Ken Salazar News

When Colorado's own Ken Salazar was named to head the Department of Interior, it was hard to know what to expect.

I was just looking at this run-down of recent polls by Tom Jensen at Public Policy Polling.

A freshman Democratic senator in a competitive race says he's willing to sacrifice his job to pass healthcare reform.

Sen. Michael Bennet , a freshman Senator who is fighting to hold his seat in 2010, said he would support health care reform even if it cost him his job.

The long-awaited construction of a stand-alone veteransA' hospital at Fitzsimons got a boost yesterday after the U.S. Senate passed a bill that includes $119 million in funding for the project.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will present the health care reform bill to Democratic senators at a special caucus meeting scheduled for 5 p.m. Wednesday, his spokesman said Tuesday night.

State Rep. Scott Tipton is getting into the race in Colorado's 3rd Congressional District and turning it into a referendum on President Barack Obama's policies.

Update : Stupak passes, only 1 present vote because the anti-choicers said they'd score a present vote as a no vote.

When Ken Salazar was selected by then-President-elect Obama to be Secretary of the Interior, radical environmental groups panned him as "especially weak incombating global warming." The "Center for Biological Diversity" tried to paint Salazar as nearly conservative , including noting that he "fought federal action on global warming." There is some ...

"Cap-and-trade:" Polls show few Americans know what it means, even though it would be the most significant environmental legislation to come out of Congress in recent history.

U.S. Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., wants to make it easier for citizen groups to help clean up the thousands of historic mine sites that litter the West.

Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet is replacing his chief of staff with the former political director of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign.

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When Michael Bennet was tapped to fill Colorado's U.S. Senate vacancy in January, it didn't sit well with Diane Rubenstein.

On a hot spring evening in early May--the kind that elicits nervous global-warming jokes--a crowd of powerful and wealthy people are gathered at a cocktail party in the banquet hall in the Hart Senate Office building on Capitol Hill, sipping wine and talking carbon.

Despite repeated assertions from political parties that primaries are encouraged, behind-the-scenes intra-party squabbles give political insiders reason to be nervous.

Obama endorsed incumbent U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet on Thursday in a primary race that has barely begun.

President Obama has weighed into the competitive Colorado Senate primary, offering his support to Sen.

Fort Collins families escaping domestic violence got a major lift Thursday when the Justice Department announced a $500,000 grant for Crossroads Safehouse.

Former Speaker of the House Andrew Romanoff will launch his bid Sen. Michael Bennet's seat in a Pueblo event Wednesday.