- Tuesday January 27, 2009
U.S. Representative Diana DeGette said she plans to re-introduce a bill overturning limits on federal funding for stem-cell research even if President Barack Obama lifts the ban by executive order.
< Read more > - Thursday January 22, 2009
· Thursday marks the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. It's also likely to mark the day President Barack Obama will reverse at least a few of the anti-abortion policies of George W. Bush.
< Read more > - Wednesday January 21, 2009
The advent of the Obama administration is rousing enthusiasm among abortion-rights supporters and deep anxiety among opponents as both sides mark Thursday's anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
< Read more > - Wednesday January 14, 2009
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to more than double funding for a government health program for low-income children, taking the first step in President-elect Barack Obama's promise to ensure medical coverage for all kids.
< Read more > - Wednesday January 14, 2009
The House is poised to give Barack Obama a quick legislative victory by approving a bill to expand a health insurance program for children, making a down payment on the president-elect's promise to provide coverage to every child in the country.
< Read more > - Wednesday January 14, 2009
The House is expected on Wednesday to pass a reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program that would enroll 4 million more children and adults at a cost of $35 billion over four-and-a-half years.
< Read more > - Wednesday January 14, 2009
Congresswoman Diana DeGette has introduced legislation that she believes would reduce the teen pregnancy rate and decrease abortions.
< Read more > - Tuesday January 13, 2009
Following her push to repeal the controversial health care worker "conscience clause" rule being rushed through by the Bush administration, Denver Democrat and U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette is pairing up with a big political gun and abortion foe, Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), to promote women's reproductive care in a rare common-ground approach.
< Read more > - Tuesday January 13, 2009
Congress will almost certainly send President-elect Obama an expansion of the State Children's Health Insurance Program early this year, but for now the House and Senate have competing bills on the topic.
< Read more > - Monday January 12, 2009
Plans to reauthorize the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) are probably being scaled back by House Democrats, putting a damper on a key piece of legislation that is part of their plans to expand health insurance coverage.
< Read more > - Thursday January 08, 2009
House Democrats intend to pass a reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program next week, with the goal of giving President-elect Barack Obama a major health bill to sign during his first days in office.
< Read more > - Saturday January 03, 2009
Thwarted by President Bush in their efforts to expand federal spending on embryonic stem cell research, Democrats are now debating whether to overturn federal restrictions through executive order or by legislation when they assume full control of the government this month.
< Read more > - Friday January 02, 2009
Barack Obama certainly has his plate full this holiday season – and it will undoubtedly be piled higher by the time he's sworn in on Jan. 20. The decision on where to dive in and take the first bite must be a daunting prospect for the president-elect.
< Read more > - Wednesday December 24, 2008
"Just with the stroke of a pen, the new president could open up new avenues of research," said Rep. Diana DeGette (Colo.), the lead Democratic sponsor of legislation that would broaden funding for embryonic stem cell research.
< Read more > - Friday December 12, 2008
Most Coloradans don't know it, but we have a big asset in our congressional delegation. Denver Congresswoman Diana DeGette, now the dean of the Colorado delegation, is also among the leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives.
< Read more > - Friday December 12, 2008
In the race to stake out territory on a health care overhaul next year, Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus is making it a habit to try and be first.
< Read more > - Friday November 21, 2008
Throughout its tenure, the Bush Administration has subverted the democratic process and undermined access to health care for millions of Americans.
< Read more > - Wednesday November 19, 2008
For years, members of Colorado's congressional delegation have been raising questions about a natural gas extraction technique called hydraulic fracturing.
< Read more > - Monday October 20, 2008
Both presidential candidates appear to support federal funding of stem cell research, and for that reason the issue hasn't come up much in the fall campaign. The only time it was mentioned in any of their three debates was last week, when John McCain criticized Barack Obama for running television commercials saying McCain opposes "federal funding for stem cell research."
< Read more > - Friday October 10, 2008
Visiting Denver Health, the speaker raps on the crisis and on health care.
