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For the U.S. Olympic Committee, this has been a year of investigations, a devastating court trial, apologies and subsequent changes in top management. The organization remains in the crosshairs of Congress and of attorneys who have filed lawsuits for sexual assaults involving hundreds of athletes.
DENVER – A bill that would establish a permanent federal program that allows fourth graders and their supervisors free entry to national public lands and waters, which has bipartisan support from most of Colorado's congressional delegation, passed the U.S. House of Representatives in a nearly unanimous vote Wednesday.
Although the majority of Americans enjoy clean drinking water, some have for decades grappled with the side effects of water contamination from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, a family of chemicals that comes from waterproofing products and firefighting foam. PFAS contamination has plagued communities across the U.S., including in El Paso County.
Despite outcry about the PFAS crisis, the Environmental Protection Agencyhas yet to set a legally binding maximum contaminant level for the chemicals. That might change soon.
A bipartisan coalition of lawmakers wants to patch up holes in hospice and palliative care for seriously ill children.
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), alongside the co-chairs of the Congressional Childhood Cancer Caucus, is pushing a proposal (H.R. 6560) to allow states to develop comprehensive care programs tailored to critically ill patients who qualify for Medicaid and their families. The programs would offer a full support package, including palliative care, counseling, respite, expressive therapy, and bereavement benefits.
For twenty years, Congresswoman Diana DeGette has tried to pass a Colorado wilderness bill. Now she's trying again: Today, July 24, DeGette introduced the Colorado Wilderness Act of 2018, which would provide federal protection for wild spaces in Colorado. If it ever passes.
DENVER (AP) — Congresswoman Diana DeGette is trying again to gain wilderness protection for 740,000 acres (299,467 hectares) of land in Colorado.
The Denver Democrat introduced the latest version of the Colorado Wilderness Act Tuesday. The parcels range from the 45,220 acre (18,300 hectares) Sewemup Mesa along the Dolores River to a 31 acre (13 hectares) addition to the Platte River Wilderness.
The first thing that struck us on entering the immigrant processing center in McAllen, Texas was the desperation: hundreds of people, scooped up by U.S. Border Patrol agents after arduous treks from Central American countries, most of them fleeing gang violence and drug cartels.
These frightened families and individuals were kept in chain-link holding cells, segregated by age and gender, trying to get warm under Mylar blankets. They were bewildered and scared. Many were worried their children would be taken.
A Republican and a Democrat from Colorado's congressional delegation traveled separately to the U.S.-Mexico border this weekend to view detention sites and tent camps for children separated from their parents. Both said President Trump's administration needs to work faster to reunite families and called for Congress to tackle broader immigration reform.
DENVER — U.S. Representative Diana DeGette joined a group of lawmakers for a tour of the U.S./Mexico border this past week on a fact-finding mission. More than two dozen lawmakers, mainly from the Democratic Women's Working Group, took part in the visit.
DeGette visited the Texas cities of McAllen and Brownsville, walked across an international bridge, stopped by an ICE processing center and detention facility and toured a tender-care facility where the children of immigrants are being held. She also spoke with about 45 mothers whose children were separated from them.
The head of a major pharmaceutical distributor apologized before Congress on Tuesday for not doing more to stop the shipment of millions of powerful prescription opioids to pharmacies in two small West Virginia towns, while another industry leader admitted that his company contributed to the nation's opioid crisis.
Cardinal Health Executive Chairman George Barrett said he is sorry that the company did not act faster to halt millions of hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to the pharmacies in West Virginia, which has the nation's highest rate of opioid overdose death.