Press Releases

DeGette Announces Introduction of Colorado Wilderness Act

June 24, 2013

DENVER – Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-1) announced the introduction of the Colorado Wilderness Act of 2013, which proposes a balanced approach to protect 31 wilderness areas and two potential wilderness areas, totaling approximately 750,000 acres, across the state.

DeGette Statement on Farm Bill Vote

June 20, 2013

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WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-1) today issued the following statement regarding her vote against the Farm Bill, H.R. 1947. The bill failed 195 to 234. The bill would have gutted $20.5 Billion in funding for the critical Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), better known as the food stamp program. SNAP provides vital food support for over 45 million Americans, nearly half of whom are children.

DeGette and Dent Introduce Bipartisan Stem Cell Legislation

June 19, 2013

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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. The revised draft rule emphasizes the need for an up-to-date, uniform oversight and disclosure framework that would provide relief from the current patchwork of state regulations, allowing for clarifications for industry and more effective safeguards for public lands.

Rep. DeGette's statement is as follows:

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. Chris Gibson (R-NY) to introduce the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act (FRAC Act), a bipartisan bill that establishes common sense safeguards to protect groundwater from risks associated with the oil and gas drilling technique "hydraulic fracturing," better known as "fracking." The FRAC Act would require disclosure of the chemicals used in fracking fluids and would remove the oil and gas industry's exemption from the Safe Drinking Water Act. 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. DeGette and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), will facilitate the development of small hydropower projects and will direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to study the feasibility of a streamlined two-year permitting process. In February, the U.S.

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. The bill is sponsored by Representative Jared Polis (D-CO), a Co-Chair of the Equality Caucus in the House, who is joined by Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) as the lead Republican sponsor.

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).