< Read more > - Friday October 03, 2008
Colorado's congressional delegation reported Tuesday a softening of public opposition to a bailout of the financial services industry.
< Read more > - Friday October 03, 2008
The House cleared legislation Friday that would authorize $5 million more each year for the agency that administers and organizes organ transplants nationwide.
< Read more > - Thursday October 02, 2008
Opposition to a proposed HHS rule is mounting, with 28 senators and 126 House members arguing it might limit access to health care and the EEOC concerned it could violate civil rights law.
< Read more > - Wednesday October 01, 2008
Colorado's congressional delegation is divided over what to do next after the House killed a $700 billion economic bailout, with some suggesting speedy revisions and another vote and others suggesting taking more time to find the right solution at the right price.
< Read more > - Wednesday October 01, 2008
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette said Tuesday that a $700 billion plan to bail out the nation's troubled financial system failed in Congress on Monday because politicians failed to adequately explain the seriousness of the crisis to their constituents.
< Read more > - Monday September 29, 2008
Most members of the Colorado Congressional delegation contacted Sunday night were still studying the proposed $700 billion financial bailout, while one indicated she was "likely" to support it.
< Read more > - Thursday September 25, 2008
Rep. DeGette comments on Zerhouni's resignation.
< Read more > - Thursday September 18, 2008
Newsweek interview with Congresswoman DeGette about Energy Bill
< Read more > - Thursday July 24, 2008
New York Times Editorial Board Endorses DeGette's traceability Proposal
< Read more > - Friday July 18, 2008
Jalapeno, serrano varieties focus of salmonella hunt
< Read more > - Friday July 18, 2008
Conditional all-clear is issued; culprit in food illness still unknown
< Read more > - Thursday July 17, 2008
The salmonella outbreak of 2008 may go down in history as the case of the missing tomatoes.
< Read more > - Thursday July 17, 2008
Tomatoes sold in the U.S. are safe to eat again, according to the Food and Drug Administration, which lifted its warning about the risk of salmonella contamination.
< Read more > - Wednesday July 16, 2008
It sounds like a no-brainer: prevent illness, save money. You would spend less money on medicine and doctor co-pays, have increased productivity at work and wouldn't have to take as many sick days.
< Read more > - Tuesday July 15, 2008
Failure to definitively link recent outbreak to a food source has exposed chinks in U.S. safety system
< Read more > - Friday July 11, 2008
After watching Republican opposition to a Medicare bill crumble in the Senate this week, emboldened Democrats are considering whether to force a new vote on expanding a children's health insurance program.
< Read more > - Thursday July 10, 2008
More than 1,000 people in 41 states and the District of Columbia have now been sickened in the nation's salmonella outbreak, in what officials said Wednesday was the largest food-borne outbreak in the last decade. And some food safety experts this week tied problems in tracing the source of the contamination to what they say are shortcomings in the Bioterrorism Act of 2002.
< Read more > - Wednesday July 09, 2008
The government officials who are supposed to protect America's food supply are not certain what has made almost 1,000 people ill in the last three months.
< Read more > - Wednesday July 09, 2008
Food "traceability" is a pet cause of Representative Diana DeGette, Democrat of Colorado, who has made food safety something of a mission in the last five or so years.
< Read more > - Tuesday July 08, 2008
Hunting the source of the salmonella outbreak could be a lot easier.
< Read more > - Monday July 07, 2008
The House Democrat is working on legislation to beef up the agency's food safety authority.
< Read more > - Friday July 04, 2008
Investigators are seeing more signs that the salmonella outbreak blamed on tomatoes might have been caused by tainted jalapeno peppers and have begun collecting samples from restaurants and from the homes of those who have been sickened, according to health officials involved in the probe.
< Read more > - Wednesday June 25, 2008
In a matter of days, the federal government is scheduled to start paying doctors 10.6 percent less when they treat Medicare patients. With that in mind, the House overwhelmingly passed legislation Tuesday that would void the cut and pay for it by trimming payments to private health insurers.
