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By Diana DeGette
Last month, President Barack Obama signed into law a bipartisan measure revolutionizing biomedicine in the United States that I co-authored: the 21st Century Cures Act.
While writing that bill with Republican Fred Upton of Michigan, I learned what this country's researchers, heath care providers, patients and private-sector stakeholders needed to modernize the federal approach to biomedicine — changes that will lead to better, faster treatment and cures.
Washington, DC – Today the House of Representatives unanimously passed the EPS Improvement Act (H.R. 518). The bill, which was written and introduced by Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), along with Representatives Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Doris Matsui (D-CA) and Charlie Dent (R-PA), will amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to strengthen standards used to keep LED lighting safe and efficient.
WASHINGTON, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) has written and sent a letter, signed by 174 House Democrats, to President-elect Donald Trump urging him to reconsider his support for efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and defund Planned Parenthood.
One day before President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration, the vast majority of House Democrats are warning him to think twice before supporting and signing Republican laws that they say would undermine women's health care.
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette plans to attend President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration Friday, but as the longtime Democratic congresswoman told a classroom of South High School students on Tuesday, it's more about supporting the institution than the actual man taking the oath of office.
"It's about the stability and the strength of the United States as a country, that we have a peaceful transition and we respect the results of our election process," DeGette said. "It's important, even if you don't like the guy."
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette and other Democratic state and federal lawmakers rallied Obamacare supporters Sunday, urging them to fight against repeal of the law and promising to protect it from Republicans bent on scrapping it.
Repealing the law could strip health care from previously uninsured people who benefited from the 2014 launch of the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, DeGette said.
Republicans in Congress are preparing to repeal the law but so far have presented no plan to replace it.
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, Rep. Ed Perlmutter, Colorado Lt. Gov. Donna Lynne, Colorado House Speaker Crisanta Duran and some 200 people who couldn't fit in the Laborers International Union Local 720 building turned out Sunday to fight against the repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), along with three original cosponsors, Representatives Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Doris Matsui (D-CA) and Charlie Dent (R-PA), today introduced the EPS Improvement Act (H.R. 518), which will amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to strengthen standards used to keep LED lighting safe and efficient.
Washington, DC –Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) today was selected to serve on three key Energy and Commerce subcommittees working on issues of national concern that have special resonance for Coloradans.
From Rewire
House Republicans will attempt to defund Planned Parenthood as part of the fast-track legislative process to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
"Planned Parenthood legislation would be in our reconciliation bill," Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, told reporters Thursday during his weekly press conference.