Caitlyn Kim

1 week ago | ksjd.org | Caitlyn Kim

Housing. That’s the reason Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah said he’s pushing for public lands sales to be included in his party’s big tax and spending bill. Updated text of Lee’s proposal zeroes in on housing. An earlier version would have privatized land for “any associated community needs.” Now that phrase has changed to “any associated infrastructure to support local housing needs” to hammer home that point.

2 weeks ago | ksut.org | Caitlyn Kim

Last month, Democratic Rep. Joe Neguse succeeded in getting a provision to sell public lands in western states removed from Republicans’ giant reconciliation package. “I’m proud of the work that we did, building a bipartisan coalition and exposing some sunlight on that pernicious provision that would’ve sold off hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in Utah and Nevada, and that our work was successful in removing that from the bill,” he said. But that victory may be short-lived.

2 weeks ago | ksut.org | Megan Verlee |Caitlyn Kim

Updated at 4:34 p.m. on Thursday, June 12, 2025. “This type of stuff happens in dictatorships, not democracies.”That was the conclusion of Democratic Rep. Jason Crow in a post on X highlighting a video of California Sen. Alex Padilla being forcibly removed from a press briefing Thursday by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. Padilla interrupted Noem’s press conference and attempted to shout questions at her before being pushed out of the room by uniformed and plainclothes security.

2 weeks ago | ksut.org | Caitlyn Kim

“We convene today in the shadow of a deeply unsettling trend, the continuing rise in antisemitic attacks across the United States,” GOP Rep. August Pfluger of Texas said as he opened a House Homeland Security subcommittee hearing on “The Rise of Anti-Israel Extremist Groups and Their Threat to U.S. National Security” Wednesday. The hearing came on the heels of the Boulder fire attack, the murder of two Israeli embassy staffers in Washington, D.C., and an arson attack against Pennsylvania Gov.

1 month ago | durangoherald.com | Caitlyn Kim

Lawmakers agree its an unsafe situation that needs addressing More than a week after a brief loss of communications between air traffic controllers and planes over Colorado, Colorado’s federal lawmakers are still seeking answers. “It just pisses me off,” said Democratic Sen. John Hickenlooper, who sits on the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation committee, which has oversight over the Federal Aviation Administration.