Round-Up: Lawmakers Seek Continued Spending Ban on Pinon Canyon, and more

By On December 1, 2009 · Leave a Comment · In Agriculture/Ranching, Andrea Chalfin, AP, KRCC News, Legal Affairs, Military, Round-Up

Democratic lawmakers Senators Mark Udall and Michael Bennet, and Representatives John Salazar and Betsy Markey seek an extension of a spending ban regarding the Army’s Pinon Canyon training site…and, former Colorado Senate Minority Leader Andy McElhany files an ethics complaint.

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