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► House Republicans may yet put a stop to a trade deal favored by President Obama, which gained initial approval from the Senate last week.
► Construction at the VA Hospital Project in Aurora will continue for about three more weeks. Congress approved a plan late last week to kick the can down the road so they could leave town for their Memorial Day recess. Meanwhile, a VA whistle blower indicates a significant lack of oversight for the hospital project. This is where we remind you that Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Aurora) is the Chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee under the House Veteran’s Affairs Committee.
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► State Treasurer Walker Stapleton is embarking on a 64-county tour of Colorado to, um…show people what a State Treasurer looks like? Try to avoid the rest of Colorado’s media contingent? We have no idea why this is happening other than for Stapleton to try to gain some name ID in advance of a future run for some other office.
► Republicans would have a better chance of winning in 2016 if they could stop white people from dying.
► Denver City Council candidate Wayne New is trying to avoid explaining why he was a registered Republican up until two months ago.
► Officials with the Jefferson County School District are being investigated for bullying a student. Yes, that is a real sentence.
► Denver Congresswoman Diana DeGette continues to pick up kudos for her legislation that seeks to speed up medical research.
► An incredible 43 percent of Colorado’s workforce does not have access to paid sick leave.
► Governor John Hickenlooper was in Pueblo on Friday to celebrate the re-opening of the Royal Gorge Bridge following a 2013 fire.
► Monte Vista city council member Matthew Martinez will seek the Democratic nomination in HD-62.
► What will Republican lawmakers do next if they are ever able to repeal Obamacare? They have no idea.
► Congratulations to the University of Denver on winning the school’s first national title in men’s lacrosse.
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