< Read more > - Thursday June 12, 2008
Congress should give agencies the power to protect the nation's food supply
< Read more > - Friday May 09, 2008
Rep. Diana DeGette isn't waiting for a new president before trying to overturn restrictions on federally-funded embryonic stem cell research.
< Read more > - Thursday May 08, 2008
One of the chief architects of vetoed bills to expand embryonic stem cell research hopes to use a House hearing today to squelch sentiment that recent breakthroughs with other types of stem cells defeat the need for embryonic stem cell research.
< Read more > - Thursday May 08, 2008
New legislation on embryonic stem cell research could be offered before November's election, Rep. Diana DeGette said today.
< Read more > - Wednesday April 23, 2008
The House is to vote today on a measure that would delay Medicaid cuts to "safety-net" health facilities.
< Read more > - Friday April 18, 2008
House Democrats Thursday unveiled legislation to make broad regulatory changes to the Food and Drug Administration, including the creation of a special force of inspectors to monitor overseas production of food, drugs and cosmetics.
< Read more > - Wednesday April 16, 2008
Lawmakers seeking stricter food import regulations and mandatory recalls of tainted products see a potential vehicle in food safety legislation expected within the next week from the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
< Read more > - Wednesday April 16, 2008
Over the last seven years, a crisis has been brewing in our healthcare system. The numbers are daunting – 47 million Americans, including 9 million children, live without access to quality health care.
< Read more > - Tuesday April 15, 2008
Panel Vice Chairwoman Diana DeGette, D-Colo., hopes to see several proposals she has offered included in the measure. In September, she offered a bill (HR 3484) that would give the government the authority to stop the distribution of tainted foods.
< Read more > - Tuesday April 08, 2008
In a letter to Colorado Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette, a vice chairwoman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, the consumer groups Center for Science in the Public Interest and Consumer Federation of America, highlighted their backing for DeGette's stricter recall measure as well as her bill to require a tracking system for food products that would aid in recalls.
< Read more > - Tuesday April 08, 2008
Protecting wilderness is not a partisan issue.
< Read more > - Sunday April 06, 2008
A Denver congresswoman pitched her plan for more Colorado wilderness to Club 20, telling her audience that she doesn't want to use wilderness to hinder energy development.
< Read more > - Thursday April 03, 2008
A Denver congresswoman has persuaded her colleagues to keep the door open to possible future hikes in the legal tobacco-purchase age.
< Read more > - Tuesday March 25, 2008
Every day one person dies in Colorado because they are uninsured, according to a report released yesterday by a Washington, D.C.-based consumer health care advocacy group.
< Read more > - Thursday March 20, 2008
Bush appointee denies dire effect on Colo. hospitals
< Read more > - Wednesday March 19, 2008
Patients may bear the cost of Bush's plan to reimburse less, critics say
< Read more > - Friday March 14, 2008
Colorado Democrats blast the decision on oil and gas drilling on the plateau.
< Read more > - Thursday March 13, 2008
Representative Diana DeGette, Democrat of Colorado, has proposed improving the ability to track meat back to the slaughterhouse and cow, and giving the agriculture department authority to issue recalls. That could make it easier, she said, to catch tainted meat before it was consumed, "or preferably, to deter conduct like this."
< Read more > - Thursday March 13, 2008
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency cut its tolerance for ozone across the country Wednesday, at a time when the Denver metro area is violating the existing standard on the key ingredient of smog.
< Read more > - Monday March 10, 2008
DeGette's letter to the Washington Post's Editors in response to their food safety editorial.
< Read more > - Wednesday March 05, 2008
Denver Health Medical Center would lose $60 million a year
< Read more > - Wednesday March 05, 2008
Officials across Colorado tell legislators how Bush's proposed cuts may hurt.
< Read more > - Tuesday February 26, 2008
House panel probing recalls say companies and federal agencies can't be relied upon to protect American consumers.
