Press Releases
August 30, 2013
DENVER – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-1) released the following statement today urging President Obama seek a Congressional vote before any use of military force against Syria:
August 29, 2013
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) joined over 50 colleagues in the U.S. House of Representatives in a letter calling on President Obama to fully inform Congress on actions against Syria following reported use of chemical weapons and to allow Congress to exercise its constitutional authority to approve military force.
August 28, 2013
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) released the following statement commemorating the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington:
August 26, 2013
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) commented on the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) revised proposed rule for hydraulic fracturing, better known as "fracking", in a letter to U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell. Rep. DeGette's comment encourages BLM to require baseline testing of nearby water sources prior to and after the drilling process. In addition, Rep.
August 9, 2013
Colorado lawmaker replaces Senator Markey
WASHINGTON: Rep. Joe Barton (R-TX), co-founder of the Congressional Bi-Partisan Privacy Caucus, proudly announced Rep. Diane DeGette (D-CO) as the group's new co-chair. She replaces Sen. Edward Markey (D-MA), who recently won a special election to fill Massachusetts' open Senate seat.
August 9, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) hailed President Obama's signing of H.R. 267, the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act into law. The law, co-authored with Rep.
August 2, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), authors of H.R. 267, the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act, hailed the unanimous approval of their bill in the U.S. Senate last night.
August 1, 2013
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-1) offered the following opening statement at the Committee on Energy and Commerce's hearing on implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
July 31, 2013
WASHINGTON – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Louise M. Slaughter(D-NY), Co-Chairs of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, released the following statement commemorating tomorrow's one-year anniversary of theAffordable Care Act's (ACA) preventive health services provision forwomen.
July 19, 2013
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-1) submitted the following statement to the Congressional Record to mark the one-year anniversary of the shootings at an Aurora theater that claimed the lives of 12 individuals, and injured 70 more.