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First Lady Speaks At Wounded Warrior Games

Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Michael Bennet, Wounded Soldiers, Wounded Warrior Games, Michelle Obama, Colorado Springs Wounded Warrior Games, Colorado Springs, Veterans, Denver News

First Lady Michelle Obama paid tribute to over 200 wounded servicemen at the opening ceremony for the third annual Wounded Warrior Games held in Color...

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Dems: Investigate Rove's Secret Money Group

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 02.16.2012

WASHINGTON -- Seven Democratic senators sent a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) calling for an investigation into social welfare nonprofit...

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Immigration's Top 10 Heroes for 2012

Amy Novick | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Chuck Schumer, Lisa Murkowski, Immigration Reform, Randy Parraz, Luis Gutierrez, Undocumented Immigrants, Michael Bloomberg, Bob Menendez, Michael Bennet, Immigration, Nan Orrock, Arizona Immigration Law, Zoe Lofgren, Rashida Tlaib, Politics News

The 2012 Immigrants' List Annual Heroes come from across the country, and work to positively impact policies on immigration. We are grateful for their work and excited to honor their achievements.

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Bennet Introduces Visa Reform Bill

Posted 12.13.2011

Read More: Foreign Students, Denver News, Michael Bennet, STEM Visa Act, Green Cards, K-12-Stem-Education, Colorado, Video, DREAM Act, Temporary Student Visas, Work Visas, Visa Reform, Denver Colorado, STEM Education, Sen. Bennet, Denver News

U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today unveiled a bill to create a new green card category for foreign students pursuing advanced degrees in science, techn...

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Inequity In America's Schools, By The Numbers

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: Education News, Leadership Conference, Education, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Department of Education, Arne Duncan, Comparability, Arra, No Child Left Behind, Michael Bennet, Stimulus Act, Education Funding, Education Inequity, Education News

It's been long suspected that schools serving low-income students receive less money to pay their teachers than those in nearby affluent schools. Now ...

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WATCH: Bennet Gives Congress A Shellacking

Posted 11.16.2011

Read More: Senator Michael Bennet, Congress, U.S. Senate, Video, Colorado Senator, Michael Bennet, Congressional Approval Ratings, Senator Bennet, Denver News

While Occupy Wall Street movements are complaining about the 1 percent, Sen. Michael Bennet voiced his dissatisfaction in Congress with a 9 percent --...

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Bennet Visits Colorado Schools Today And Tomorrow

Posted 12.24.2011

Read More: Great Principles, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Jefferson County Public Schools, Jeffco Public School, No Child Left Behind Reform, Lead Act, Colorado Senator, Michael Bennet, Sen. Michael Bennet, Michael Bennet at Wheat Ridge 5-8, Wheat Ridge, Senator Bennet, Video, Rand Paul, Senate Committee on Health-Education-Labor and Pensions, Great Principals, Senator Bennett Rand Paul, Nclb, Denver News

This morning Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet is expected to deliver remarks about the importance of hiring great principals at Jefferson County public ...

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Obama Looks To Bennet For Road Map To Winning Colo.

AP | KEN THOMAS | Posted 12.22.2011

DENVER — If you want a sense of how President Barack Obama's team intends to win in the West, look no further than Democrat Michael Bennet's suc...

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WATCH: Colorado's Politicians Celebrate Ally Week

Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Mark Udall, Video, Ally Week, Make It Better for LGBT Young People, Michael Hancock, Make It Better, Michael Bennet, Stop Bullying, Diana DeGette, One Colorado, Straight Allies, John Hickenlooper, Denver Lgbt, Albus Brooks, Denver News

One Colorado produced a video celebrating national Ally Week, honoring local straight allies of LGBT youth. The video features Democratic Sens. Mar...

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WATCH: Sen. Bennet Gets Fiery For Education Reform

Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Michael Bennet, Senator Michael Bennet, Video, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Education Reform, No Child Left Behind, Denver News

Senator Michael Bennet, Colorado's typically subdued U.S.Senator, got a little fiery yesterday in an off-the-cuff speech in Washington. Bennet, a for...

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WATCH: 'I'll Tell You What A Tragedy Is'

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.19.2011

Read More: Education News, Video, Education, Rand Paul, Richard Burr, Education Policy, National Education Association, No Child Left Behind, Al Franken, Tom Harkin, Lamar Alexander, Michael Bennet, Senate Education Committee, Education News

WASHINGTON -- Debate over the No Child Left Behind revision hit the Senate floor earlier than expected on Wednesday after Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) buste...

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Sen. Rand Paul: Slow Down Education Reform

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.18.2011

Letters and amendments are flying on the eve of the first markup of a comprehensive rewrite of the No Child Left Behind law, providing a glimpse into ...

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Colorado Senators Introduce New No Child Left Behind Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.04.2011

Read More: Education News, Esea, No Child Left Behind, Michael Bennet, Education Reform, Nclb Reauthorization, Udall No Child Left Behind, Bennet No Child Left Behind, Nclb Waivers, Barack Obama, Udall, Colorado, Education News

In the two-and-a-half weeks since President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced ways in which states could overhaul No ...

