NEWS RELEASE
U.S. SENATOR JOHN HICKENLOOPER
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In case you missed it, U.S. Senator John Hickenlooper held a virtual town hall yesterday to answer Coloradans’ questions on infrastructure, climate change, voting rights, and more.
Coloradans submitted more than 1,000 questions and at least 600 people tuned into the event live. Full video of the event can be found HERE.
On what the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill means for Colorado:
Hickenlooper: “$3.7 billion for federal aid for highways and $225 million for bridges. For broadband, Colorado’s allocation will be a minimum of $100 million… There's also money for public transportation, almost a billion dollars in Colorado. And as I said before, these electric vehicle charging networks, when you put all that in, you get over $57 million in Colorado.”
On the fight for voting rights:
Hickenlooper: “I think what’s going on right now is troubling, because we see what are fairly transparent attempts to disenfranchise large numbers of voters… I think if we were able to do the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, if we were able to piece together some of these different bills, and really focus on making sure we have election systems where people can’t cheat and where everybody is encouraged to vote.”
On climate change:
Hickenlooper: “Climate is the existential challenge of our lives. And every report that we get shows that climate change is accelerating faster than was previously believed… If we pass both the infrastructure bill and reconciliation we will deliver more resources to fight climate change than at any time in history.”
On Afghanistan and Afghan refugees:
Hickenlooper: “I believe very strongly that the Afghans who embraced us and embraced our values -- those who risked their lives on our behalf -- deserve our support. We should do everything we can to get them out, to make sure that they are going to have a chance to create a new life for themselves.”
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