Bennet, Hickenlooper Welcome $79 Million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Funds to Cap Orphan Oil & Gas Wells Across Colorado

In Addition To Capping Leaking Wells, Funds Will Create Thousands Of Good Paying Jobs

Jan 31, 2022

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.

Bennet Joins Gillibrand, Colleagues In Push To Expand TRICARE Coverage Of At-Home Covid-19 Tests For Service Members And Their Families

Letter to DoD Says TRICARE Coverage Should Follow Same Requirements as Biden Administration is Requiring For Those Covered Under Private Insurance

Jan 28, 2022

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.

Bennet, Hickenlooper, Warnock, Colleagues Urge Defense Department to Protect Colorado Servicemembers, Military Families from Inadequate Private Base Housing

Senators Join Effort to Protect Servicemembers From Flawed Base Housing Conditions and Enhance Federal Oversight of Military Housing Operated by Private Housing Contractors, Including at Fort Carson

Jan 28, 2022

Colorado U.S. Senators Michael Bennet and John Hickenlooper joined U.S. Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) and several colleagues in a new oversight effort to protect the nation’s servicemembers from unsanitary, unsafe living conditions at military base housing facilities operated by Balfour Beatty Communities (BBC) LLC.

Bennet, Stabenow, Colleagues Urge Biden Administration to Require Medicare to Cover Costs for Rapid COVID-19 Tests

Lawmakers Want Medicare Included In New Guidance That Requires Most Insurance Companies to Cover Rapid Tests

Jan 27, 2022

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) joined several of their U.S. Senate colleagues to urge the Biden Administration to include Medicare in its guidance that requires insurance companies to pay for rapid Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) tests.

Bennet Tours Habitat for Humanity Project That Will Increase Supply of Affordable Homes in Metro Denver, Congratulates Coloradan Closing on First Home

Bennet Toured Homeownership Development with Members of His Housing Affordability Strategy Group, Which He Convened with Hickenlooper, to Address the Housing Affordability Crisis in Colorado

Jan 27, 2022

Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and Maiker Housing Partners Executive Director Peter LiFari joined Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver CEO Heather Lafferty for a tour of Aria Homes by Habitat, an affordable housing development in a mixed-income community in Denver.

Bennet, Crow, Perlmutter, DeGette, Neguse Join Over 190 Congressional Lawmakers to File Amicus Brief Defending EPA’s Clean Air Act Authority

Jan 26, 2022

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet and Colorado U.S. Representatives Jason Crow, Ed Perlmutter, Diana DeGette, and Joe Neguse joined U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.) and U.S. Representatives Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) and Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-N.J.) and more than 180 congressional Democrats in submitting an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in the case of West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

Bennet, Brown, Booker, Warnock, Wyden Urge Biden and Harris to Secure Expanded Child Tax Credit as Centerpiece of Build Back Better Package

Jan 26, 2022

Today, U.S. Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), and Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) urged President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to secure an extension of the expanded Child Tax Credit (CTC) as a centerpiece of the Build Back Better package.

Bennet Tours Centennial Airport, Welcomes Support From Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

Funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Will Support Necessary Upgrades to the Airport’s Snow Removal Equipment, Taxiways, and Security Fencing

Jan 26, 2022

Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet joined Centennial Airport Executive Director and CEO Mike Fronapfel and Arapahoe County Commissioners Nancy Sharpe and Bill Hollen to tour Centennial Airport and hear about their plans to utilize federal funding from the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA).

Bennet Statement on Retirement of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer

Jan 26, 2022

Today, Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the following statement after reports that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer plans to retire.

Bennet, Perlmutter Celebrate Bipartisan Infrastructure Funding Support for CDOT’s Future Reconstruction of Aging Bridges

Colorado Will Receive $225 Million Over the Next Five Years to Fix Bridges Across the State

Jan 24, 2022

Today, U.S. Senator Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and U.S. Representative Ed Perlmutter (D-Colo.) celebrated the support the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) funding will provide to the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) bridge reconstruction projects across the state.

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Bennet, Hickenlooper Welcome $79 Million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill Funds to Cap Orphan Oil & Gas Wells Across Colorado

In Addition To Capping Leaking Wells, Funds Will Create Thousands Of Good Paying Jobs

Bennet Joins Gillibrand, Colleagues In Push To Expand TRICARE Coverage Of At-Home Covid-19 Tests For Service Members And Their Families

Letter to DoD Says TRICARE Coverage Should Follow Same Requirements as Biden Administration is Requiring For Those Covered Under Private Insurance

Bennet, Hickenlooper, Warnock, Colleagues Urge Defense Department to Protect Colorado Servicemembers, Military Families from Inadequate Private Base Housing

Senators Join Effort to Protect Servicemembers From Flawed Base Housing Conditions and Enhance Federal Oversight of Military Housing Operated by Private Housing Contractors, Including at Fort Carson

Bennet, Stabenow, Colleagues Urge Biden Administration to Require Medicare to Cover Costs for Rapid COVID-19 Tests

Lawmakers Want Medicare Included In New Guidance That Requires Most Insurance Companies to Cover Rapid Tests

Bennet Tours Habitat for Humanity Project That Will Increase Supply of Affordable Homes in Metro Denver, Congratulates Coloradan Closing on First Home

Bennet Toured Homeownership Development with Members of His Housing Affordability Strategy Group, Which He Convened with Hickenlooper, to Address the Housing Affordability Crisis in Colorado

Bennet, Crow, Perlmutter, DeGette, Neguse Join Over 190 Congressional Lawmakers to File Amicus Brief Defending EPA’s Clean Air Act Authority

Bennet, Brown, Booker, Warnock, Wyden Urge Biden and Harris to Secure Expanded Child Tax Credit as Centerpiece of Build Back Better Package

Bennet Tours Centennial Airport, Welcomes Support From Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

Funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Will Support Necessary Upgrades to the Airport’s Snow Removal Equipment, Taxiways, and Security Fencing

Bennet Statement on Retirement of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer

Bennet, Perlmutter Celebrate Bipartisan Infrastructure Funding Support for CDOT’s Future Reconstruction of Aging Bridges

Colorado Will Receive $225 Million Over the Next Five Years to Fix Bridges Across the State

In Addition To Capping Leaking Wells, Funds Will Create Thousands Of Good Paying Jobs

Letter to DoD Says TRICARE Coverage Should Follow Same Requirements as Biden Administration is Requiring For Those Covered Under Private Insurance

Senators Join Effort to Protect Servicemembers From Flawed Base Housing Conditions and Enhance Federal Oversight of Military Housing Operated by Private Housing Contractors, Including at Fort Carson

Lawmakers Want Medicare Included In New Guidance That Requires Most Insurance Companies to Cover Rapid Tests

Bennet Toured Homeownership Development with Members of His Housing Affordability Strategy Group, Which He Convened with Hickenlooper, to Address the Housing Affordability Crisis in Colorado

Funding from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Will Support Necessary Upgrades to the Airport’s Snow Removal Equipment, Taxiways, and Security Fencing

Colorado Will Receive $225 Million Over the Next Five Years to Fix Bridges Across the State

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