< Read more > - Tuesday February 26, 2008
Grocery Lobby Registers Frustration With FDA Power, Urges Congress to Let Agency Force Recall
< Read more > - Saturday February 16, 2008
Lawmakers reached an agreement yesterday on a Senate bill that clears the way for the first major overhaul of the nation's consumer product safety system in a generation.
< Read more > - Friday February 08, 2008
WASHINGTON - The National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden needs more funding, especially as the country pushes for renewable sources of energy, Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., told Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman Thursday at a hearing of the Energy and Commerce Committee.
< Read more > - Wednesday January 23, 2008
House Democrats will attempt Wednesday to override President Bush's second veto of a children's health insurance bill, but they will likely win little new Republican support, and the effort is expected to fail.
< Read more > - Thursday December 06, 2007
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.), vice chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee, said the IAAPA had contacted her office, too. "I've really been focusing on . . . what we can do to get lead out of the toys, and what we can do to get adequate funding for personnel, and that's been the chairman's main focus as well," she said, referring to Rep. John D. Dingell (D-Mich).
< Read more > - Thursday December 06, 2007
In a troubling reversal, the nation's teen birth rate rose for the first time in 15 years, surprising government health officials and reviving the bitter debate about abstinence-only sex education.
< Read more > - Wednesday December 05, 2007
When Congresswoman Diana DeGette visited with us last week, we talked about the do-nothing Congress. DeGette contends, and we would agree, that the hold-up is in the Senate. A few Republicans, knowing Democrats don't have the 60 votes needed to stop a filibuster, have scuttled some important measures.
< Read more > - Thursday November 29, 2007
Congress should get behind Rep. Diana DeGette's efforts to give federal regulators more power and adequate staffing.
< Read more > - Wednesday November 21, 2007
Despite a record number of toy recalls and promises of more-aggressive testing by toymakers and retailers, toys with high levels of lead and dangerous small magnets are still for sale in stores, two public interest groups said yesterday.
< Read more > - Wednesday November 21, 2007
The political controversy over restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research is unlikely to end with Tuesday's news that mature human cells can be made to acquire the powers of embryonic stem cells, because scientists say research on both types of cells is closely related and is needed to inspire and cross-check each other.
< Read more > - Monday November 19, 2007
A stalemate in Washington is holding up money for security during next year's GOP and Democratic conventions and could force Minneapolis-St. Paul and Denver to front tens of millions of dollars, lawmakers warned Monday.
< Read more > - Friday November 09, 2007
Recalls have parents worried, kids confused, officials critical
< Read more > - Wednesday November 07, 2007
Following recent recalls of Chinese-made tires, toothpaste and toys, the Bush administration yesterday announced a plan to improve the safety of what Americans buy and eat by intervening before imports reach the United States.
< Read more > - Wednesday November 07, 2007
Colorado's DeGette and other Dems cite the recent recalls of kids' products as a sign more needs to be done.
< Read more > - Wednesday November 07, 2007
A White House panel investigating ways to head off imports of dangerous products recommended empowering the Food and Drug Administration to order recalls of tainted food and expanding inspections overseas.
< Read more > - Wednesday November 07, 2007
The embattled head of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Tuesday deflected criticism for trips taken at industry groups' expense, saying she would welcome more congressional funding so the safety agency could pay for its own staff's trips.
< Read more > - Tuesday November 06, 2007
The Bush administration, responding to a wave of recent food and product recalls, is set to announce today its most aggressive regulatory proposals yet on policing imports. But much of their success depends on congressional action, and some lawmakers and outside experts already contend they are inadequate.
< Read more > - Sunday November 04, 2007
There's an outside chance that sometime Dec. 30 or 31 the 50 millionth passenger of 2007 will pass through Denver International Airport. If that record-setting event occurs, officials at DIA should have no problem locating that person to offer champagne, flowers and other celebratory goodies. Why? The traveler will probably be stuck in line waiting to clear security.
< Read more > - Thursday November 01, 2007
Colorado risks losing tourists if steps are not taken to improve security wait times at Denver International Airport, according to the state's nine representatives and senators.
