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WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) today offered the following statement on President Barack Obama's nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the next Supreme Court Justice:
WASHINGTON – This morning, the White House and Department of Education announced that Kalamazoo Central High School in Kalamazoo, MI has won the Race to the Top Commencement Challenge and will welcome President Barack Obama as their commencement speaker this spring.
Washington, D.C., -- Today U.S. Representative Diana DeGette (D-CO) and U.S. Senator Mark Udall (D-CO) sent a letter to President Barack Obama to highlight the Denver School of Science and Technology (DSST) as the most worthy candidate for his delivery of a commencement speech in the Race to the Top Commencement Challenge.
DENVER – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, announced that Seiji Hewson, a student at Colorado's Finest Alternative Arts School, won the 2010 First Congressional District Arts Competition. As part of the award, Mr. Hewson's pencil and watercolor piece titled "The Lost World", will be displayed in the Cannon Tunnel of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. He will also accompany Rep. DeGette to a special reception.
Colorado's DeGette takes national abortion role
March 27, 2010
By: Kristen Wyatt
DENVER — Voters are used to black-and-white political posturing: Democrats want one thing, Republicans another, they tussle in Washington then go home to tell citizens how the opposition is flat-out wrong.
BP, Others Push Against Federal Regulation of Fracturing
March 23, 2010
By: Mike Soraghan
BP America Inc. and two other oil and gas companies are lobbying for the new Senate climate and energy bill to recommend against federal regulation of hydraulic fracturing.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, today applauded passage of historic health care legislation to provide Americans with access to affordable health insurance coverage. By a vote of (219 to 212) on the Senate Amendments to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (H.R.
"Madame Speaker, just as when building a house, you have to first put down a foundation. Today, we are laying the foundation for a health care system that will provide every American access to high-quality care.
Democrats celebrate bill with a mix of exhaustion and relief
March 22, 2010
By: Michael Riley
WASHINGTON — Colorado's Democratic House members celebrated a hard-fought, exhausting victory on health reform Sunday, one that Republicans vowed would cost them at the polls.
WASHINGTON — The House on Sunday approved sweeping legislation to guarantee most Americans access to medical care for the first time in history.
The bill, which passed 219-212 without a single Republican vote, delivered President Barack Obama the biggest victory of his young presidency. It will make a nearly $1 trillion commitment in taxpayer money over the next decade to help an estimated 32 million uninsured Americans get health coverage.