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July 27, 2015

Nearly 200 labs around the world have received live anthrax, according to Defense Department testimony before Congress on Tuesday.

July 24, 2015

WASHINGTON –U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) issued the following statement after Fiat Chrysler Automobiles filed a safety recall notice due to cybersecurity vulnerability in approximately 1.4 million vehicles:

July 23, 2015

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) joined with Reps. David Cicilline (RI-01) and John Lewis (GA-05) and Senators Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), and Cory Booker (D-NJ) to introduce the Equality Act, a landmark bill that would extend vital non-discrimination protections to include LGBT individuals.

July 22, 2015

On a Thursday evening in early July, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton came to the well of the House floor with a poster-board photograph of himself with two smiling blonde girls.

July 22, 2015

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The U.S. Forest Service completes a 5-year Roadless Area Review and Evaluation process (RARE I), which found that all the USFS lands within Browns Canyon and surrounding areas, tallying tens of thousands of acres, are suitable to be designated as wilderness.

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July 20, 2015

BUENA VISTA — Like a whitewater rafting trip down the Arkansas River, the dedication ceremony Saturday for Browns Canyon National Monument hit a few rough patches along the way.

July 19, 2015

The excitement was palpable — as it is almost every summer Saturday along the upper Arkansas River — as the who's-who list of federal, state and area dignitaries arrived for the formal dedication ceremony of Browns Canyon National Monument. But nowhere was it more evident than on the bow of Gov. John Hickenlooper's whitewater raft.

July 19, 2015

Advances in biomedical and pharmaceutical research continue to occur at a dizzying pace. Yet the process of moving these discoveries out of the lab and into the real world where they can benefit people is frustratingly slow.

July 15, 2015

Last week, the House passed H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, with a bipartisan vote of 344-77. The 21st Century Cures Act contains some important provisions for the pediatric and rare disease community. This bipartisan effort was led by Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr.

July 14, 2015

WASHINGTON –U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) headed the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation's latest effort to examine fraud and abuse in Medicare Part D. Vulnerabilities in the Medicare Part D prescription drug program.