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WASHINGTON D.C. - Today, Representative Diana DeGette (CO-01) applauded President Obama's announcement that Minoru Yasui, a lifelong champion of freedom and equal rights who challenged the constitutionality of laws that directly targeted Japanese Americans during World War II, will posthumously receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Representative Diana DeGette (CO-01) joined five of her Democratic colleagues who will serve on the House Republicans' new Select Committee to Attack Women's Health. This new, select, committee is the fourth in the House to investigate Planned Parenthood over alleged sales of fetal tissue by Planned Parenthood Affiliates.
WASHINGTON – Rep. DeGette (CO-01) joined her fellow House Energy and Commerce Committee leaders to make the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it is expanding its investigation of Volkswagen's emissions issues to include additional Porsche, VW, and Audi models, with three liter diesel engines. The EPA investigation began in September when EPA announced that certain models of VW Diesel Engines (Model Years 2009-2015) had been fitted with so-called "defeat-devices" to allow these vehicles to beat state and federal emissions testing standards.
WASHINGTON - Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) urged Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy to conduct a more thorough undertaking than the EPA's initial draft assessment of the potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water resources.
You could hear the sense of betrayal in the voice of the Congresswoman from Colorado.
"My first car was a 1960 Beetle," said Rep. Diana DeGette, during an October 8 Congressional hearing on the Volkswagen emissions scandal. She waxed nostalgic about her grandmother who owned the car before her, the fabric roof, and simpler times when cars didn't have all those corruptible computers on board.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Ranking Member on the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, and full Committee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) led Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee to demand answers from Volkswagen regarding the company's intentional efforts to circumvent the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) emissions requirements for certain models of diesel engine passenger vehicles.
DENVER (CBS4) – A Congressional panel was held a hearing Thursday to look into the emissions cheating scandal by Volkswagen with a Colorado representative taking center stage.
VW first confessed the deception to U.S. regulators on Sept. 3, more than a year after researchers at West Virginia University first published a study showing the real-world emissions of the company's Jetta and Passat models were far higher than allowed. The same cars had met emissions standards when tested in the lab.
WASHINGTON — Hundreds of thousands of owners of Volkswagen diesel cars that skirt emissions standards may have to wait a year or more to get their cars fixed, the head of the automaker's US unit said at a contentious House hearing on Thursday.
WASHINGTON — The president of Volkswagen's American unit came under withering criticism on Thursday at a congressional hearing looking into the automaker's admission that for years it knowingly skirted federal emissions standards.
Michael Horn, the automaker's top official in the United States, repeatedly expressed remorse over the company's deception, but lawmakers were looking for more than an apology for its use of a so-called defeat device that fooled regulators during emissions testing.
The 21st Century Cures Act, passed in July by an overwhelming bipartisan majority of the House of Representatives, might just be the most significant piece of legislation affecting biomedical research. Ever.