Representative Ed Perlmutter News

Seven Wall Street lobbyists trooped to Capitol Hill on Nov. 9, hoping to convince Representative Paul Kanjorskia s staff that his plan to dismantle large financial firms was a bad idea.

U.S. Rep. Ed Perl mutter, D-Colo., pictured at a 9News/Denver Post health-care forum held last month, is a member of the House Financial Services Committee.

GREELEY, Colo. - Colorado Democratic Rep. Betsy Markey, along with 38 other politically-vulnerable House Democrats, bucked the Democratic caucus and voted against the Affordable Health Care for America Act, which narrowly passed the U.S. House of Representatives Saturday night on a 220-215 vote.

The U.S. House of Representatives late Saturday passed a health-care reform measure -- including a "public option" government insurance plan -- by a narrow 220-215 vote.

Here's a roundup of comments from Coloradans this week on the health-care reform proposal before the U.S. House of Representatives.

With Colorado Congresswoman Betsy Markey leading the charge, the U.S. House yesterday voted to move up the deadline for credit card companies to comply with federal credit card reform legislation.

The Center for Audit Quality and other influential organizations are asking leaders of the House Financial Services Committee to safeguard the role of the SEC in overseeing the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

Updated at 6:06 p.m. WASHINGTON -- In a sharp rebuke of Wall Street after a string of hefty bailouts last year, House Democrats are considering legislation that would let the government break up even healthy firms if regulators think they've grown too big.

Close November 3, 2009, 3:53 PM ET By Damian Paletta House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank held a press conference Tuesday on efforts to overhaul financial regulation.

The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a bill to create a new national cemetery in southern Colorado.

Banks and credit union officials described their controversial automatic overdraft protection programs - with fees that average $35 each time they are triggered - as a courtesy so customers aren't embarrassed when a store cashier denies a purchase or, worse, when a mortgage check bounces.

Oct. 19, 2009 - NAFCU President Fred Becker on Friday called on credit unions to let their U.S. House representatives know they oppose being subject to regulation by the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency and to press for an exemption for all credit unions from CFPA primary examination authority.

FATAL SHOOTING: A man was shot and killed yesterday afternoon while eating inside a popular Japanese and Chinese restaurant just off the 16th Street Mall.

More lawmakers from Colorado are charged up over credit card companies hiking rates in anticipation of federal credit card reform legislation.

Colorado U.S. Reps. Jared Polis and Ed Perlmutter signed onto a letter to the Federal Communications Commission last week Thursday that was penned by New York Democratic U.S. Rep.

A House panel is poised to give states new powers to protect bank consumers from fraud and abuse, a move that would deal a major blow to the financial industry as it struggles to regain its clout on Capitol Hill.

A Colorado congressman is proposing a tax on Wall Street in an effort to fund health care reform.

Mike May is a jolly old soul. Mike May, minority leader of the Colorado House, is coming to the end of what he calls "my eighth and final year down there" -- but he's not going quietly.

MAIL BALLOTS: Mail ballots will start arriving in Denver voters' mailboxes this weekend.

These remarks were presented on October 13, 2009 at a press conference in Aurora, CO urging Rep.