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June 20, 2013
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-1) today issued the following statement regarding her vote against the Farm Bill, H.R. 1947. The bill failed 195 to 234. The bill would have gutted $20.5 Billion in funding for the critical Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), better known as the food stamp program.
June 19, 2013

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Charlie Dent (R-PA) introduced the bipartisan Stem Cell Research Advancement Act, to ensure a lasting framework for ethical embryonic stem cell research at the National Institutes for Health (NIH), and to bring certainty to the scientific community pursuing research that could produce life-saving cures and treatments.

June 18, 2013
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Louise M. Slaughter (D-NY), co-chairs of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, joined several other Members in speaking out against the extreme legislation advancing today in the House that would ban all abortions after 20 weeks, with no exception to protect a woman's health.

June 6, 2013

Imagine this as a scenario for bonding and team-building among members of Congress: a night at a baseball game. In its most extreme iteration, the full House would convene at Nationals Park, be immediately adjourned, and then kick back to eat hot dogs and peanuts, sip beer or lemonade, watch the game, and, most of all, get to know one another better.

June 5, 2013

Rep. Degette visits Tennyson Center for Children to discuss proposed cuts to critical programs

June 5, 2013

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May 23, 2013

Energy-Rich Colorado Becomes Setting for Fracking Fight

May 23, 2013

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By: Jennifer Oldham & Jim Snyder

May 16, 2013

WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-1) released the following statement regarding the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) updated draft rule for hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") on public lands.

May 9, 2013
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) joined with her colleague Rep.
May 9, 2013

DeGette says common-sense federal framework needed to govern fracking

May 9, 2013

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By: Bruce Finley