Press Releases
DENVER – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, announced that Seiji Hewson, a student at Colorado's Finest Alternative Arts School, won the 2010 First Congressional District Arts Competition. As part of the award, Mr. Hewson's pencil and watercolor piece titled "The Lost World", will be displayed in the Cannon Tunnel of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. He will also accompany Rep. DeGette to a special reception.
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. By a vote of (219 to 212) on the Senate Amendments to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R.
"Madame Speaker, just as when building a house, you have to first put down a foundation. Today, we are laying the foundation for a health care system that will provide every American access to high-quality care.
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.
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.
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. antitrust laws and subject health insurers to the same good-competition laws that apply to virtually every other company doing business in the United States. Rep. DeGette was an original cosponsor of similar legislation approved by the House Judiciary Committee.
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.
The Fisher House will provide on-site residential housing facilities for families of active duty and veteran patients receiving care at the VA Medical Center.