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March 22, 2010

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, today applauded passage of historic health care legislation to provide Americans with access to affordable health insurance coverage.

March 22, 2010
WASHINGTON – This evening, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee, delivered a speech on the House floor supporting historic health reform legislation. Below are U.S. Rep. DeGette's remarks as prepared for delivery:

March 18, 2010

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, praised EPA's announcement today that it is re-allocating $1.9 million for a comprehensive study of hydraulic fracturing.

March 11, 2010
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce and member of the Committee on Natural Resources, released this statement on today's hearing on H.R. 4289, Colorado Wilderness Act of 2009.

March 4, 2010
WASHINGTION –U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, supported H.R. 2487, the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act, which passed on a bipartisan vote of 217 – 201.

March 4, 2010

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), congratulated the State of Colorado today as one of the 16 finalists for the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top competition. The awards given are estimated to be between $20 and $700 million. Colorado's proposal requests $377 million to be used over four years for innovative school reform.

February 24, 2010

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, praised today's passage of the Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act (H.R. 4626). This legislation would repeal the McCarran-Ferguson Act exemption from U.S.

February 22, 2010

Washington, D.C. – Today the Colorado Congressional Delegation sent a letter to VA Secretary Eric Shinseki seeking support and funding to build a new 20-bed stand-alone Fisher House near the new VA Medical Center at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.

February 18, 2010

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, today applauded the Committee's intent to investigate hydraulic fracturing: