Regional meetings of the Governor's TBD Colorado program begin next month. The TBD Board expects to "develop pragmatic, realistic solutions and consensus on big issues facing Colorado." The Board states that "TBD Colorado will focus on important issues in the state including," education (both P-12 and higher education), health, transportation,...

February, 2012. The Congress and state legislature are back to work. Congressional and state political leaders have set their agendas. Candidates are adopting their slogans and bylines in preparation for November.

And for another year, these present and future elected officials delay work on the fundamental problems facing the country...

Creating jobs while transforming our economy into one that emphasizes production and investment over consumption and debt is essential to the long term prosperity of America. In order to do so, we must understand that our economy runs on people, energy and trade and that we must invest in all...

What further proof do you need, business leaders, bankers, citizens and voters, that Mike Coffman has little interest in solutions, in helping small business, job creation or the prosperity of this community? Recently, our representative here in Colorado's 6th District voted no on HR 5297 (June 17, 2010).

Two...

Colorado's Senators Udall and Bennet, along with Representative Perlmutter and other important leaders, saved the ORION manned space vehicle. ORION is important to the national space program, to Lockheed Martin, one of CD 6's most prominent employers, and to our communities for all of the secondary jobs the program creates....

In his editorial on the recently passed health care reform bill published March 21, 2010 in the Denver Post, Rep. Coffman (CO-6) asserts that statements from the CBO and Democrats are utterly false. That takes some guts given that in January, 2009 Mr. Coffman referred to a non-existent CBO report...

We need to create jobs. In our district* and throughout America we do not produce enough goods for trade, goods that permit us to thrive in the world economy. Many of the surrounding communities and districts have been successful in bringing in high technology businesses that produce goods such as...

As President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates review our nation's strategy in Afghanistan, it is my position that the United States must begin to withdraw ground combat units from Afghanistan by September 2010. An immediate reduction in the number of U.S. combat troops would be irresponsible. It...