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John Hickenlooper

U.S. Senator, United States Senate · 1 appearance on the record.

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Before entering politics, Hickenlooper co-founded the Wynkoop Brewing Company and served as Mayor of Denver and Governor of Colorado. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2020 and authored the memoir The Opposite of Woe: My Life in Beer and Politics.

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1 prediction · 5 assertions · 1 opinion · 1 disclosure · 1 what if · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how John argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Hickenlooper: New DOI rules require three appointee review levels for projects
“The Department of Interior now is creating new rules that requires, you know, three different levels of political appointees to review each, you know, every action that the DOI, the Department of Interior takes, which is gonna, you know, it's gonna slow down a…”
John Hickenlooper Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 23:14 John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition

Their most notable contradicted claim

Assertion Contradicted
Hickenlooper: House reconciliation bill proposed taxing all wind and solar energy
“The House bill came over and it had a tax on all wind energy and solar energy. So no, no longer are we going to give them tax credits, but we're going to, you know, we're going to tax them.”
John Hickenlooper Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 18:21 John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition

How they sound: not measured why? →

We measure speaking style by listening to the audio itself, and a fair number needs at least 2,000 words from one person on tape we have measured. There is too little of John Hickenlooper on measured tape to publish a rate. This says nothing about how they speak.

Everything John Hickenlooper said on the Green Blueprint that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Assertion Contradicted
Hickenlooper: House reconciliation bill proposed taxing all wind and solar energy
“The House bill came over and it had a tax on all wind energy and solar energy. So no, no longer are we going to give them tax credits, but we're going to, you know, we're going to tax them.”
John Hickenlooper Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 18:21 John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition
Opinion
Hickenlooper: Environmental nonprofits fund overhead by opposing and slowing development
“Part of it is we have to recognize that all these non, non-profit organizations, they are organisms. They have a life of their own, and like any organism, they're gonna, they don't wanna make themselves extinct. And so they've been raising money to pay for the…”
John Hickenlooper Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 30:50 John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Hickenlooper: Manchin secretly remained in IRA talks despite public walkout
“He told the press he was out, he was done. I saw him the next morning, had a nice, 15 minute happy chat, and I said, well, you're not really Over, you're not quitting, right? And he goes, no, but I'm going to let him think it for a while. Just I need space. Yo…”
John Hickenlooper Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 4:15 John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition
What-if
Hickenlooper: IRA would have been 5x larger under progressive Democrats' plan
“Trust me, if the progressive part of the Democratic Party had gotten their way, this bill would have been five times bigger than it ended up being.”
John Hickenlooper Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 6:42 John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition
Assertion Partly supported
Hickenlooper: 85% of IRA Renewable Investments Go to Red States
“So, 85% of the Inflation Reduction Act, environmental, you know, renewable energy investments were going into red states. Two-thirds of the jobs are in red states.”
John Hickenlooper Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 11:46 John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition
Assertion Supported
Hickenlooper: New DOI rules require three appointee review levels for projects
“The Department of Interior now is creating new rules that requires, you know, three different levels of political appointees to review each, you know, every action that the DOI, the Department of Interior takes, which is gonna, you know, it's gonna slow down a…”
John Hickenlooper Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 23:14 John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Hickenlooper: 25% to 33% chance permitting reform passes in three years
“Well, let's say in the next three years, I think it's got a, I don't know, 25, 30, 33% chance.”
John Hickenlooper Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 30:39 John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition
Disclosure
Hickenlooper hosted dinners with Rio Tinto's CEO and environmental leaders
“So that's one place where, you know, I've done dinners at my house where I had the CEO of Rio Tinto and some of the largest mining companies sitting with the CEOs of a couple of the largest nonprofit environmental communities, just describing, don't we have an…”
John Hickenlooper Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 28:46 John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition
Assertion Supported
Hickenlooper: Power turbine procurement lead times are four to six years
“It takes, it's four to six years to get a turbine from GE or whoever manufactures the turbines but four to six years to get one, that's a long time to wait when you're trying to ramp up capacity in, in the short term.”
John Hickenlooper Aug 27, 2025 ▶ 19:29 John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition

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Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
John Hickenlooper’s optimism in the face of opposition Aug 27, 2025 23m
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