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Republicans slipped anti-abortion language into the draft of the tax reform bill they released on Thursday. The move is part of an effort by the Trump administration and House Republicans to define life as beginning at conception, with an eye to rolling back Roe v. Wade.
WASHINGTON — The House passed a bill on Friday that would provide five years of funds for the popular Children's Health Insurance Program, over vehement objections from Democrats who opposed the way it would be financed.
The vote, 242 to 174, came a month after funds for the program expired.
Washington, D.C. — Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) today joined Congressman David McKinley (R-WV) in introducing bipartisan legislation that would create a commission to develop a comprehensive energy policy for the United States.
Washington, D.C. – Congresswoman Diana DeGette, along with Senator Michael Bennet and Representatives Ed Perlmutter and Jared Polis, banded together with more than 200 members of Congress this week to file an Amicus Brief in the case Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, which will be heard before the U.S. Supreme Court on December 5.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, said the Republican tax plan unveiled this morning is a one-sided partisan effort that does little for the middle class while rewarding the wealthy.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO) said the provision in the just-released GOP tax plan allowing the start of a 529 college savings plan for an "unborn child" is an extreme policy that has no place in the tax code.
"This is a back-door attempt to establish personhood from the moment of conception," DeGette said. "Even in the tax reform debate, Republicans could not resist including offensive provisions to appease an extremist minority. The tax code is no place to define what constitutes an 'unborn child.' What's next, giving a Social Security number to a zygote?"
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, said today's recommendations by the President's Commission on Combating Drug Addiction and the Opioid Crisis are a positive step, but don't negate the urgent need for increased federal funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, issued the following statement in response to news today of the first indictments from the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller:
Washington, DC — Pro-choice leaders in Congress, led by Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Pro-Choice Caucus Co-Chairs Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Louise Slaughter (D-NY), and Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-NY), today called on President Donald J. Trump to reverse his recent moves to limit women's access to birth control.
Washington, DC – President Donald J. Trump's just-announced plan to address the opioid epidemic is far from sufficient – starting with funding for the effort, Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, said today.