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Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, today supported a resolution condemning the Trump Administration's "zero-tolerance policy," which is separating children from their parents at the border.
"The administration's new policy of separating families who seek asylum in the United States is sickening," DeGette said. "It traumatizes people seeking humanitarian relief, ripping young children away from their parents. This needless cruelty in the mistaken name of protecting our borders must end."
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) co-sponsored a bicameral, bipartisan bill introduced today to ensure that each state has the right to determine for itself the best approach to marijuana within its borders.
Washington, DC – More than 100 members of Congress, led by Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), today sent a bipartisan letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt urging him to withdraw a recently-proposed, so-called "transparency rule" that would limit the scientific research available to EPA policy makers as they draft regulations.
Denver – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), a founding member of the LGBT Equality Caucus, decried the Supreme Court's ruling in the case of Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission. In a 7-2 decision, the court ruled in favor of Jack Phillips, the owner of Masterpiece Cakeshop in Lakewood Colorado, who refused to bake a cake celebrating the marriage of same-sex couple Charlie Craig and David Mullins in 2012.
Washington, D.C. – President Trump's new proposed rule on Title X-supported programs is effectively a gag rule that will harm millions of women and families.
Washington, D.C. – Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus Co-Chairs Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Congresswoman Barbara Lee (D-CA), alongside House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley (D-NY), Ranking Member Nita Lowey (D-NY), Congresswoman Julia Brownley (D-CA), Congresswoman Judy Chu (D-CA), Congresswoman Katherine Clark (D-MA), Congresswoman Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Congressman Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), and Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA), released the following statement after reports that the Department of Health and Human Servic
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette, co-chair of the Congressional Pro Choice Caucus, led more than two hundred of her congressional colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar expressing opposition to the implementation of a domestic gag rule on Title X, the only federal grant program solely dedicated to family planning and related preventive services.
Washington, DC – Needless delays in bringing safe over-the-counter medicines to market – and in clarifying the use of existing OTC medicines – will soon be a thing of the past thanks to committee approval today of a bipartisan bill led by Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) that reforms the way the Food and Drug Administration reviews and approves such products.
The head of a major pharmaceutical distributor apologized before Congress on Tuesday for not doing more to stop the shipment of millions of powerful prescription opioids to pharmacies in two small West Virginia towns, while another industry leader admitted that his company contributed to the nation's opioid crisis.
Cardinal Health Executive Chairman George Barrett said he is sorry that the company did not act faster to halt millions of hydrocodone and oxycodone pills to the pharmacies in West Virginia, which has the nation's highest rate of opioid overdose death.
Denver - Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), the Ranking Democrat on the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee of the Energy and Commerce Committee, today sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt asking him to provide further details regarding his legally dubious real estate dealings with lobbyists while serving as a public official in Oklahoma.