Representative Brittany Pettersen was elected to serve the people of Colorado’s seventh Congressional District and she has gone the extra mile to do so — literally. She flew from Colorado to ...

Their return, including Rep. Brittany Pettersen with her newborn and Rep. Kevin Mullin with an IV, forced Republicans to scramble to just barely pass their budget bill.

The razor-thin Republican majority in Congress and a few waffling members made every vote even more meaningful than usual.

The final result wasn’t what Democrats had hoped, but Rep. Brittany Pettersen was glad she made it in time to cast a “no” vote against the House Republican’s budget blueprint Tuesday night.

Colorado, carried her newborn to vote against the GOP budget, expressing frustration over the denial of proxy voting and ...

Pettersen, a Democrat representing Colorado’s 7th Congressional District, has lobbied to allow proxy voting for new parents, but as of yet, has not been allowed under House rules to vote remotely.

Representative Brittany Pettersen was elected to serve the people of Colorado’s third Congressional District and she has gone the extra mile to do so — literally. She flew from Colorado to ...