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WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), congratulated the State of Colorado today as one of the 16 finalists for the U.S. Department of Education's Race to the Top competition. The awards given are estimated to be between $20 and $700 million. Colorado's proposal requests $377 million to be used over four years for innovative school reform.
Obama: Health Bill ‘Deserves' Vote
March 3, 2010
By: Alex Wayne
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, praised today's passage of the Health Insurance Industry Fair Competition Act (H.R. 4626). This legislation would repeal the McCarran-Ferguson Act exemption from U.S. antitrust laws and subject health insurers to the same good-competition laws that apply to virtually every other company doing business in the United States. Rep. DeGette was an original cosponsor of similar legislation approved by the House Judiciary Committee.
Washington, D.C. – Today the Colorado Congressional Delegation sent a letter to VA Secretary Eric Shinseki seeking support and funding to build a new 20-bed stand-alone Fisher House near the new VA Medical Center at the Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora.
The Fisher House will provide on-site residential housing facilities for families of active duty and veteran patients receiving care at the VA Medical Center.
House Energy and Commerce Committee to investigate hydraulic fracturing
February 18, 2010
By: Dave Michaels
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, today applauded the Committee's intent to investigate hydraulic fracturing:
Five House Democrats Ready To Step Up
February 12, 2010
By: Richard E. Cohen
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, today offered the following response to President Barack Obama's State of the Union Address before a joint session of Congress:
Post office won't be sold
January 25, 2010
By: Tom Munds
Melba Franklin, Heidi Bockman and Joe Torres all smiled when they were told the U.S. Postal Service was no longer pursuing plans to sell the post office at 3300 S. Broadway.
Post office won't be sold
January 25, 2010