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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. Maybe even get along better. Maybe even shed the label of "dysfunctional."

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

Representative Diana DeGette, a Colorado Democrat who represents the Denver area, said the shift in attitude toward drilling is less about politics and more about the encroachment on residential areas.

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. The revised draft rule emphasizes the need for an up-to-date, uniform oversight and disclosure framework that would provide relief from the current patchwork of state regulations, allowing for clarifications for industry and more effective safeguards for public lands.

Rep. DeGette's statement is as follows:

May 9, 2013
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) joined with her colleague Rep. Chris Gibson (R-NY) to introduce the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act (FRAC Act), a bipartisan bill that establishes common sense safeguards to protect groundwater from risks associated with the oil and gas drilling technique "hydraulic fracturing," better known as "fracking." The FRAC Act would require disclosure of the chemicals used in fracking fluids and would remove the oil and gas industry's exemption from the Safe Drinking Water Act. Rep.
May 9, 2013

DeGette says common-sense federal framework needed to govern fracking

May 9, 2013

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By: Bruce Finley

Citing concerns from communities across Colorado, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette on Thursday said there's a need for "a federal framework of common-sense fracking regulations" to resolve a patchwork of state policies.

May 9, 2013

DeGette says common-sense federal framework needed to govern fracking

May 9, 2013

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By: Bruce Finley

Citing concerns from communities across Colorado, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette on Thursday said there's a need for "a federal framework of common-sense fracking regulations" to resolve a patchwork of state policies.

May 9, 2013

DeGette says common-sense federal framework needed to govern fracking

May 9, 2013

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By: Bruce Finley

Citing concerns from communities across Colorado, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette on Thursday said there's a need for "a federal framework of common-sense fracking regulations" to resolve a patchwork of state policies.

May 8, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. DeGette (D-CO) applauded the U.S. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee's unanimous passage of S. 545, a companion bill to H.R. 267, the Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act (HREA). This bipartisan legislation, authored by U.S. Reps. DeGette and Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), will facilitate the development of small hydropower projects and will direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to study the feasibility of a streamlined two-year permitting process. In February, the U.S.