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June 5, 2013
Rep. Degette visits Tennyson Center for Children to discuss proposed cuts to critical programs
June 5, 2013
May 23, 2013
Energy-Rich Colorado Becomes Setting for Fracking Fight
May 23, 2013
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
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
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
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.
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
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.