Rep. Diana DeGette

Democrat  •  1st District, Colorado  •  7th Term  •  Sworn In 1997
Current Term 2009 - 2010 View All
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05/08/09
SPLASHDOWN!: Industry campaign targets 'hydraulic fracturing' bill

The 2005 Energy Policy Act exempted hydraulic fracturing from regulation under the Safe Water Drinking Act. But Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) proposed a bill last year to repeal that exemption. DeGette is now talking with Energy and ...

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05/08/09
TOUGH WEEK...SETTLE BACK, RELAX, WATCH SOME VIDEO

Yep yep yep. Tough week. Off the top of my head: there was Howard Dean and James Carville putting the screws to Arlen Specter. I wanted to see what Robert Brady or Chaka Fattah could do, as well, but Specter denied me that pleasure in ...

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05/08/09
Big stakes, big challenge in Democrats' cap-and-trade bill

Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, said he told Democrats on the energy committee this week that he will vigorously campaign to pass cap-and-trade. Talks now seem centered on a compromise that could include auctioning some pollution credits ...

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05/08/09
H.R. 22 Gains Support from Twenty-Five More U.S. Representatives

Diana DeGette (CO-1) Michael F Doyle (PA-14) Bob Etheridge (NC-2) Marcia L. Fudge (OH-11) Al Green (TX-9) Martin Heinrich (NM-1). Bob Inglis (SC-4) Mary Jo Kilroy (OH-15) Christopher J. Lee (NY-26) John Lewis (GA-5) Doris O. Matsui (CA-5) John L. Mica (FL

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05/08/09
Big stakes, big challenge in Democrats' cap-and-trade bill

Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, said he told Democrats on the energy committee this week that he will vigorously campaign to pass cap-and-trade. Talks now seem centered on a compromise that could include auctioning some pollution credits ...

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05/07/09
Is Congress killing the organic farm? | MNN - Mother Nature Network

Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY] Rep. Nita Lowey [D-NY] Del. Eleanor Norton [D-DC] Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL] Rep. Robert Wexler [D-FL] Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA] Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL] Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA] Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO] Rep. ...

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05/07/09
Bill Proposes Creation of Healthcare Quality Improvement Office

Sens. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) on Tuesday introduced the National Health Care Quality Act (HR 2252). According.

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05/07/09
Obama Eliminates Abstinence-Only Funding In Budget

Diana DeGette (D-Col.) and Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.): "Eliminating funding for ineffective abstinence-only programs is a win for science," said DeGette. "The Obama budget proposal invests in programs that are effective and based on sound sc

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05/07/09
Climate Progress » Blog Archive » One Hard Thing You Must Do to ...

Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) Charles Gonzalez (D-Texas) Mike Ross (D-Ark.) Jim Matheson (D-Utah) G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) Charlie Melancon (D-La.) John Barrow (D-Ga.) Baron Hill (D-Ind.) Zach Space (D-Ohio) Mary Bono Mack (R- Calif.) ... Rep

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05/07/09
Safety First: Bill proposes to create White House quality ...

Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) on May 5 introduced the National Health Care Quality Act (HR 2252). According to the sponsors, the bill would create an Office of National Health Care ...

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05/06/09
Cosponsors of HR 875

Sponsor: Rep. Rosa DeLauro [D-CT]. Cosponsors [as of 2009-04-18]. Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]. Rep. Bob Filner [D-CA]. Rep. Timothy Bishop [D-NY]. Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]. Rep. Mark Schauer [D-MI]. Rep. James McGovern [D-MA] ...

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05/06/09
Locally Grown Food Under Attack | RoaneViews

Rep. Eliot Engel [D-NY] Rep. Nita Lowey [D-NY] Del. Eleanor Norton [D-DC] Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz [D-FL] Rep. Robert Wexler [D-FL] Rep. Sam Farr [D-CA] Rep. Kathy Castor [D-FL] Rep. Anna Eshoo [D-CA] Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO] Rep. ...

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05/06/09
THE SATURDAY AFTERNOON POST: Time for REAL Representation! (Part II)

Diana DeGette D A 2. Jared Polis D Internet Exec 3. John Salazar D Rancher 4. Betsy Markey D Sm. bus. owner 5. Doug Lamborn D A 6. Mike Coffman R Real Estate Exec 7. Ed Perlmutter D A. S. Mark Udall D Teacher S. Michael Bennet D A --------- --- ... Debbie

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05/05/09
Institutional Review Blog: DeGette Still Doesn't Get It

Representative Diana DeGette (D-CO) has introduced the Protection for Participants in Research Act (H.R. 1715), which would impose IRB requirements on all human subject research supported by the federal government or affecting ...

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05/04/09
Bill Action: Introduced: HR 2252: To improve the Federal ...

Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO] introduced this bill. [This event matched these trackers: Active Legislation ]

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05/04/09
Obama Signs Kids' Health Insurance Bill

“It's about time that the most civilized country in the world gave health care coverage to all of its children,” said Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., one of the chief sponsors of the bill. Forty Republicans voted to back the measure, ...

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05/04/09
Editorial: The tale of two scares : Columnists : Boulder Daily Camera

A bill from Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo. would require the agency to devise a program that would allow it to trace food from farm to fork. The Food and Drug Administration Globalization Act, sponsored by Rep. John D. Dingell, D-Mich., ...

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05/04/09
Protecting Wilderness, by Congresswoman Diana DeGette

US Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) is the Vice Chair of the Committee on Energy and Commerce and a Member of the Natural Resources Committee.

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05/03/09
Colorado Likely to Play Critical Role in Shaping Clean Energy Bill

By David O. Williams The Colorado Independent Colorado’s New Energy Economy will serve as a model and its congressional delegation as a catalyst for a comprehensive energy bill currently being hashed out in a key US House committee, ...

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05/03/09
Real Vail | Real News | Colorado could be pivotal in passing ...

The second factor, according to Hay, is Colorado's growing influence on Capitol Hill where members of the congressional delegation hold plum spots on key committees, including Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, on the Energy and Commerce ...

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05/02/09
Colorado Independent as a bypass » Colorado expected to affect ...

Williams 5/2/09 8:00 AM most of all Denver callow jobs improvement at Alliance as a replacement for a Sustainable Colorado, Sept. 27, 2008. (Photo/Greenforall.org)Colorado’s New Energy Economy ordain be hard-wearing as as a beau idВal ...

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05/02/09
Colorado Independent » Colorado likely to play critical role in ...

The second factor, according to Hay, is Colorado's growing influence on Capitol Hill where members of the congressional delegation hold plum spots on key committees, including Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, on the Energy and Commerce ...

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05/02/09
SPLASHDOWN!: WRITE NOW! Urge your Representative to Vote FOR H.R. ...

29, 2008 by Rep. Diana DeGette [D-CO], this bill never became law. This bill was proposed in a previous session of Congress. Sessions of Congress last two years, and at the end of each session all proposed bills and resolutions that ...

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05/01/09
Can Anyone Find Obama's Name In This List? | Covenant Media

Colorado Rep Diana DeGette- Rep Mark Udall Connecticut Rep Rosa DeLaura- Rep John Larson- Rep James Maloney Florida Sen Bob Graham- Rep Corinne Brown- Rep Alice Hastings- Rep Carrie Meek Georgia Rep John Lewis- Rep Cynthia McKinney ...

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05/01/09
"Prevention Dividend" Efforts, ND Voter Initiative Rollback Named ...

A Colorado congresswoman's efforts to determine a "Prevention Dividend" for taxpayers was named Partnership for Prevention's Best Prevention Idea of the Week, while a North Dakota legislator's efforts to undo a voter-mandated tobacco

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05/01/09
Federal Reserve Transparency Act - HR1207 - Ron Paul | Liberty ...

I urge everyone to call their representative and urge them to co-sponsor HR 1207. Capitol Switchboard: 1-877-851-6437 How any representative could say “no” and that they don't want to know what the Federal Reserve is doing is beyond me. For

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05/01/09
CGS : Cloning Heats Up as Next Bioresearch Fight

Rep. Diana DeGette , D-Colo., who is drafting the new stem cell research legislation with Rep. Michael N. Castle , R-Del., said that she does not seek to order the NIH to fund research based on therapeutic cloning. ...

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05/01/09
The American Conservative » Three Strikes

Rep. Joseph Crowley [D, NY-7] Rep. Henry Cuellar [D, TX-28] Rep. Elijah Cummings [D, MD-7] Rep. Kathleen Dahlkemper [D, PA-3] Rep. Danny Davis [D, IL-7] Rep. Susan Davis [D, CA-53] Rep. Peter DeFazio [D, OR-4] Rep. Diana DeGette [D ...

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04/30/09
Matsui, Markey & Colleagues: Remember "Underserved' Areas

StimulatingBroadband.com 04/30/09 Congresswoman Doris O. Matsui (D-CA), Congressman Edward J. Markey (D-MA), and 5 colleagues from the House Commerce and Energy Committee yesterday issued a joint letter calling on Obama Administration ...

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04/30/09
Changes likely as cap-and-trade legislation moves through US House ...

When Rep. Diana DeGette (Colo.) asked Jackson more about ways the program in the discussion draft could relieve cost impacts on families, the EPA administrator replied: “One opportunity is deciding what happens to money a cap-and-trade ...

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1527 Longworth House Office Building
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Phone: 202-225-4431
Fax: 202-225-5657

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