Press Releases
June 18, 2013
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY), co-chairs of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, joined several other Members in speaking out against the extreme legislation advancing today in the House that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks, with no exception to protect a woman's health.
May 16, 2013
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-1) released the following statement regarding the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) updated draft rule for hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") on public lands.
May 9, 2013
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) joined with her colleague Rep.
May 8, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. DeGette (D-CO) applauded the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee's unanimous passage of S. 545, a companion bill to H.R. 267, the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act (HREA). This bipartisan legislation, authored by U.S. Reps.
May 2, 2013
DENVER – Today, Congresswoman Diana DeGette (CO-01) announced that Brianna Litzman, senior at Chatfield Senior High School, has won Colorado's First Congressional District Art Competition with her photograph entitled, The Abandoned. The judges of the annual competition consisted of volunteers from the local art community.
April 25, 2013
Washington, DC – Today the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus (Equality Caucus) praised the re-introduction of the bipartisan Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
April 16, 2013
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-1) presided as Ranking Member of the Oversight and Investigation Subcommittee's hearing investigating last October's fungal meningitis outbreak and the lack of sufficient regulation over the compounding pharmacy industry. The outbreak was caused by contaminated steroid injections manufactured at the New England Compounding Company (NECC).
March 21, 2013
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-1) issued the following statement after voting against Senate Amendment to H.R. 933, a Continuing Resolution that funds the federal government through September 30th of this year.
March 19, 2013
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representatives Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Ed Whitfield (R-KY), Co-chairs of the Congressional Diabetes Caucus, introduced the Access to Quality Diabetes Education Act, and the Preventing Diabetes in Medicare Act. Both bills provide critical support to Medicare beneficiaries who are diabetic or prediabetic.
March 8, 2013
WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (CO-D) and Mike Coffman (CO-R) re-introduced the "Respect States' and Citizens' Rights Act" which would ensure that state laws regarding marijuana will not be pre-empted by the federal government.