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The House is looking to use an overwhelming bipartisan vote to raise pressure on the Senate over a medical cures bill on which the upper chamber has been lagging.
The House is moving forward on its 21st Century Cures measure, aimed at speeding up the FDA's approval of new drugs and increasing funding for the National Institutes of Health.
House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) has repeatedly said he wants to get a bill signed into law before the end of the year.
MADDOW: Joining us now is Congresswoman Diana DeGette. She`s co-chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus in the House.
Congresswoman DeGette, thanks for being with us tonight. Nice to see you.
REP. DIANA DEGETTE (D), COLORADO: Good to be with you, Rachel.
MADDOW: So, I will admit to being fuzzy on the language as to what has ended up being in this new iteration of the House Republicans` abortion ban. Do you understand what it is they`re going to ask for a vote on in terms of these rape and incest provisions and all the rest?
At the time, GM insisted there were only 13 deaths attributed to the safety defect. Such a claim seemed preposterous. It turns out DeGette, a Colorado Democrat, was prescient.
A bill sponsored by a Colorado Congressman that would allow legal marijuana dispensaries access to the federal banking system has been re-introduced to the House of Representatives — but it faces long odds.
Representatives Ed Perlmutter of Colorado and Denny Heck back H.R. 2076 — the Marijuana Business Access to Banking Act of 2015.
A package of new policies aimed at getting cutting-edge medical cures to Americans more quickly is moving forward, with House lawmakers releasing the latest iteration last week. In an effort to gain bipartisan support, Republicans slashed the draft in half from an earlier version, removing one particularly controversial section giving drug developers more time to exclusively market their products and inserting more funding for the National Institutes of Health — one of Democrats' key demands.
Congresswoman Diana DeGette got a front row seat when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the White House as part of his week-long stop in the United States.
An unusual coalition of Democrats and conservative Republicans is calling for increased funding for the National Institutes of Health, but the lawmakers must contend with spending caps known as the sequester.
Bipartisan legislation introduced this week, called 21st Century Cures, would provide billions of dollars in new funding for medical research at NIH.
The caps provide a major obstacle. But coming on the heels of a major deal to reform Medicare payments, the passage of the bill would be another bipartisan accomplishment on healthcare.
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) joined with members of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health to hold the first legislative hearing on her bipartisan 21st Century Cures draft legislation. Rep. DeGette joined Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (MI-06) to introduce a discussion draft of their proposal on Tuesday along with Ranking Member Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (PA-16), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (TX-29).
COMMERCE CITY — Former U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder spent much of her political career at the helm of a movement that would transform 15,000 acres of deeply toxic land in Commerce City into the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.
On Wednesday, 18 years after Schroeder left office, nearly 100 dignitaries and community members gathered in front of the refuge's visitor center to see the unveiling of its new name: Pat Schroeder Visitor Center.
As Japan comes under increasing scrutiny of its foreign trade practices, Rep. Diana DeGette says the country's leaders realize they have to change the way they deal with global commerce.
DeGette, a Denver Democrat, is an acknowledged expert on trade between the United States and Japan, and is currently co-chair of the Congressional Study Group on Japan. Recently back from leading a delegation there, she sat down for an exclusive Greater Park Hill News interview to talk about her latest meeting with Japanese government ministers.