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Congresswoman Diana DeGette got a front row seat when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the White House as part of his week-long stop in the United States.
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) joined with members of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health to hold the first legislative hearing on her bipartisan 21st Century Cures draft legislation. Rep. DeGette joined Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (MI-06) to introduce a discussion draft of their proposal on Tuesday along with Ranking Member Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (PA-16), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (TX-29).
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) joined with members of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health to hold the first legislative hearing on her bipartisan 21st Century Cures draft legislation. Rep. DeGette joined Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (MI-06) to introduce a discussion draft of their proposal on Tuesday along with Ranking Member Frank Pallone (NJ-06), Health Subcommittee Chairman Joe Pitts (PA-16), and Subcommittee Ranking Member Gene Green (TX-29).
WASHINGTON, DC – After nearly a year of listening to patients, innovators, researchers, providers, consumers, and regulators, bipartisan Energy and Commerce Committee leaders have released a discussion draft marking continued progress in the 21st Century Cures initiative. On Thursday, exactly one year to the day since full Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) launched the initiative, the Subcommittee on Health will hold a legislative hearing to review the draft.
COMMERCE CITY — Former U.S. Rep. Pat Schroeder spent much of her political career at the helm of a movement that would transform 15,000 acres of deeply toxic land in Commerce City into the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.
On Wednesday, 18 years after Schroeder left office, nearly 100 dignitaries and community members gathered in front of the refuge's visitor center to see the unveiling of its new name: Pat Schroeder Visitor Center.
As Japan comes under increasing scrutiny of its foreign trade practices, Rep. Diana DeGette says the country's leaders realize they have to change the way they deal with global commerce.
DeGette, a Denver Democrat, is an acknowledged expert on trade between the United States and Japan, and is currently co-chair of the Congressional Study Group on Japan. Recently back from leading a delegation there, she sat down for an exclusive Greater Park Hill News interview to talk about her latest meeting with Japanese government ministers.
Reps. Diana DeGette (CO-01) and Louise Slaughter (NY-25), the co-chairs of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, criticized emerging Republican plans to move legislation interfering with the District of Columbia's newly-passed protections for women and their reproductive health choices.
Denver, CO – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) was joined yesterday by Reps. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) and Jared Polis (CO-02) as well as leaders of Adams County, Commerce City, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in unveiling the newly named Pat Schroeder Visitor Center of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge. The naming ceremony took place in honor of former Colorado Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, who served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 24 years from 1973 to 1997.
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette along with Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn, Democratic Caucus Chair Xavier Becerra, Democratic Caucus Vice-Chair Joseph Crowley, Congressman John Conyers, Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren and other House Democrats filed an Amicus Brief in support of the Obama Administration's appeal in the Fifth Circuit case of Texas v. United States.
Colorado's three Democratic members of Congress joined 178 of their colleagues in signing onto a court brief defending President Obama's executive actions on immigration announced last November. The president's orders would have halted deportations of immigrants without documentation who were brought here as children or who are parents of U.S. citizen-family members, but the orders were suspended in February after Texas federal Judge Andrew Hanen ruled in favor of a lawsuit brought by Republican officials in 26 states.