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Colorado Congresswoman Diana DeGette and Maryland Rep. John Sarbanes talked to a Denver crowd Tuesday about a bill intended to fight back against big money campaign finance.
Sarbanes introduced the Government By the People Act, which would employ a three-step approach to address campaign finance reform, in January of 2015 meant to give average Americans more power to influence elections, the Democrat said to an audience gathered inside the Community College of Denver.
Any illusion that the first hearing of the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives wasn’t a shrouded partisan attack on abortion rights vanished in the first minutes of the nearly four-hour hearing on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON — Facing hundreds of millions of dollars in lawsuits, the giant biotechnology company Monsanto last year received a legislative gift from the House of Representatives, a one-paragraph addition to a sweeping chemical safety bill that could help shield it from legal liability for a toxic chemical only it made.
Following the World Health Organization’s declaration that the Zika virus, which is transmitted by mosquitos and may cause birth defects, is a public health emergency, Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) and bipartisan leaders from the House Energy and Commerce Committee today reached outto U.S. government health experts. The leaders requested briefings in the immediate future from Dr. Thomas Frieden, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Dr. Nicole Lurie, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and Dr.
WASHINGTON — Congress is filled with traditions and one of the most cherished — if not occasionally ridiculed — is the ritual of lawmakers making bets whenever their team makes the Big Game.
Sports-crazy Colorado is no exception and the last few days have been filled with the announcements of various wagers between Broncos fans and supporters of that other team from the South somewhere.
U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, R-Windsor, was the first to kick off the Super Bowl madness.
Five members of Congress, including Denver Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette, are calling on their Republican colleagues to end the investigations into Planned Parenthood.
The request comes in the wake of a grand jury indictment in Texas against David Daleiden and Sandra S. Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress, the producers of heavily-edited and widely-discredited videos that purported to show Planned Parenthood officials engaging in the illegal sale of fetal tissue.
Renewable energy rules, federal highway funds and charging local tax on Internet sales were among issues discussed when Englewood City Council members met with U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Democrat who represents Colorado’s 1st Congressional District.
DeGette said one issue on the tentative congressional agenda is to overhaul the 2005 energy act, which could benefit residents, companies and local governments.
In his final State of the Union Address, President Obama announced that Vice President Joe Biden — who last year lost his son to brain cancer — would spearhead a "moonshot" to cure cancer.
At the University of Colorado Cancer Center, we already take part in research and data gathering to contribute to the vice president's mission.
In his final State of the Union Address, President Obama announced that after losing a son to brain cancer, Vice President Joe Biden would spearhead a “moonshot” to cure cancer. At the University of Colorado Cancer Center, we already take part in research and data gathering to contribute to the vice president’s mission.
WASHINGTON — Among the invited guests at Tuesday night’s State of the Union address are five Coloradans with a wide range of life experiences — each brought to the speech by a Colorado lawmaker for a different reason.
They include an imam from the Denver area, a 12-year-old activist with cerebral palsy, a former Denver mayor, the mother of one of the victims of the 2012 Aurora movie shooting and the father of a combat veteran who killed himself.