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The Environmental Protection Agency's enforcement chief on Tuesday defended the Trump administration's work, despite a report by her own agency showing that civil and criminal crackdowns on polluters have dropped sharply in the past two years.
Assistant administrator Susan Bodine, who heads the office of enforcement, said the idea that EPA is soft on enforcement is "absolutely not true," adding that the agency is giving states a greater role in regulation and enforcement and stressing education and voluntary compliance by companies.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration issued a final new rule today aimed at barring health care clinics that provide abortion services from participating in a $236 million federal family-planning program, known as Title X.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) sponsored legislation filed today to ban the sale, manufacture or possession of any new military-style assault weapons.
The legislation – known as the Assault Weapons Ban of 2019 (H.R.1296) – would ban 205 specific firearms by name, including the AK47 and AR-15 assault rifles. It would also ban any semi-automatic rifle, pistol or shotgun that accepts a detachable magazine and has one or more "military-style" features, such as a pistol grip, threaded barrel or folding stock.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) today released the following statement on the president's decision to declare a national emergency:
"Congress did its job when it reached an agreement to fund the government and avoid another government shutdown. The president, on the other hand, did what he has done many times before – that's ignore the will of the people, abuse his power, and embarrass us in front of the rest of the world.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Scott Tipton (R-CO) introduced bipartisan legislation today to make permanent an existing national parks program that allows U.S. fourth-grade students, and their families, to visit any federally-managed parks, lands or waters for free for an entire year.
The popular, low-cost program was first established in 2015 by U.S. Department of the Interior to encourage children and their families to visit America's public lands.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Just days before the one-year anniversary of the tragic mass-shooting that took place at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, a group of federal lawmakers is introducing legislation aimed at preventing another similar attack from occurring elsewhere in the U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today called on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to provide documents related to its approval of Dsuvia, a new formulation of the opioid painkiller sufentanil.
Washington (CNN)A senior Department of Health and Human Services official told lawmakers on Thursday that he had raised concerns about separating families apprehended at the US-Mexico border to three Trump appointees before the administration's controversial "zero tolerance" immigration policy was announced.