Press Releases

Washington, DC —As President Trump prepares to convene the first meeting of his Advisory Commission on Election Integrity tomorrow, Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), together with more than 70 other House members, is urging Commission Vice Chair Kris Kobach to withdraw his request for voter registration data since it raises significant security and privacy concerns. Their letter to Kobach comes after thousands of Coloradans have canceled their voter registrations in response to the commission's request.

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) called the Senate's latest iteration of Trumpcare even more cruel than the version that the Senate abandoned last month.

"The tweaks made to the bill in the past two weeks won't address the damage it would do to millions of Americans who would lose health care or be forced to pay more for it," DeGette said. "Still included are substantial and heartless cuts to Medicaid, significantly higher costs for working families and seniors, and provisions that gut protections for those with pre-existing conditions.

WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) and a bipartisan group of her House and Senate colleagues have introduced a bill providing fourth graders and their families free entrance to all federally-managed lands, waters and historic sites, including national parks – more than 2,000 sites in all.

The Every Kid Outdoors Act is meant to encourage kids to get outdoors and experience America's public spaces while engaging in healthy activity and educational programs.

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) today teamed up with Congressman Leonard Lance (R-NJ) on a bipartisan effort to improve clinical trials that was unanimously passed as part of the FDA Reauthorization Act. The effort will improve the way clinical trials are conducted to better measure the patient experience and ultimately help create better medicines and devices for the patient market.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Representatives Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Lynn Jenkins (R-KS) have introduced the Preventing Diabetes in Medicare Act of 2017 (H.R. 3124) to help curb America's diabetes epidemic. This bill will allow Medicare coverage of Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT) services for people with prediabetes and other risk factors for developing Type 2 diabetes.

WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) has teamed up with colleagues to introduce bipartisan legislation that lets Medicare Advantage insurance plans offer a wider array of benefits to chronically ill enrollees. The bill, H.R. 3044, waives uniformity requirements among Medicare Advantage plans and lets insurers offer plans better tailored to meet the individual needs of patients with chronic illness.

Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, said the report just issued by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office on the Senate bill to dismantle the Affordable Care Act shows this latest iteration of Trumpcare will harm many people and lead to needless deaths.

Washington, DC – The co-chairs of the Congressional Diabetes Caucus, Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Tom Reed (R-NY), have written pointed letters to three key stakeholders to seek answers and solutions to the rising price of insulin, which millions of Americans with diabetes need in order to live.