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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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives, by a vote of 236 – 173, passed landmark legislation today to end discrimination against LGBTQ Americans.
Democrats in the U.S. House approved sweeping anti-discrimination legislation Friday that would extend civil rights protections to LGBT people by prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.
The protections would extend to employment, housing, loan applications, education, public accommodations and other areas.
Called the Equality Act, the bill is a top priority of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who said it will bring the nation "closer to equal liberty and justice for all."
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) introduced legislation today to make physical therapy more accessible for individuals living in rural or underserved areas of the country.