< Read more > - Wednesday October 31, 2007
Lawmakers want more lead testing and scrutiny. The Bush administration fears some ideas would bog down safety efforts.
< Read more > - Wednesday October 31, 2007
House Speaker Pelosi Tuesday demanded the nation's top-ranking official tasked with policing consumer product safety to step down.
< Read more > - Monday October 22, 2007
Chastising what she called "wrong and misguided" priorities, Rep. Diana DeGette slammed President Bush's request Monday for $46 billion in additional funds to fight the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
< Read more > - Friday October 19, 2007
Democrats are planning to use continuing resolutions to fund the State Children's Health Insurance Program at its current level as it grows increasingly likely that supporters of expanding SCHIP will be unable to win support from the White House.
< Read more > - Friday October 19, 2007
The Democratic-controlled House failed Thursday to override President Bush's veto of a politically popular children's health bill, and the White House instantly called for compromise talks on a replacement.
< Read more > - Friday October 19, 2007
Supporters of the Democratic plan to expand children's health care coverage began formulating a new course on Thursday following their failure to override President Bush's veto.
< Read more > - Friday October 19, 2007
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton joined birth-control advocates Thursday in demanding that the Bush administration withdraw an appointment that places federal family planning funds under the control of a woman they consider hostile to contraception programs.
< Read more > - Thursday October 18, 2007
Diabetes was first described by the Greeks about A.D. 165. Insulin - the drug widely used to manage the disease - was discovered in 1921. Decades later, diabetes remains a dangerous, incurable disease
< Read more > - Friday October 05, 2007
The U.S. government does not conduct surprise inspections of laboratories handling the world's most dangerous organisms and poisons, but regulators said at a congressional hearing Thursday that may change. Officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said they're reviewing the policy after the failure of inspectors to learn of worker infections last year at Texas A&M University.
< Read more > - Thursday October 04, 2007
Denver's congresswoman said she will lead the fight to override President Bush's veto of an expanded children's health insurance program.
< Read more > - Tuesday October 02, 2007
A consensus is building among government and food industry officials that the fix for the country's import safety system is likely to require better-targeted inspections, though not necessarily more of them.
< Read more > - Thursday September 27, 2007
House Democrats are not in a negotiating mood after they picked up more than 40 Republican votes Tuesday to add $35 billion to the State Children's Health Insurance Program.
< Read more > - Wednesday September 19, 2007
Colorado Congresswoman Diana DeGette is asking federal officials to hold a hearing on tougher smog standards in Denver, which is struggling to meet existing standards.
< Read more > - Wednesday September 19, 2007
The country's largest food suppliers, including Kraft Foods, H.J. Heinz and Dole Food, facing congressional food-safety proposals that could cost them millions of dollars a year, proposed yesterday to grant the government more oversight of the industry.
< Read more > - Wednesday September 12, 2007
Despite clashes over energy development on federal land, Congresswoman Diana DeGette expressed optimism Wednesday about her latest proposal to designate 1.65 million acres in Colorado as wilderness.
< Read more > - Wednesday September 05, 2007
Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., this week plans to introduce two pieces of legislation that would require USDA to implement a food tracking system and give FDA recall authority over food products -- both bills she hopes can be folded into a comprehensive import safety draft bill, an aide said.
< Read more > - Friday August 31, 2007
U.S. Rep. Rosa DeLauro called Thursday for the Food and Drug Administration to strengthen safety guidelines for fresh-cut produce in the wake of another spinach recall.
< Read more > - Wednesday August 29, 2007
The Denver representative says the federal government should force recalls and track product movement. In the wake of several recent food scares in Colorado, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette on Tuesday said the federal government should step up its food-safety efforts.
< Read more > - Saturday August 18, 2007
The Food and Drug Administration decided Friday that it will not close seven field laboratories, including one in Denver. The FDA had planned for some time to shut down seven labs as part of a consolidation plan to reduce expenses and modernize its lab network.
