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Washington, DC -- Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, again expressed her strong opposition to repealing Obama-era Net Neutrality rules in response to the final Net Neutrality repeal order being printed in the Federal Register today. The order will largely go into full effect on April 23 of this year, giving Congress and supporters of Net Neutrality only 60 days to reverse this move.
Washington, DC – After revelations today by the Washington Post about continued unlawful behavior by Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement Scott Lloyd, who has ignored the constitution and federal rules regarding women's rights and reproductive health, the co-chairs of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, Congresswomen Diana DeGette (D-CO) and
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, decried the way in which legislation that the House passed today on a nearly a party-line vote would undermine the long-standing protections of the Americans With Disabilities Act, which was approved 28 years ago with strong bipartisan support and signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Ranking Member on the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee, joined every fellow Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee in sending a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai today asking a series of questions surrounding how the FCC reviewed and considered the record 24 million public comments in its proceedings to repeal net neutrality.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, called President Donald J. Trump's new budget proposal irresponsible, bad for the country overall and harmful to Colorado in particular.
"President Trump's Fiscal Year 2019 budget request will short-change important projects and programs affecting the environment, housing and health, among other matters that are critical to Colorado and the nation," DeGette said. "It is also fiscally irresponsible, focusing on short-term goals based on faulty assumptions, and will have a devastating long-term impact.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, strongly condemned alleged Trump administration collusion with an extreme anti-choice group in an effort to restrict Medicaid recipients' access to Planned Parenthood. The allegations are based on new information released by Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.
Washington, DC -- Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, issued the following statement after voting against the "Bipartisan Budget Act" early this morning:
"Under its current Republican leadership, Congress has lurched from crisis to crisis over the federal budget since this fiscal year started in October, voting five times for stopgap spending bills and shutting down the government twice.
Washington, DC – Today Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, joined 74 Democratic House members in sending a letter to Homeland Security Secretary KirstjenNielsen expressing profound concern with the Department of Homeland Security's practice of separating immigrant families, both in the United States and at the border.
Yesterday, U.S. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi spoke for eight consecutive hours on the chamber's floor about the need for immigration reform, with a particular focus on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, an endangered program that grants temporary but renewable legal status to those born outside the United States and brought here without documentation as children. Among the DACA recipients she lauded was Denver's Marco Dorado, whose inspirational story was first told in this space circa March 2017.
WASHINGTON — Diana DeGette just completed her 21st year as the Democratic congresswoman representing the district that includes the heart of Denver, making her the most senior member of the Colorado delegation and a force not to be overlooked in Washington's hard knocks politics.
While a host of big-name Democrats — Colorado House Speaker Crisanta Duran and state Sen. Angela Williams among them — are said to be biding their time for a shot to take DeGette's place in D.C. as the biennial shoo-in, the congresswoman has no plans to move on after 11 terms.