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DENVER – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, today made the case for the urgent need to reform our nation's health care system during a speech to the City Club of Denver. She argued that any plan Congress developed must include three essential pillars saying, "it must cover every American; it must be affordable; it and must be portable." As Congress moves forward holding hearings, U.S. Rep. DeGette also announced that she will begin a statewide health care tour to highlight the issue of health care reform.
Tests nipped risk of tainted pistachios in bud
Thursday, April 2, 2009
By: Garance Burke
WASHINGTON – After introducing bipartisan legislation to help Americans quit smoking, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, joined her colleagues in the House of Representatives today in passing H.R. 1256, The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act with strong bipartisan support, 298 to 112. This legislation gives the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to regulate tobacco. U.S. Rep.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Edward Kennedy (D-MA) joined U.S. Representatives Diana DeGette (D-CO-1) and Todd Platts (R-PA-19) today in introducing companion pieces of legislation in the Senate and the House that provide Medicare and Medicaid coverage to tobacco cessation treatments for senior citizens, people with disabilities and low-income adults.
WASHINGTON – As the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issues an alert regarding certain pistachios that may have been contaminated with salmonella, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, today reaffirmed her commitment to giving the federal government mandatory recall authority and traceability powers.
Forging a Hot Link to the Farmer Who Grows the Food
Saturday, March 28, 2009
By: Brad Stone and Matt Richtel
America, meet your farmer.
WASHINGTON – As the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations examines the role of independent institutional review boards (IRBs) that oversee research on human participants, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, today offered her support for increased federal regulation and oversight of IRBs during a hearing titled, "Institutional Review Boards that Oversee Experimental Human Testing for Profit." Yesterday, U.S. Rep.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, today lauded the recommendations of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Inspector General (OIG) Report, "Traceability in the Food Supply Chain." While conducting the study, researchers were only able to track 13 percent [5 of 40] of the selected food products through each stage of the food supply chain.
WASHINGTON – As the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight andInvestigations prepares to examine the role of independentinstitutional review boards that oversee research on humanparticipants, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Vice Chair of theCommittee on Energy and Commerce, today introduced the Protection for Participants in Research Act.This legislation will strengthen federal regulation and oversight toprotect people who participate in research such as clinical trials.
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) today supported H.R. 1105,FY 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act, which contains the nine FY 2009appropriations bills not completed in the 110th Congress. The measurepassed on a vote of 245 to 178.