Rep. Diana DeGette

Democrat  •  1st District, Colorado  •  8th Term  •  Sworn In 1997
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06/02/12
Congress shows rare unity in passing FDA overhaul

...drug companies to communicate when there may be a pending shortage so doctors can adjust treatments accordingly. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, first introduced a drug shortage bill last year, but squeezed it into the FDA reauthorization after working wi

Source: Denver Post
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06/01/12
Philly Reps. Vote Against ‘Gendercide’ Bill

Representative Diana DeGette, Democrat of Colorado, voted against the bill, even though she said she’s against sex-selective abortion. “I don’t know anyone who [supports it],” she said. “Maybe that’s because there is no problem in ...

Source: PW-Philadelphia Weekly
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06/01/12
Threats, deals got drug companies on board with Obama

“We really have now been able to build a case that there was a sequential, planned, organized strategy for the White House to trade policy for politics, if you will,” said Rep ... Waxman and Diana DeGette, top Democrats on the Energy ...

Source: Washington Times
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05/31/12
House Rejects Bill to Ban Sex-Selective Abortions

“I don’t support abortion for gender selection,” said Representative Diana DeGette, Democrat of Colorado and an opponent of the legislation. “I don’t know anyone who does. Maybe that’s because there is no problem in this country of ...

Source: New York Times
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05/31/12
Threats, deals got drug companies on board with Obama

“We really have now been able to build a case that there was a sequential, planned, organized strategy for the White House to trade policy for politics, if you will,” said Rep ... Waxman and Diana DeGette, top Democrats on the Energy ...

Source: Washington Times
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05/31/12
Drugmakers Vowed to Campaign for Health Law, Memos Show

Republicans, including Representative Joe Pitts ... done to enact major legislation,” U.S. Representatives Henry Waxman of California and Diana DeGette of Colorado said in a joint statement. Waxman and DeGette, in their statement, said ...

Source: Businessweek
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05/31/12
"National Treasures, Local Treasures" Travels to Denver

...the Colorado Center for the Book at Colorado Humanities and the Denver Public Library. Sen. Wayne Allard and U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette will be special guests at the event. They will receive, on behalf of the Denver Public Library, a high-resolution facsim

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05/30/12
House passes FDA bill increasing overseas inspections

Representative Diana DeGette (D-Co.), co-sponsored the bill and applauded it. "I am so proud we passed a bipartisan bill to create an early warning system so the FDA, drug companies and doctors can better respond to shortages, quickly and efficiently.

Source: CBS News
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05/29/12
Republicans Leap on New Abortion Issue This Week

while forcing women to endure interrogations regarding their medical care,” Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., said in an e-mail. The National Abortion Rights Action league says the bill isn’t as simple as it looks. “The Prenatal ...

Source: NationalJournal.com
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05/29/12
Republicans Leap on New Abortion Issue This Week

...conversations with the women they care for, while forcing women to endure interrogations regarding their medical care,” Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., said in an e-mail. The National Abortion Rights Action league says the bill isn’t as simple as it lo

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05/25/12
Obama tells Coloradans: ‘We’re not going back, we’re moving forward’

Also speaking at the fundraiser were national co-chair of the Obama campaign John Register, local campaign organizer Cameron Lewis, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, and Hickenlooper, called “one of the funniest governors in the ...

Source: The Colorado Statesman
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05/25/12
Mystery trucker Murphy rolls in to CD 1 race

Former Denver Republican Party Chairman Danny Stroud is a well-known personality in the 1st Congressional District who is clamoring for a chance to take on incumbent Democrat U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, but a truck driving political neophyte may deny him the

Source: The Colorado Statesman
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05/25/12
Congress has small window to achieve much before election season

...members.) "I've been here eight terms, and it's been particularly frustrating with this Congress," said Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette of Denver. "The whole image people have of congressional dysfunction is hurting the economy. It's hurting people's secu

Source: Denver Post
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05/24/12
Corker Praises Passage Of GAIN Act In FDA User Fee Reauthorization Bill

Gingrey and Diana DeGette (D-CO) in the House of Representatives ... I understand the critical need for innovative new medicines to combat these ‘superbugs,’" said Rep. Gingrey. "In order to prevent a future public health crisis, my House ...

Source: Chattanoogan
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05/24/12
Rep. DeGette Highlights Issue Of Drug Shortages

...(CBS4)- Drug shortages are becoming an urgent problem and Congresswoman Diana DeGette is highlighting the issue. DeGette, a Democrat representing Colorado in Washington, DC, is the author of the “Preserving Access to Life-Saving Medications Act” a b

Source: CBS Denver
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05/23/12
Democratic Congresswoman on Maddow: GOP's New Women's Caucus Can't Mask Anti-Women Policies

Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) isn't buying it. "In this day and age, do we really need a lady's auxiliary in Congress, because that's what it feels like to me," she says in the clip below, on MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show. "What it feels like to me is ...

