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                The midterms are a year away, but the money races are already going strong, as each party eyes control of Congress.
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                Park road and trails will mostly be open to visitors, but buildings and sites that can lock during non-business hours will stay inaccessible.
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                        To close the funding gap, the state also enters a hiring freeze.
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                        Presentations about the so-called big, beautiful bill to the Executive Committee of the Legislative Council on Wednesday was a precursor to a special lawmaking term expected to be called by Gov. Jared Polis for the coming weeks.
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                        Scheppelman, a Navy veteran who lives in Bayfield in southwest Colorado, criticized freshman Hurd as anti-conservative.
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                        The Republican reconciliation bill includes a ten-year time out on just the kind of laws that Colorado is now struggling with.
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                        A Republican representative from the Mountain West led an effort Wednesday to remove a controversial provision to sell 450,000 acres of federal land in Nevada and Utah from the House reconciliation bill.
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                        House leaders are trying to pass the massive package with Republican votes alone. Trump came to the Capitol Tuesday morning to convince the holdouts to back the bill.
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                        Democrats said the bill was anti-public lands and anti-environment, even before Utah and Nevada representatives introduced an amendment to sell public lands in their states.
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                        Legislators failed to make revisions or to come up with a plan to keep a first-in-the-nation AI law that's been derided by tech companies from taking effect early next year.
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                        Lawmakers were trying to increase security for passengers and drivers, but the country’s largest rideshare company says it will leave Colorado if the bill becomes law.
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                        “Tina is an innocent Political Prisoner being horribly and unjustly punished in the form of Cruel and Unusual Punishment,” he wrote.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
