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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.
About a dozen Sheridan officials and residents had lunch with Congresswoman Diana DeGette, D-Denver, on March 10.
DeGette regularly visits suburban communities she represents, and this is the first time in a few years she has visited Sheridan.
"I am interested in hearing about what is going on in your community, your concerns and what I can do to help you," the congresswoman said.
In 2013, Tea Party-inspired lawmakers shut down the federal government for 16 days. This year, the so-called Freedom Caucus (formerly the Tea Party) played chicken with the funding of the Department of Homeland Security.
Most recently, a band of 47 Republicans undermined the president's nuclear negotiations with Iran. They wrote a letter to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to let him know that any deal Iran signs with Obama is at risk of being chucked when he leaves office.
The regulations represent the administration's most significant effort to tighten standards for hydraulic fracturing, the controversial practice that pumps liquid into rock seams at high pressure to access pockets of oil and gas.
The measures affect wells only on federally owned lands, or roughly a quarter of the gas and oil operations in the country. The Bureau of Land Management said drillers on federal lands must reveal the chemicals they use, meet well-construction standards and safely dispose of contaminated water used in fracking.
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Democrat who has represented Colorado's First District since 1997, will introduce bills this session to help ease federal-state issues over marijuana legalization and bring cures from the lab to patients more quickly. She'll also focus on capping student loan interest rates and continue working on improvements to the Affordable Care Act.
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