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Bring Teachers' Pay Into This Century

Sen. Michael Bennet | Posted 11.01.2011

Read More: Michael Bennet, Teacher Pay, Education, Teachers, Education Reform, Teacher Quality, Teacher Tenure, Teacher Pensions, Teachers Salary, Teacher Compensation, Education News

When women had to choose between becoming teachers or nurses, we could convince them to teach Julius Caesar for 30 years with a small salary. Not anymore.

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Duncan's Waiver Proposal Scales Back Federal Role In Education Standards Enforcement

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.09.2012

Read More: Education News, Kevin Carey, Arne Duncan, Conservatives, Federalism, No Child Left Behind, Al Franken, Michael Bennet, Education Sector, States Rights, 112th Congress, No Child Left Behind Waivers, John Kline, Tea Party, George Miller, Ed-Lection 2012, Education News

Much has been said about the ineffectiveness of No Child Left Behind, the sweeping, decade-old federal education law that uses student performance on...

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Udall, Bennet Voice Criticism Of Bill To Avoid Default

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: Mark Udall, Deficit, Debt Ceiling, Federal Budget Deficit, Denver News, Budget Cuts, Michael Bennet, Denver Colorado, U.S. Default, Denver News

Sens. Mark Udall (D-CO) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) voted for the bill to prevent a government default and lift the debt ceiling, but both are voicing c...

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Senate Democrat Disgusted With Congress

AP | Posted 09.28.2011

Read More: Tea Party Debt Ceiling, Senator Michael Bennet, Republicans Debt Ceiling, John Boehner Debt Ceiling, Debt Ceiling, Jon Boehner, Debt Limit, Michael Bennet, Michael Bennet Debt Ceiling, 112th Congress, Tea Party, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A Senate Democrat says House Speaker John Boehner's failure to get fellow Republicans to back his debt limit bill dramatizes the folly o...

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Sen. Michael Bennet Expects Senate NCLB Draft Ready By Fall

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.24.2011

WASHINGTON -- As Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) sees it, the holdup on overhauling the nation's sweeping education law, No Child Left Behind, has littl...

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Polis, Udall, Bennet All Applaud Repeal of DADT

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Jared Polis, Mark Udall, Denver News, Michael Bennet, Gays Serve Openly in Military, Gays in the Miliary, Barack Obama, Civil Rights, Don't Ask Don't Tell Repeal, Don't Ask Don't Tell, Gay Rights, Dadt Repeal, Dadt, LGBT Rights, Colorado News, Denver News

After almost two decades of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" (DADT) policy in the United States armed services, a landmark victory for gay rights was made last...

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Feds Granting FasTracks $120 Million

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 08.14.2011

Read More: Mark Udall, Denver News, Denver Light Rail, Fastracks, Rtd, Michael Bennet, Fastracks Funding, Denver Public Transit Funding, Rapid-Transit-Denver, Denver News

Denver's Regional Transportation District will receive a funding boost to the tune of $120 million, courtesy of the Federal Transit Administration. T...

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Sen. Bennet Respects Gay Marriage, Seeks Repeal Of Ban

The Huffington Post | Matt Ferner | Posted 08.10.2011

Read More: Senator Michael Bennet, Gay Rights, Denver News, Same-Sex Marriage Rights, Same-Sex Marriage Benefits, Michael Bennet, Gay Marriage, Federal Marriage Benefits, Same-Sex Marriage, Denver News

On Thursday, U.S. Senator Michael Bennet (D-CO) has signed on as a co-sponsor for a bill to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), a ban of gay ma...

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Pushing For Answers

The Huffington Post/AP | Andrea Rael | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Mark Udall, Border Violence, Congressman Cory Gardner, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Michael Bennet, Fbi, Falcon Lake, Senator Michael Bennet, Tiffany Hartley, Senator Mark Udall, Governor Hickenlooper, David Hartley, Denver News, FBI Denver, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Cory Gardner, Denver News

Colorado's elected government officials threw their support behind Tiffany Hartley today in a letter addressed to Attorney General Eric Holder and Sec...

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Opportunity Scholarships in D.C. Give Lawmakers Chance to Put Actions to Words

Malcom Glenn | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jared Polis, Education, Department of Education, Arne Duncan, Michael Bennet, Dianne Feinstein, Washington DC, Joe Lieberman, Education Reform, John Hickenlooper, Colorado, Denver News

The D.C. Opportunity Scholarship Program has improved reading scores for students involved and raised graduation rates for program participants to 91 percent.

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Lockheed Martin Unveils Spacecraft Test Facility South Of Denver

AP | DAN ELLIOTT | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Orion Project, Michael Bennet, Nasa, Space Operations Simulation Center, Lockheed Martin, Ed Perlmutter, Waterton Canyon, Denver News

DENVER — Lockheed Martin Corp. on Monday showed off a test version of the Orion spacecraft, which was initially meant to return humans to the mo...

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Senate Rejects Government Funding Bill With $60 Billion In Cuts

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- As expected, the Senate rejected on Wednesday two budget proposals that would have exacted cuts in federal spending in exchange for fund...

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