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WASHINGTON — The House passed a bill on Friday that would provide five years of funds for the popular Children's Health Insurance Program, over vehement objections from Democrats who opposed the way it would be financed.
The vote, 242 to 174, came a month after funds for the program expired.
Republicans slipped anti-abortion language into the draft of the tax reform bill they released on Thursday. The move is part of an effort by the Trump administration and House Republicans to define life as beginning at conception, with an eye to rolling back Roe v. Wade.
Op-Ed by Congresswoman Diana DeGette
When is "enough" really going to be enough? With each mass shooting, we grieve, console the families, commend the heroes, condemn the killers and say, "Enough." And then … nothing happens.
We knew it wouldn't be long before Congress demanded action in response to the Equifax data breach—particularly since several of its members are among the 143 million Americans who are pissed about having their Social Security numbers and other personal data exposed.
Rep. Diana DeGette saw the public-private partnership in action on Auraria via MSU Denver's new Aerospace and Engineering Sciences.
DeGette toured Auraria campus' new AES Building on Aug. 24 with the hope to attract growth in the science, technology, engineering and math fields in Colorado.
"More importantly it'll train the next generation of workers so that people can get the skills they need to get those high paying jobs. If the citizens have jobs then the economy is helped," DeGette said regarding the potential impact of the new AES building.
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Denver Democrat, is co-sponsoring a House resolution introduced Wednesday to censure President Donald Trump for his response to the weekend's violence surrounding a rally by white nationalists in Charlottesville, Va.
"I'm co-sponsoring a resolution to censure @POTUS for defending white supremacists in #Charlottesville," DeGette wrote in a tweet Wednesday afternoon. "Our leaders must not condone hate."
Democratic lawmakers are demanding answers from President Trump's top telecom regulator about an obscure policy change that will allow a pro-Trump media giant to grow even larger.
Two lawmakers from opposite sides of the aisle have teamed up to ask three powerful health care industries to explain the rising cost of insulin, an essential treatment for people with diabetes.
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette on Monday called for a stop to the "hyperpartisan" politics she says are fueling the GOP health care bill that — along with President Donald Trump's proposed budget cuts — would slash money from programs that help more than half a million Colorado children.
"This is going to jeopardize the welfare of so many children," the Denver Democrat said at a news conference at Denver's Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children. "We can't sustain this ongoing assault to our health care."
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette said Wednesday that the firing of FBI Director James Comey is the "latest shenanigan" by President Donald Trump's administration amid investigations into his 2016 campaign's ties to the Russian government.
"I think some Republicans are beginning to come to the realization that where there is smoke there is fire and we better get to the bottom of what's going on here," the Denver Democrat said after an event downtown. "No amount of firings or personnel changes by the Trump administration can mask that."