Today marked the first day of Colorado's legislative session. Want to know what your lawmakers have planned? Talk today focused on guns, housing and the water crisis.
An era of historic Democratic control in the state Capitol began Monday, with leaders laying out a vision for what those mandates could achieve as Republicans were left hoping for a voice — and promising to put up a fight for their values.
Sullivan, a longtime gun safety advocate whose son was murdered in the 2012 Aurora theater massacre, said the emphasis on gun safety — and what he called the public health crisis of shootings — was a “180-degree difference” from last year’s opening day. He acknowledged that some lawmakers are looking at defining and outright banning assault-style weapons, too. The text of that bill, released partially by Republican officials, was not yet available Monday, and one of the bill’s sponsors declined to comment.
Fenberg, in remarks outlining legislative priorities that include preventing gun violence, cited it as an example of how the prevalence of guns makes Colorado less safe. In a “civilized society,” he said, people should be able to expect security and safety — and “we must be willing to consider that there are some people who are not fit to possess a deadly weapon.”
Democrats won historic majorities in the General Assembly in November, defying prognosticators and the party’s own expectations of losing seats in the House and possibly their majority in the Senate. Instead, they secured a two-to-one supermajority in the House and are one seat shy of that threshold in the Senate.
In the House, the tone was more strained. Historically, the election of the speaker — chosen weeks ahead of time by the majority party and a foregone conclusion by the time lawmakers return to the Capitol — is a unanimous, bipartisan vote. As Lundeen had done in the Senate, Lynch, the top Republican in the House, rose to further that tradition and support the nomination of McCluskie.
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