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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Michael C. Burgess, M.D. (R-TX) introduced legislation today to change the way that the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, or CBO, calculates the potential long-term cost savings of preventive health care, such as increased screenings or changes in people's behavior.
WASHINGTON, D.C.– Following is a comment from U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) on the House Judiciary Committee's vote today to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt, a move she supports and will vote for when it reaches the full House:
Faced with population growth and a booming tourism and recreation industry, Colorado congressional leaders are pushing to protect more than 1 million acres of land as wilderness with the help of legislation to be introduced Tuesday that would cover 33 parcels, from high desert plateaus to river canyons in the western half of the state.
‘This may finally be the year that we get this done,' DeGette says
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) unveiled new legislation today to designate more than 740,000 acres in 33 areas of Colorado as federally-protected wilderness.
"Colorado's public lands are what set us apart from the rest of the country," DeGette said at a news conference Monday to announce the plan. "They are the reason why so many of us are so proud to call Colorado home, and they are the reason why so many people from across the country flock here to visit each year."
DENVER, CO – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) unveiled new legislation today to designate more than 740,000 acres in 33 areas of Colorado as federally-protected wilderness.
"Colorado's public lands are what set us apart from the rest of the country," DeGette said at a news conference Monday to announce the plan. "They are the reason why so many of us are so proud to call Colorado home, and they are the reason why so many people from across the country flock here to visit each year."
Denver's most powerful members of Congress are calling for U.S. Attorney General William Barr to step down, saying he mischaracterized special counsel Robert Mueller's report.
"I agree he should resign," U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Denver Democrat, told CBS on Thursday as he announced his candidacy for president.
The senator, who worked in the Justice Department during President Bill Clinton's administration, said Barr is not properly leading the "serious and committed patriots" of the Justice Department.
Four congressional Democrats from Colorado sent a letter to the heads of the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, imploring the officials to end a policy preventing immigrants who work in the marijuana industry from gaining U.S. citizenship.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), a member of the House Natural Resources Committee, introduced legislation today to permanently protect nearly 60 million acres of undeveloped national forest in 39 states.
The legislation – known as the Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2019 – would make permanent the U.S. Forest Service's so-called roadless rule, which it put in place in 2001 to limit road construction and timber harvesting in 58.5 million acres of undeveloped forests throughout the country – including 4.2 million acres in Colorado.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In response to newly-issued Department of Justice guidelines, U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) and Jason Crow (D-CO) sent a letter today to Attorney General William Barr and Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Kevin McAleenan urging them to retract new federal guidelines that prohibit the naturalization of legal permanent residents who have been employed in Colorado's legal cannabis industry, and replace them with a policy that's more consistent with the Cole Memorandum.