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U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette issued the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to review several cases where lower courts overturned bans on same-sex marriage:
WASHINGTON -- Today Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Ranking Member Diana DeGette, Health Subcommittee Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr., and full Committee Ranking Member Henry A. Waxman sent a letter to Chairmen Fred Upton, Joe Pitts, and Tim Murphy outlining the key-short term and long-term questions that should be addressed in hearings on Ebola. Last month, these members urged Committee leaders to hold a hearing on the Ebola crisis.
WASHINGTON -- Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) joined Reps. Waxman, Dingell, Pallone, and Sens. Harkin, Rockefeller, Durbin, and Blumenthal to release a new report that found that hundreds of tobacco advertisements and images glorifying smoking and e-cigarettes appear in magazines with large teen readerships.
The report finds that "tobacco companies continue to glamorize smoking in advertisements in magazines with large youth readership" and that "magazines frequently contain alluring images of smokers in their editorial content."
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) issued a statement supporting the House vote on the McKeon Amendment, which authorizes the Obama Administration to train and equip vetted Syrian opposition elements and requires frequent reporting on these activities. Rep. DeGette voted for the amendment, which passed 273 to 156.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) offered the following statement after statistics released by General Motors show that at least 19 fatalities are connected to faulty ignition switches recalled by the company:
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) released the following statement commemorating the anniversary of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001:
"While thirteen years have gone by, the United States still mourns the terrible attacks of September 11, 2001. Whether we knew those who died in the attacks as family, friends, or simply as fellow citizens and human beings, we continue to feel their loss. This anniversary reminds me, and I hope all of us, to look out for one another and work together to make our world a better place."
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U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., has written letters to two congressional committee chairmen seeking a public hearing into reports of domestic violence by professional athletes.
"The penalties imposed by professional sports leagues on players who commit such violence vary widely," wrote Rep. DeGette in a letter to Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R- Mich.) and Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee Chairman Tim Murphy (R-Penn).
A U.S. congresswoman called today for a hearing into how professional sports leagues handle domestic violence as the National Football League continued to deal with fallout from the Ray Rice case.
U.S. Representative Diana DeGette of Colorado, the ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, sent a letter to Republican committee leaders seeking the public hearing.
Problems are piling up for the NFL in Washington.
From the Ray Rice scandal to the end of sports blackouts to the controversy over the Redskins name, America's most popular sport is under fire like never before in the nation's capital.