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Private-sector companies can help keep the region's research sector strong in light of federal budget cuts, according to Clif Harald, executive director of the Boulder Economic Council.

The House approved a Republican proposal Thursday to allow interest rates on federal student loans to rise or fall from year to year with the government's cost of borrowing, ending a system in which rates are fixed by law.

Rep. Tom Graves , along with Reps. Kevin Yoder and Jared Polis , today announced continued and growing support for H.R. 1852, the Email Privacy Act.

In the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013, the House of Representatives passed an amendment that called for the removal of all four U.S. Army Brigade Combat Teams currently based in Europe.

If the U.S. House of Representatives has its way, Canadian tar sands oil will soon be flowing across the country in a new pipeline, authorized under a law that flaunts many important environmental laws.

The House of Representatives passed legislation Wednesday that would speed construction of the Keystone XL pipeline - a largely symbolic measure with probably no chance of clearing the Democratic Senate and overcoming a presidential veto.

Tensions between the Obama administration and the press were strained further Monday by news that the Justice Department had targeted a Fox News reporter as a criminal co-conspirator over national security leaks.

Rep. Scott Peters reported this week over $2 million in stock transactions in April.

Among many Latinos, the perception exists that reaching out to local law enforcement is more risky than potentially continuing to let a criminal run free and prey on others, even though most encounters with law enforcement do not end in the deportation of Latinos, according to U.S. Rep.

In late January, unlocking your cellphone technically became illegal after the Librarian of Congress removed it from the DMCA exception list last year.

WASHINGTON, May 9 -- Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo. , issued the following news release: Reps.

A funny thing happened on the way to Congress yesterday. For once, lawmakers introduced a common-sense bill - the Unlocking Technology Act of 2013 .

The Lyons High School government classes got a chance to ask questions of United States House of Representatives member Jared Polis last Thursday morning.

Rep. Mark Pocan has secured a spousal ID for Philip Frank, whom he legally married in 2006 For apparently the first time ever in the history of the U.S. House, a gay member of Congress has obtained a congressional ID card identifying his same-sex partner as a spouse.

"Zoe Lofgren has introduced the Unlocking Technology Act of 2013 this afternoon with co-sponsors Jared Polis and Thomas Massie .

The U.S. House of Representatives approved a Republican-backed bill Wednesday that would give American workers the option of taking paid ``comp time'' off for working more than 40 hours a week, instead of receiving overtime pay.

I've been working on a Colorado map. I think it can produce a 6-1-1 delegation. I didn't take into account incumbent Democrats, but I don't think they'd have a huge problem with this map.

Earlier this month Rep. Jared Polis and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen reintroduced the Student Non-Discrimination Act in the House of Representatives.

No one has yet put the Employment Nondiscrimination Act out of its misery or placed a "Do Not Resuscitate" tag on the bill, which has had more lives than a cat.

The event is free and open to the public. Metered parking is available near the building.