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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives, by a vote of 237 – 187, approved legislation today to provide permanent legal protection and a path to U.S. citizenship to up to 2.5 million undocumented immigrants who have spent much of their lives in the U.S., including 9,600 in Colorado's First Congressional District.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Four former heads of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will be testifying before Congress next week as a part of a key House oversight panel's investigation into the Trump administration's management of the agency.
When Suncor Energy's oil refinery north of Denver — which emits more than 800,000 tons of air pollution a year — broke a 12.8-ton limit for one invisible toxic gas last summer, the event went practically unnoticed.
Neither Suncor nor state health officials alerted nearby residents or county emergency managers about the July test that estimated hydrogen-cyanide emissions at a level of 14.1 tons a year.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Barbara Lee (D-CA), co-chairs of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, issued the following statement today in response to the Trump administration's new proposed rule that would allow health insurers and providers to discriminate against patients who have previously had an abortion:
"The Trump Administration's proposed rule is yet another dangerous and discriminatory attack on patients' constitutionally-protected right to abortion access and the full range of reproductive health care.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, joined with several of her Congressional colleagues today to introduce legislation to prohibit states from enacting laws that restrict access to abortion care.
The move comes after more than a half dozen states passed new laws aimed at limiting access to abortion services – including several that have now banned the procedure after just six weeks of pregnancy, and at least one state that's banned the procedure altogether.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) announced today that she believes it's time for Congress to officially launch an impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
"The facts laid out in the Mueller report, coupled with this administration's ongoing attempts to stonewall Congress, leave us no other choice," DeGette said. "It is time for Congress to officially launch an impeachment inquiry against the President of the United States."
WASHINGTON — Colorado representatives are among U.S. House lawmakers pushing for an inquiry into impeaching President Donald Trump as congressional Democrats grow increasingly frustrated by his refusal to comply with their oversight demands.
On Tuesday, after Trump's former White House counsel Don McGahn skipped a House Judiciary Committee hearing — defying a subpoena at the direction of the White House — Reps. Diana DeGette (D-1st) and Joe Neguse (D-2nd) both said it's time to launch an impeachment inquiry.
The chair of a House panel is crying foul over the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) failure to provide an expert to testify on the effects of toxic mercury air pollution.
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Co.), the leader of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Oversight and Investigations panel that oversees the EPA, said the denial left the committee with "serious questions."
"The EPA is supposed to be working for the American people," DeGette said in a statement sent Monday night.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is refusing to send a witness Tuesday to testify before a key House oversight panel that's investigating the agency's efforts to undo one of the Obama administration's most successful anti-pollution rules.
The House Energy and Commerce Committee's Oversight and Investigations panel, which oversees the EPA, will be holding a hearing Tuesday to review the agency's efforts to undermine a 2012 Obama-era rule that limited mercury emissions, and other important pollutants, from coal-powered power plants.