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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, D.C. – As the Supreme Court begins hearing oral arguments today in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt, members of the House Pro-Choice Caucus called on the court to uphold Roe v. Wade and reject efforts to undermine a woman’s constitutionally protected right to make her own choices about her body. Despite the court finding a constitutional right for women to make their own health care decisions, politicians at the national, state, and local level continue to try to deny women access to the full range of medical services they need.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Representatives Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Renee Ellmers (R-NC) led their colleagues to pass H.R. 4444, a bipartisan bill that will update the Department of Energy’s conservation standards and continue to encourage the innovations in LED lighting that have accelerated over the last decade.
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.
Washington, DC – Today, Representatives Diana DeGette (D-CO-01) and Renee Ellmers (R-NC-02) led their colleagues to advance their bill, the EPS Improvement Act of 2016 through committee. The EPS Improvement Act of 2016 would ensure Light Emitting Diode (LED)-lighting technology is able to continue its proven track-record of energy-efficiency innovation.
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.
WASHINGTON, DC — In anticipation of Super Bowl 50’s showdown between the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers, U.S. Representatives Diana DeGette (CO-01) and Alma Adams (NC-12) placed hometown dishes on the line in a wager on whose team will triumph this Super Bowl Sunday in Santa Clara. The loser will be responsible for providing local food and drink from her congressional district to the other member. Representative Mike Honda (CA-17) has agreed to officiate the wager and keep the competition ‘friendly’.
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.
Washington, D.C. – Today, Pro-Choice Caucus co-chairs, Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Louise Slaughter (D-NY) led over 120 of their Democratic colleagues and called for an end to ongoing, politically-motivated House and Senate investigations into Planned Parenthood, in light of the many independent state investigations across the country that have cleared Planned Parenthood of wrongdoing.