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March 16, 2017

Washington, DC Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, said President Donald J. Trump's first budget request is short-sighted and would be ruinous for the United States.

March 15, 2017

Back in Denver after a 27-hour marathon committee meeting on Republicans' Obamacare replacement, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette said she is "mystified" that Republicans are pushing forward with a bill that most analyses show will cause health insurance to become less available.

March 15, 2017

Rep. Diana DeGette, a Democrat representing Denver in Congress, is among many who are disappointed with the new GOP plan to replace Pres. Obama's Affordable Care Act.

"This bill is so bad from start to finish I could go on for hours about it," said DeGette.

March 15, 2017

A report out Friday from the Brookings Institution says it is likely the Congressional Budget Office will estimate more than 15 million people would lose health care coverage under the new House GOP bill.

March 13, 2017

Denver Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, said today's Congressional Budget Office assessment of the Republican bill to dismantle the Affordable Care Act proves that Americans would be better off if Congress works on a bipartisan basis to amend the ACA rather than jamming through a unilateral repeal.

March 10, 2017

WASHINGTON — Three days after Republicans introduced their plan to re-do the Affordable Care Act, reaction among members of Colorado's congressional delegation generally has split along partisan lines — though there's been a greater range of responses from its GOP lawmakers.

March 9, 2017

Washington, DC – At a marathon committee markup, Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, fought to protect Coloradans from reckless GOP efforts to dismantle the Affordable Care Act by resisting Republican committee members' unilateral rush to repeal the ACA and proposing amendments to limit the damage this new legislation would do.

March 9, 2017

Washington, DC – At the Energy & Commerce Committee's overnight markup of the GOP bill to dismantle the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Congresswoman Diana DeGette (D-CO), Chief Deputy Whip, tried to prevent Republicans from continuing their relentless attack on women's reproductive health care.

March 8, 2017

Washington DC - Congresswoman Diana DeGette (CO-1) and Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (NY-25), co-chairs of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, released this statement on the Republican health care bill as the House Ways & Means and Energy and Commerce Committees prepare to consider the legislation today.

March 8, 2017

Committee Markup of The American Health Care Act

VERBATIM, AS DELIVERED