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WASHINGTON – As Congress prepares to vote on H.R. 1, the AmericanRecovery and Reinvestment Act, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), ViceChair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce Committee, is pleasedthat the increase in funding allocations she secured forDisproportionate Share Hospitals (DSH) is included in the finalcompromise package.

WASHINGTON – As the investigation into the salmonella outbreak inpeanuts and peanut butter continues, U.S. Rep.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of theCommittee on Energy and Commerce, today offered the following statementafter Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced details of a newcomprehensive energy plan for the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS),including repealing the Bush Administration's midnight timetable forits five-year offshore drilling plan:

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of theCommittee on Energy and Commerce, today offered the following commentsregarding reports that Colorado State health officials areinvestigating an outbreak of a serious strain of E. coli that may belinked to last month's National Western Stock Show.

WASHINGTON – As the salmonella outbreak in peanuts and peanut buttercontinues to raise concerns over the safety of our food supply, U.S.Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy andCommerce, today reintroduced two key food safety priorities. First, theSAFER Act gives the federal government the authority to order a recall of tainted foods.

WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, today hailed the Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act of 2009introduced by Chairman Emeritus John Dingell (D-MI), Chairman BartStupak (D-MI), and Chairman Frank Pallone Jr.

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