Representative Betsy Markey News

A former Fort Collins city council member and military vet plans to seek the Republican nomination for Colorado's 4th Congressional District.

The vote on health-care reform was fraught with political risks for Rep. Betsy Markey no matter which way she went, said two Colorado State University political scientists who closely follow the 4th Congressional District.

GREELEY, Colo. - Colorado Democratic Rep. Betsy Markey, along with 38 other politically-vulnerable House Democrats, bucked the Democratic caucus and voted against the Affordable Health Care for America Act, which narrowly passed the U.S. House of Representatives Saturday night on a 220-215 vote.

Colorado House member Betsy Markey, who represents the 4th District that includes Weld County and most of northeastern Colorado, was one of 39 Democrats who voted against the health-care reform bill late Saturday night.

After the House passed a health care reform bill on Saturday night, Colorado's congressional representatives sent out their reactions.

Rep. Betsy Markey voted against a health-care reform bill backed by President Barack Obama and the House Democratic leadership Saturday night, citing concerns over the cost of the bill.

Nearly all of Colorado's congressional delegation is split along party lines as the House vote on a sweeping health care bill approaches.

Is there a list of all Democrats regardless of whether they are liberal or "moderate" that would be vulnerable if they voted for the health care reform? There is a list of blue dog democrats but that list is by the representative's political ideology instead of the district's ideology.

The U.S. House passed a bill Wednesday to speed up credit card reforms, including an amendment offered by Rep.

House Votes to Speed Up Credit Card Reforms Maloney-Frank bill will implement credit card reforms immediately upon enactment Washington, DC - The U.S. House of Representatives today overwhelmingly approved legislation sponsored by Reps.

A measure aimed at freezing credit card rate hikes and fee increases sponsored by U.S. Rep Betsy Markey, D-Colo., passed the House Wednesday in the form of an amendment to H.R. 3639, known as the Expedited CARD Reform for Consumers Act of 2009.

The bill, approved 331-92, would force lenders to comply with the new rules immediately unless they agree to freeze interest rates and fees.

The U.S. House passed a bill Wednesday to speed up credit card reforms, including an amendment offered by Rep.

The elections that attracted national attention Tuesday were all on the East Coast, with New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine going down to defeat and conservative Republican activists like Sarah Palin failing in their effort to override the local party and elect a fellow-traveler to an open Congressional seat in upstate New York.

Republican congressional frontrunner Cory Gardner is a former Democrat who realized in college that his beliefs 'were aligned with conservative values and ideals,' his campaign says.

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill to create a new national cemetery in southern Colorado.

Tess Gossage, an unaffiliated voter from Boulder, Colo.: "I'm pretty much satisfied with the way things are going.

As environmentalists lobby for passage of a bill in the U.S. Senate that would protect small mountain streams and drinking water sources from pollution, two Colorado groups are looking for support for possible similar legislation in the House.

If cajoling, deal-making and talking are the currency of Washington, the process that led to the 1,990-page House version of health care reform unveiled Thursday was all that on steroids.

Congresswoman Betsy Markey, D-Fort Collins, yesterday introduced The Credit Card Rate Freeze Act, legislation that would immediately freeze interest rates on consumer credit card accounts ahead of federal credit card reform legislation slated to go into effect early next year.