< Read more > - Monday August 06, 2007
House Passes Measure But Compromises Pose Challenge for Final Bill
< Read more > - Sunday August 05, 2007
Renewable Sources, Conservation Pushed - The House yesterday passed a far-reaching package of energy legislation that would promote conservation and the use of renewable resources at the expense of the country's oil and gas interests.
< Read more > - Friday August 03, 2007
Moving to heal divisions in a fractious Democratic caucus, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is solidifying support for legislation that would put her party's stamp on U.S. energy policy.
< Read more > - Friday August 03, 2007
Do you sometimes read the newspaper and, like me, just want to scream? And no, I am not talking just about this column.
< Read more > - Friday August 03, 2007
The House passes a bill that says its funding can't be used to close labs, including Lakewood's.
< Read more > - Thursday August 02, 2007
Democrats pushed through legislation Wednesday to add 6 million lower-income children to a popular health insurance program while making deep cuts in federal payments to Medicare HMOs, defying a veto threat from President Bush.
< Read more > - Thursday August 02, 2007
The Senate passed a $35 billion expansion of a children's health insurance program Thursday, setting up a difficult negotiation with the House and a probable veto by President Bush.
< Read more > - Thursday August 02, 2007
The Senate may follow the House as soon as today in voting to expand a U.S. health insurance program for low-income children, defying a veto threat by President George W. Bush.
< Read more > - Tuesday July 31, 2007
He claims the House expansion plan would let illegal immigrants get the health coverage.
< Read more > - Friday July 27, 2007
Legislation that would expand children's health insurance comes to the floor in both chambers this week in a far more partisan climate than either party expected.
< Read more > - Friday July 27, 2007
Wall Street Journal -- Pelosi-backed House proposal aims to wean electricity producers off coal by requiring greater use of wind and solar power. The proposed mandate, sponsored by Democratic Reps. DeGette of Colorado and Udall of New Mexico, would require utilities to produce 20% of their power from renewable sources.
< Read more > - Wednesday July 25, 2007
Denver Post, Associated Press -- Several Western lawmakers are leading an effort in the House to set a national requirement that utilities produce 20 percent of their electricity from wind, solar and other renewable energy sources by 2020.
< Read more > - Tuesday July 24, 2007
New York Times -- Republican leaders of the House and Senate on Tuesday attacked proposals that call for a major expansion of the Children's Health Insurance Program, to be financed with higher tobacco taxes.
< Read more > - Tuesday July 17, 2007
The Denver Post -- It's one of seven targeted nationwide. Congress has criticized the move in light of the agency's failure to bar contaminated food.
< Read more > - Friday July 13, 2007
Associated Press -- Lawmakers in a key Senate committee brokered a bipartisan agreement Friday that they said would extend health insurance to an additional 3.3 million low-income children in the U.S.
< Read more > - Friday July 13, 2007
Congress Daily -- House Republicans and Democrats are preparing competing healthcare proposals that might be unveiled as early as next week, leading up to what could be a massive floor battle over health policy in September, lawmakers and aides said Thursday.
< Read more > - Thursday July 12, 2007
Congressional Quarterly -- The chief Republican architects of a deal to expand a children's health insurance program are defending the proposal against criticism by President Bush, who has threatened to "resist" it.
< Read more > - Thursday July 12, 2007
Rocky Mountain News -- Business, health leaders join to push for national system
< Read more > - Thursday June 28, 2007
Denver Daily News -- Following in the footsteps of Gov. Bill Ritter, Congresswoman Diana DeGette sparked discussion in the House yesterday over creating renewable energy standards for the nation's energy portfolio.
< Read more > - Tuesday June 26, 2007
Fox News -- Democrats long skeptical that abstinence-only programs are more effective than "comprehensive" sex-ed classes are trying to reverse Bush administration policy and kill a key entitlement program for abstinence-only funding set to expire Jun. 30.
< Read more > - Friday June 22, 2007
Denver Post -- A day after Bush's veto, a $152 billion spending bill with a stem-cell provision is on its way to the Senate.