Source: Rolling Stone
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05/21/12
Joe Coors' wealth is hard to ignore in Colorado's congressional race

Sen. Mark Udall filed an extension for 2011 disclosures. 1st Congressional District Rep. Diana DeGette, a Denver Democrat, has between $838,000 and $2.1 million in assets, mostly in IRAs and a 401(k). She has between $200,002 and $500,000 ...

Source: Denver Post
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05/21/12
Travel perks pervasive for Colorado lawmakers, fiscal disclosures show

Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, went to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in January 2011 with a family member. The trip was paid for by the Alliance for Health Reform. She also went to Tokyo for a week in February 2011, paid for by the Japan Center for ...

Source: Denver Post
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05/21/12
Travel perks pervasive for Colorado lawmakers, fiscal disclosures show

...office points out that the trips were not paid for by taxpayers and were pre-approved by the House Ethics Committee. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, went to Fort Lauderdale, Fla., in January 2011 with a family member. The trip was paid for by the Alliance

Source: Denver Post
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05/19/12
The Most Powerful Special Interest in Washington: The Acronym

Representative Diana Degette, from Colorado’s First District, christened her political action committee the Individuals Dedicated to Ethics and Science PAC (IDEAS PAC). And just in case democracy was feeling discouraged, Representative Ted ...

Source: New York Times
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05/19/12
The Most Powerful Special Interest in Washington: The Acronym

Representative Diana Degette, from Colorado’s First District, christened her political action committee the Individuals Dedicated to Ethics and Science PAC (IDEAS PAC). And just in case democracy was feeling discouraged, Representative Ted ...

Source: New York Times
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05/19/12
NAACP Endorses Gay Marriage

...John Yarmuth Rep. Mike Honda Governor Dan Malloy Peter Shumlin Jan Schakowsky Jose E. Serrano Jim Moran Lois Capps Rep. Diana DeGette Rep. Xavier Becerra Sen Dianne Feinstein Senator Hatch Office Sen. Robert Menendez Andrew Cuomo Christine O'Donnell "In

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05/14/12
Aspen’s hydro process is criticized before Congress

The proposed legislation, introduced earlier this month by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), would exempt conduit projects from review by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), but includes a 45-day public ..

Source: Aspen Daily News
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05/14/12
Bristol Palin Receives Death Wishes Over Obama Blog Post

...John Yarmuth Rep. Mike Honda Governor Dan Malloy Peter Shumlin Jan Schakowsky Jose E. Serrano Jim Moran Lois Capps Rep. Diana DeGette Rep. Xavier Becerra Sen Dianne Feinstein Senator Hatch Office Sen. Robert Menendez Andrew Cuomo Christine O'Donnell "In

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05/12/12
Rand Paul: Obama's Views On Marriage Couldn't 'Get Any Gayer'

...John Yarmuth Rep. Mike Honda Governor Dan Malloy Peter Shumlin Jan Schakowsky Jose E. Serrano Jim Moran Lois Capps Rep. Diana DeGette Rep. Xavier Becerra Sen Dianne Feinstein Senator Hatch Office Sen. Robert Menendez Andrew Cuomo Christine O'Donnell "In

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05/11/12
House Energy and Commerce Committee Reviews Budget and Spending at the Department of Energy

Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) pointed out that the Department of Energy budget request for FY 2013 was a decrease in the amount of its core budget from the Bush era. She inquired as to whether the Department had reduced costs associated with contractors ...

Source: AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS
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05/10/12
President Obama's support of same-sex marriage historic, risky

Only one of the state's four Republicans in Congress said something: Rep. Doug Lamborn of Colorado Springs ... Michael Bennet and Mark Udall and Reps. Jared Polis, Diana DeGette and Ed Perlmutter — support same-sex marriage.

Source: Denver Post
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05/10/12
New Big Line

...your griping pleasure. Here's a quick rundown of our thinking behind the Line. After the jump, cast your own vote. CD-1 Rep. Diana DeGette isn't going to lose in 2012. That is all. CD-2 The Republican National Campaign Committee punked Sen. Kevin Lundbe

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05/09/12
Anti-Capitalist Obama Administration Targets Debt Collectors

...Rep. Henry Waxman (CA), the most senior Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, as well as Democratic Reps. Diana DeGette (CO) and G.K. Butterfield (NC), sent a letter Wednesday to Mary Tolan, CEO of Accretive Health, asking her to attend a

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05/09/12
Transpo conference committee digs into positions - GOP still plans to use gas prices against Obama - Report: McClendon arranged $450M loan - House panel to hear from BOEM chief

...testimony: http://bit.ly/IOj39a THE SECOND BILL: H.R. 3680 ( http://bit.ly/J8S4Uh ), backed by Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Diana DeGette, would reduce regulations for hydropower projects. THE HEARING: 9 a.m. in Rayburn 2123. MISS PATRICK REIS? Pros

Source: The Politico
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