Press Releases

DeGette and Dent Introduce Bipartisan Stem Cell Legislation

June 19, 2013

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Charlie Dent (R-PA) introduced the bipartisan Stem Cell Research Advancement Act, to ensure a lasting framework for ethical embryonic stem cell research at the National Institutes for Health (NIH), and to bring certainty to the scientific community pursuing research that could produce life-saving cures and treatments.

DeGette & Pro-Choice Caucus Stand United Against House GOP’s Extreme Abortion Measure

June 18, 2013

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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.

DeGette Statement On Updated BLM Draft Rule For Fracking On Public Lands

May 16, 2013

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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.

DeGette And Gibson Introduce Bipartisan FRAC Act

May 9, 2013

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WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) joined with her colleague Rep.

DeGette Applauds Senate Committee’s Unanimous Passage Of Hydropower Bill

May 8, 2013

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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.

Congresswoman Diana DeGette Announces Winner of First District Congressional Art Competition

May 2, 2013

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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.

Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus Praises Re-Introduction of Employment Non-Discrimination Act

April 25, 2013

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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.

DeGette Opening Statement at Hearing on Compounding Pharmacies and the 2012 Fungal Meningitis Outbreak

April 16, 2013

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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).

DeGette Statement On Continuing Resolution Vote

March 21, 2013

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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.

Diabetes Caucus Co-Chairs DeGette & Whitfield Introduce Key Bipartisan Medicare Legislation

March 19, 2013

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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.