Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry’s Subcommittee on Conservation, Climate, Forestry, and Natural Resources, welcomed $79 million from the U.S. Forest Service to help Routt, White River and Arapaho & Roosevelt national forests recover from 2020 wildfires.

Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet, a member of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, applauded passage of the America Creating Opportunities for Manufacturing, Preeminence in Technology, and Economic Strength Act of 2022 (COMPETES) by the U.S. House of Representatives.

U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), and several of their colleagues introduced the bipartisan Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act, legislation to make it easier for “Good Samaritans” such as state agencies, local governments, nonprofits, and other groups, to clean up and improve water quality in and around abandoned hardrock mines.

Today, U.S. Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) introduced the Rural Outdoor Investment Act to promote economic growth in rural communities through strategic investment in outdoor recreation.

Today, Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper and Colorado U.S. Representative Joe Neguse urged President Joe Biden and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Deanne Criswell to grant Colorado’s forthcoming Private Property Debris Removal (PPDR) requests in the wake of the Marshall Fire.

Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined President Joe Biden at the White House to help reignite the Cancer Moonshot initiative, which Biden launched in 2016 while serving as vice president.

Today, U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.), and U.S. Representatives Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Michael Burgess (R-Texas) introduced the Small Practice, Underserved, and Rural Support Program Extension Act of 2022 (SURS Extension Act).

Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Chiquita Brooks-LaSure and CMS to support Colorado’s efforts to implement Medicaid-based Automatic Voter Registration (AVR).

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper welcomed news that Colorado can expect $79 million in grant funds from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill to create jobs cleaning up orphaned oil and gas wells across the state.

U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) joined their colleagues in a push to expand TRICARE coverage of at-home COVID-19 tests for service members and their families.