< Read more > - Thursday June 21, 2007
Congress Daily -- The Senate agreed today to limit debate on an energy package but not on the accompanying tax incentives, while striking a deal on federal fuel efficiency standards.
< Read more > - Wednesday June 20, 2007
New York Times -- I AGREE with Ellen Goodman ("The red and blue of stem cells," Op-ed, June 15) that President Bush is putting politics before science by stubbornly refusing to sign potentially life-saving legislation allowing for broader federal funding of stem cell research. However, I want to clarify that embryonic stem cell advocates support all types of stem cell research, including adult stem cells.
< Read more > - Wednesday June 20, 2007
Associated Press -- Vetoing a stem cell bill for the second time, President Bush on Wednesday sought to placate those who disagree with him by signing an executive order urging scientists toward what he termed "ethically responsible" research in the field.
< Read more > - Friday June 15, 2007
The Hill -- Supporters of stem cell research refuse to give up on getting their legislation signed into law this year.
< Read more > - Friday June 15, 2007
Rocky Mountain News -- An advocacy group's collection of stories about gaps in health care for immigrant children features one told by Maria Zubia, of Commerce City.
< Read more > - Friday June 08, 2007
Washington Post -- The House easily passed legislation yesterday that would loosen President Bush's six-year-old restrictions on embryonic stem cell research, but the vote once again fell short of the two-thirds majority needed to override a promised veto.
< Read more > - Friday June 08, 2007
Denver Post, Associated Press -- The Democrat-controlled Congress passed legislation Thursday to loosen restraints on federally funded embryonic stem-cell research, but supporters lacked the votes needed to override President Bush's promised veto.
< Read more > - Friday June 08, 2007
The Wall Street Journal -- The House passed and sent to President Bush legislation to ease restrictions on the federal financing of research on embryonic stem cells. But the bill is sure to draw a veto, and Congress is unlikely to be able to override it.
< Read more > - Thursday June 07, 2007
Washington Post -- "Living with someone every day who has one of these diseases, you start to understand when people say we have to find cures," says Rep. Diana DeGette, who has made a bill to ease restrictions on stem cell research a priority.
< Read more > - Thursday June 07, 2007
After a fiery reprise of arguments that have played out repeatedly over the years, the House cleared legislation Thursday that would expand federal funding of embryonic stem cell research.
< Read more > - Thursday June 07, 2007
Congress Daily -- House Republican leaders vowed today to uphold an anticipated presidential veto of a bill permitting federal funding of embryonic stem cell research the House passed this afternoon on a 247-176 vote.
< Read more > - Thursday June 07, 2007
The Denver Post, Associated Press -- Spoiling for a veto fight, Congress cleared legislation Thursday easing restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
< Read more > - Thursday June 07, 2007
Associated Press -- Facing Veto, Congress Again Passes Bill to Allow New Federal Support for Stem Cell Research
< Read more > - Thursday June 07, 2007
They say you always remember your first, and just in case he doesn't, Congress is making sure President Bush doesn't forget his veto of embryonic stem cell research.
< Read more > - Thursday June 07, 2007
Associated Press -- The Democratic-controlled Congress passed legislation Thursday to loosen restraints on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, but the bill's supporters lacked the votes needed to override President Bush's threatened veto.
< Read more > - Thursday June 07, 2007
Rocky Mountain News, Associated Press -- Spoiling for a veto fight, Congress cleared legislation today easing restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research.
< Read more > - Tuesday June 05, 2007
The Denver Post --
< Read more > - Monday June 04, 2007
Associated Press -- After meeting with the families of U.S. soldiers, Colorado Congresswoman Diana DeGette says she will co-sponsor two bills that would revoke President Bush's authorization for the Iraq war and bring troops home by next June.
< Read more > - Wednesday May 30, 2007
Associated Press -- Congress intends to send President Bush legislation next week to ease restrictions on federally funded embryonic stem cell research, inviting his second veto in as many years on the subject.
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