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June 24, 2009

Secretary Confident Obama Administration Will Fulfill Bill's Mandate and Develop Pediatric Quality Measures

June 19, 2009
Members of the Colorado Delegation Request Interior Department Make Project Priority

June 17, 2009
DeGette's Mandatory Recall Authority and Traceability Included in Comprehensive Food Safety Bill

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, offered the following remarks at the full committee mark-up of the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009. U.S. Rep. DeGette is an original cosponsor of the legislation along with Chairman Henry Waxman, Chairman Emeritus John Dingell, U.S. Reps. Frank Pallone, Bart Stupak, and Betty Sutton.

June 9, 2009

DENVER – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) delivered the undergraduate commencement address at the University of Denver on Saturday, June 6th. Below is a copy of her remarks as prepared for delivery.

REMARKS

Thank you. I want to thank Chancellor (Robert) Coombe, the Board of Trustees, President and the entire University of Denver community for inviting me to join you and for honoring me today as a member of the DU Family.

June 9, 2009

American Public Deserves to Know Chemicals Used Near Their Water Sources

June 3, 2009
Mandatory Recall Authority and Traceability Included in Omnibus Food Safety Bill

June 1, 2009

WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY), Co-Chairs of the Bipartisan Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, joined U.S. Rep. Henry A. Waxman (D-CA), Chairman of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, today in expressing sadness over the murder of Dr. George Tiller, Medical Director of Women's Health Care Services in Wichita, Kansas.

May 27, 2009

WASHINGTON, DC — Today Chair Emeritus John D. Dingell, Chairs Henry A. Waxman, Frank Pallone, and Bart Stupak, and Reps. Diana DeGette and Betty Sutton released a discussion draft of the Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009.

May 27, 2009

WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Michael Castle (R-DE), chief architects of bipartisan legislation overturning former President George W. Bush's restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, today led a group of 139 bipartisan Members of Congress in submitting comments to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on the draft guidelines for human stem cell research.

U.S. Reps. DeGette and Castle, along with 137 other Members of Congress, wrote: