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		<title>GOP to lead barnstorm against HB-1072</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coloradosenate.com/2007/02/01/gop-to-lead-barnstorm-against-hb-1072/</link>
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		<title>Dems slap restrictions on state’s ability to approve new charter schools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ColoradoSenateNews.com
Sen. Nancy Spence, the Senate&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coloradosenate.com/2007/02/01/dems-slap-restrictions-on-state%e2%80%99s-ability-to-approve-new-charter-schools/</link>
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		<title>Dem sponsored English-proficiency bill ripped by Dems</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coloradosenate.com/2007/02/01/english-proficiency-bill-ripped-by-dems/</link>
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		<title>Bill to register sex offender&#8217;s screen names tabled</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coloradosenate.com/2007/02/01/bill-to-register-sex-offenders-screen-names-tabled/</link>
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		<title>Democrat Sen. Suzanne Williams says no more &#8220;Columbus Day&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Julia Martinez&#8217;s Affairs of the State column in the Denver Post, Democratic Sen. Suzanne Williams is considering legislation to change the Columbus Day holiday in Colorado. Since Colorado was the first state to observe the holiday in 1905, we can be the first to abandon it - even though it is a Federal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coloradosenate.com/2007/01/30/dem-sen-williams-says-no-more-columbus-day-what-next-no-more-ceasar-chavez-day-mlk-day/</link>
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		<title>Union bill ticks off business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Denver Post: denver &#038; the west
Union bill ticks off business
Time is on Ritter&#8217;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&#8217;t expect it to happen this fast.
And in politics, timing is everything.
Just two weeks after Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter took [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coloradosenate.com/2007/01/30/union-bill-ticks-off-business/</link>
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		<title>HB 1072: Empowering Union Leaders, Not Workers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The right of individual workers in Colorado to choose whether they want union representation is under attack. &#8220;HB 1072: Empowering Union Leaders, Not Workers,&#8221; 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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coloradosenate.com/2007/01/30/hb-1072-empowering-union-leaders-not-workers/</link>
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		<title>Mitchell: Rape Rx bill legislates doctor-patient relationships</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coloradosenate.com/2007/01/30/mitchell-rape-rx-bill-legislates-doctor-patient-relationships/</link>
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		<title>War on Terror Memorial stalls in committee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee.
Democrat Senators Peter Groff and Sue Windels voted against the proposal, while GOP Senators [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coloradosenate.com/2007/01/29/war-on-terror-memorial-stalls-in-committee/</link>
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		<title>Republicans thwarted on immigration safeguards</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coloradosenate.com/2007/01/29/republicans-thwarted-on-immigration-safeguards/</link>
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		<title>Democrat Bill limiting charter schools moves to Senate floor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coloradosenate.com/2007/01/29/democrat-bill-limiting-charter-schools-moves-to-senate-floor/</link>
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		<title>Mitchell bill extends Samaritan law to school sports</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An update to Colorado’s Good Samaritan law—making it easier for off-duty health care workers to offer emergency assistance at school sporting events—was approved by the Senate on second reading Monday.
Republican Senator Shawn Mitchell’s bill will make clear that the law covers doctors and other health care professionals in such circumstances in order to ward off [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coloradosenate.com/2007/01/29/mitchell-bill-extends-samaritan-law-to-school-sports/</link>
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		<title>Democrats take aim at firearms laws in committee</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coloradosenate.com/2007/01/29/democrats-take-aim-at-firearms-laws-in-committee/</link>
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		<title>Sen. Mitchell to introduce bill: If DNA test proves you&#8217;re not the father, don&#8217;t pay child support</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coloradosenate.com/2007/01/28/sen-mitchell-to-introduce-bill-if-dna-test-proves-youre-not-the-father-dont-pay-child-support/</link>
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		<title>Jargon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mark Hillman
During my eight years at the State Capitol, I found that, for people who have a life, one of the more difficult aspects of following news about the Legislature is making sense out of the peculiar vernacular of the Capitol.
Legislators and lobbyists speak in strange tongues about “fiscal notes” and “legislative declarations” or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://coloradosenate.com/2007/01/26/jargon/</link>
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