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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.

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:

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: