I want all the interested parties to come together and develop a solution that provides additional water and helps the lower Arkansas River communities thrive again.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is one of my personal heroes.

On the Native American front, we have turned a new page in the 400-year history of the interface between the American settlers of this country and the nation's first Americans. That's included a new relationship where the sovereignty of tribes is in fact recognized.

I'm proud that Colorado delivered a victory to Barack Obama in 2008 and we will do so again in 2012.

Too often in Washington special interests urge us to fight one another just because we belong to different parties. It is time for this to stop and for Washington to focus on what needs to be done.

The way Americans most understand the history of Latinos in this country, a lot of it is being told now through the lens of what's happening with the immigration debate. While that's an important debate that has security and moral implications, in my view, there's also a huge history of Latinos in the United States that's never been told.

Hydraulic fracking is very much a necessary part of the future of natural gas.