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U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette took time this week to sit down with Denver-area reporters and the Englewood City Council to talk about the opioid crisis, movements on DACA policy for undocumented immigrants, housing and homelessness. She represents Denver, Englewood, Sheridan, Cherry Hills Village, Bow Mar and unincorporated areas west of Littleton.
Here's what the 1st Congressional District representative had to say at her Denver office to reporters May 3, and at the Englewood Civic Center May 4.
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DENVER – Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt was grilled Thursday in two U.S. House committees over a host of ethical questions related to his spending of taxpayer money and ties to lobbyists, including tough questions from Rep. Diana DeGette.
Chalk up a sharp political point in support for privacy legislation with actual teeth: In today's testimony in front of the House Energy & Commerce committee, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was asked about the outcomes of a string of legal actions against the company — most of which he claimed not to be aware of.
One which he at last said he could remember was Facebook's 2011 FTC consent decree — when the company settled over deceptive privacy practices by agreeing to make product changes opt-in and pledging to gain express consent from users to any changes going forward.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette raised the prospect that Congress might have to impose new rules on social media during a closely watched hearing Wednesday on Capitol Hill that featured Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as the witness.
"We've been relying on self-regulation in your industry for the most part," DeGette, D-Denver, told Zuckerberg. "We're trying to explore what we can do to prevent further (data) breaches."
Junior Vanessa Simkowitz and 100 of her classmates at South High School on Friday firmly rejected the idea that arming teachers is the answer to preventing mass school shootings in America.
Simkowitz especially wanted to make her stance on the issue crystal clear.
"That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard, and you can quote me on that," she said. "Why would you bring even more guns into a situation like that? It doesn't make sense."
Yesterday, U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke for eight consecutive hours on the chamber's floor about the need for immigration reform, with a particular focus on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, an endangered program that grants temporary but renewable legal status to those born outside the United States and brought here without documentation as children. Among the DACA recipients she lauded was Denver's Marco Dorado, whose inspirational story was first told in this space circa March 2017.
WASHINGTON — Diana DeGette just completed her 21st year as the Democratic congresswoman representing the district that includes the heart of Denver, making her the most senior member of the Colorado delegation and a force not to be overlooked in Washington's hard knocks politics.
While a host of big-name Democrats — Colorado House Speaker Crisanta Duran and state Sen. Angela Williams among them — are said to be biding their time for a shot to take DeGette's place in D.C. as the biennial shoo-in, the congresswoman has no plans to move on after 11 terms.
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After months of sickening partisan gamesmanship, the Republican-led Congress finally renewed the Children's Health Insurance Program in January. This step provided temporary relief for children from low-income homes in Colorado and across the country, but now the very hospitals and clinics where they seek treatment are at risk.
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.
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.