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Rock legend Roger Daltrey took the stage for a different type of show Wednesday on Capitol Hill where he headlined a “Conversation on Child Cures."
The Who frontman was joined by House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Rep. Diana Degette (D-Colo.), as well as parents and survivors of deadly diseases.
Daltrey, the co-founder of Teen Cancer America, spoke on his passion for the charity and the need for young adolescents to have their own wing of hospitals.
WASHINGTON, DC – Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI), and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ)issued the following statement following a meeting at the White House with Vice President Joe Biden on H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act. Senate HELP Committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) also attended this afternoon’s meeting.
DeGette, Upton, and Pallone commented:
Vice President Joe Biden met with a bipartisan group of lawmakers on Wednesday to discuss a medical innovation bill that could be the path to funding for his cancer “moonshot.”
Biden met with House Energy and Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.), ranking member Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) and Rep. Diana Degette (D-Colo.), who are the leaders of the House’s 21st Century Cures effort.
Also at the meeting were Senate health committee chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and ranking member Patty Murray (D-Wash.).
This election cycle has placed a renewed focus on money's influence in politics.
The Prevent Cancer Foundation recently honored Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) for their work on H.R.
WASHINGTON, DC – One day after the National Football League (NFL) admitted at a House Energy and Commerce Committee roundtable that there is a link between football and degenerative brain disorders, U.S. Rep.
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The NFL's top health and safety officer acknowledged Monday there is a link between football-related head trauma and chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE -- the first time a senior league official has conceded football's connection to the devastating brain disease.
Washington, DC – Today, as President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announce new commitment to combat climate change, 75 Democratic Members of Congress wrote to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, encouraging the agency to finalize proposed rules for new and modified sources of methane emission and to develop proposals to regulate existing sources of methane in the oil and gas industry. The previously-announced proposed rules for new and modified sources of methane would avoid the equivalent of 7.7. to 9 million metric tons of carbon dioxide by 2025.
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.
DENVER, CO – During a roundtable at the Community College of Denver, U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (CO-01) and John Sarbanes (MD-03) unveiled the Government By the People Act (H.R 20), a bold new reform that would help everyday people in Denver and across the country fight back against wealthy and well-connected special interests.