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May 2, 2013
DENVER – Today, Congresswoman Diana DeGette (CO-01) announced that Brianna Litzman, senior at Chatfield Senior High School, has won Colorado's First Congressional District Art Competition with her photograph entitled, The Abandoned. The judges of the annual competition consisted of volunteers from the local art community.

April 30, 2013

Rep. Diana DeGette to perform civil-unions ceremonies at stroke of midnight

April 30, 2013

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By: Lynn Bartels

Colorado's longest-serving member of Congress, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, will be performing civil union ceremonies tonight after the clock strikes midnight.

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. The bill is sponsored by Representative Jared Polis (D-CO), a Co-Chair of the Equality Caucus in the House, who is joined by Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) as the lead Republican sponsor.

April 23, 2013

House Hydro Bill Tests Water for Broad Energy Deals

April 23, 2013

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By: Lauren Gardner

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

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By: Mark Jaffe

George Wenschhoff wanted to put a center-pivot irrigator on his Meeker cattle ranch, but it was going to need a lot of electricity. So he decided to add his own hydropower plant.

How did Wenschhoff, 72, hit on the idea?

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. DeGette was a leading advocate for passage of the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), and in particular, the inclusion of traceability as a fundamental component to improve our nation's food safety system.