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Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette's bill promoting energy conservation and encouraging innovations in LED lighting was signed into law today.
"In an era of intense partisanship, it is heartening to see Congress and the White House agree to codify a necessary improvement that will benefit industry and consumers alike," DeGette said. "I hope to see similar, common-sense efforts in this new year and will continue working toward that."
Washington, DC – In their continuing inquiry into skyrocketing costs for insulin, Diabetes Caucus co-chairs Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) today sent five more letters to health care industry stakeholders seeking further information about health plan benefit design and drug discount programs offered by pharmaceutical companies.
Washington, DC —Congresswoman Diana DeGette (CO-1) and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (NY-25), co-chairs of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, today blasted the Trump administration for continuing to prevent immigrant minors in federal shelters from accessing safe and legal reproductive health services even in cases of rape and incest.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, said the Trump Administration's guidance today encouraging state officials to impose work requirements on Medicaid recipients would keep Americans in need from getting vital health care services while perpetuating a politically biased and cruel narrative of the so-called "undeserving poor."
Colorado's congressional delegation convened an emergency meeting Tuesday in Washington, D.C., to shore up protections for state-legal marijuana operations and, in turn, states' rights.
In the meeting, members advanced plans for federal marijuana protections and honed near- and long-term strategies to counter U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions' rescission of the 2013 Cole Memo.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, said if the Justice Department urges federal prosecutors to more aggressively enforce marijuana laws in states such as Colorado that have legalized sales of the drug, it will undermine people's rights and jeopardize an important industry.
The U.S. Senate has passed a bill that promotes energy conservation and encourages innovations in LED lighting, authored by Congresswoman Diana DeGette, D-Colo. The bill heads to President Trump's desk to be signed into law.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), author of a bill promoting energy conservation and encouraging innovations in LED lighting that passes the House in January, hailed last night's Senate passage of the bill and anticipated that it would be signed into law soon.
Washington, DC – The co-chairs of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Louise Slaughter (D-NY), today called on the leadership of the House Judiciary Committee to subpoena Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) officials involved in a decision to deny a 17-year-old rape victim her right to have an abortion.
From Colorado Politics
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Democrat from Denver, plans to co-sponsor a bill next month to reverse last week's administrative decision that eliminated net neutrality.
Net neutrality was a rule requiring internet service providers to treat all internet data the same.
In other words, Comcast, Verizon, AT&T and other internet service providers could not charge differently by user, content or website. They also were banned from slowing down or speeding up access to some internet content based on preferential status.