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March 5, 2018

Junior Vanessa Simkowitz and 100 of her classmates at South High School on Friday firmly rejected the idea that arming teachers is the answer to preventing mass school shootings in America.

Simkowitz especially wanted to make her stance on the issue crystal clear.

February 22, 2018

Washington, DC -- Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, again expressed her strong opposition to repealing Obama-era Net Neutrality rules in response to the final Net Neutrality repeal order being printed in the Federal Register today.

February 15, 2018

Washington, DC – After revelations today by the Washington Post about continued unlawful behavior by Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement Scott

February 15, 2018

Washington, DC Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, decried the way in which legislation that the House passed today on a nearly a party-line vote would undermine the long-standing protections of the Americans With Disabilities Act, which was approved 28 years ago with strong bipartisan support and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.

February 13, 2018

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Ranking Member on the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, joined every fellow Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee in sending a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit

February 12, 2018

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, strongly condemned alleged Trump administration collusion with an extreme anti-choice group in an effort to restrict Medicaid recipients' access to Planned Parenthood. The allegations are based on new information released by Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

February 12, 2018

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, called President Donald J. Trump's new budget proposal irresponsible, bad for the country overall and harmful to Colorado in particular.

February 9, 2018

Washington, DC -- Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, issued the following statement after voting against the "Bipartisan Budget Act" early this morning:

February 8, 2018

Washington, DC – Today Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, joined 74 Democratic House members in sending a letter to Homeland Security Secretary KirstjenNielsen expressing profound concern with the Department of Homeland Security's practice of se

February 8, 2018

Yesterday, U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke for eight consecutive hours on the chamber's floor about the need for immigration reform, with a particular focus on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, an endangered program that grants temporary but renewable legal status to those born outside the United States and brought here without documentation as children.