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April 25, 2013
Washington, DC – Today the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus (Equality Caucus) praised the re-introduction of the bipartisan Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
April 23, 2013
House Hydro Bill Tests Water for Broad Energy Deals
April 23, 2013
April 16, 2013
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-1) presided as Ranking Member of the Oversight and Investigation Subcommittee's hearing investigating last October's fungal meningitis outbreak and the lack of sufficient regulation over the compounding pharmacy industry. The outbreak was caused by contaminated steroid injections manufactured at the New England Compounding Company (NECC).
March 24, 2013
Bill would break dam for small Colorado hydropower
March 24, 2013
By: Mark Jaffe
March 21, 2013
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-1) issued the following statement after voting against Senate Amendment to H.R. 933, a Continuing Resolution that funds the federal government through September 30th of this year.
March 19, 2013
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Representatives Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Ed Whitfield (R-KY), Co-chairs of the Congressional Diabetes Caucus, introduced the Access to Quality Diabetes Education Act, and the Preventing Diabetes in Medicare Act. Both bills provide critical support to Medicare beneficiaries who are diabetic or prediabetic.
March 8, 2013
WASHINGTON – This week, U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (CO-D) and Mike Coffman (CO-R) re-introduced the "Respect States' and Citizens' Rights Act" which would ensure that state laws regarding marijuana will not be pre-empted by the federal government.
March 4, 2013
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO01) released the following statement on the Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) study conducted by the Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) on pilot projects for improving product tracing along the food supply system.
March 4, 2013
Lawmakers Wrestle With How to Keep Guns Away From People Prone to Violence
March 4, 2013
By: By Fawn Johnson
March 1, 2013
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette released the following statement after joining other members of Congress in filing an amicus brief in the United States Supreme Court in U.S. v. Edith Schlain Windsor, a landmark challenge to Section 3 of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA):