, R-Littleton, is vowing to press on with his bid to honor Coloradans killed in the War on Terror. Senate Bill 86 stalled 2-2 last week in the Senate’s State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee.
Democrat Senators Peter Groff and Sue Windels voted against the proposal, while GOP Senators […]
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Posted on January 29th, 2007
Senate Democrats shot down bids by Republicans last week to head off illegal immigration in voting and health care.
Senate Bill 65, authored by Sen. Ted Harvey, R-Highlands Ranch, failed on a 3-2 party-line vote in the State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee.
Harvey’s intent was to ensure citizens their right to vote by requiring proper identification, […]
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Posted on January 29th, 2007
A Democrat bill that targets charter schools passed out of the Senate Education Committee Thursday over strong Republican opposition.
Senate Bill 61, authored by Sen. Sue Windels, D-Arvada, effectively undermines the state’s chartering authority, Republicans charged. The measure also limits the type of students schools are allowed to enroll, shutting out many of the kinds of […]
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Posted on January 29th, 2007
Votes on two bills Monday in separate Senate committees suggest the General Assembly is moving away from support for the right to arms, observers said.
Senate Bill 69, authored by Sen. Scott Renfroe, R-Greeley, would have shut down the statewide handgun permits database, which sunsets July 1. The bill died on a 3-2 party-line tally in […]
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Posted on January 28th, 2007
DENVER – State Sen. Shawn Mitchell, R-Broomfield, is scheduled to introduce legislation Monday that relieves men, who are proven not to be the father through DNA testing, from continuing to pay child support.
Senate Bill 56 is scheduled for consideration in Monday’s Judiciary Committee meeting.
“This legislation sounds like common sense,” said Mitchell. “We need to have […]
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Posted on January 26th, 2007
Ex-foe’s presence worries
The 2006 election may be history. But the bad blood from one particularly nasty campaign is not.
Rep. Ray Rose, R-Montrose, asked security personnel at the Capitol this week to keep an eye on his former Democratic opponent, Brian Ahern of Telluride. Ahern was turning up at the Capitol building in the same places […]
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Posted on January 25th, 2007
A fitting tribute to military
Several dozen veterans and active military members in uniform packed the House floor Wednesday for military appreciation day.
“We live in the land of the free because of the brave,” Sen. Brandon Shaffer, D-Longmont, said in one of several rousing speeches.
There was plenty of humor too.
[…]
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Posted on January 11th, 2007
DENVER – State Sen. Andy McElhany, R-Colorado Springs, offered the following remarks in response to Gov. Bill Ritter’s State of the State address Thursday:
“The governor did a pretty good job highlighting the problems we face, but he came up short on solutions.”
“Republicans already have outlined specific policy proposals, and we hope to find out soon […]
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