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A variety of actresses, Obama administration officials and members of Congress will join first lady Michelle Obama for a series of mentoring activities in Denver Monday. Rep. Betsy Markey, D-Fort Collins, will be among those participating. She and actress...
Tags: Denver West High School, Michelle Obama, Denver, John Hickenlooper, Kathleen Sebelius, Diana DeGette, Colorado, Presidency of Barack Obama, Michael Bennet, Barack Obama, Human Interest
The call came in from Rome, just as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and top lieutenants in her Democratic Party were scrambling to round up scarce votes to pass their sweeping health overhaul legislation...McCarrick, the former Roman Catholic archbishop of...
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Capps, a school nurse before taking office, has been a lifelong champion of health-care reform and a critic of the health insurance system. She termed the 220-215 House vote in favor of the health reform measure as nothing less than “historic,” exclaiming...
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Is it me or does it seem like the world is suddenly deteriorating into the abyss? Do you ever wonder what you would do differently if you had God's job? (replace God with whatever your non-Christian God is, if applicable) Do you wonder if God is even...
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A hearing of the House Natural Resources Committee Thursday morning will focus on the art of hydraulic fracturing and, more broadly, shale gas production. Some Democrats, including Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado, have charged that hydraulic fracturing...
Tags: hydraulic fracturing, Colorado Democratic, Diana DeGette, federal regulate, safe drinking, federal safe, drinking water, water act, gas drilling
Rep. Diana DeGette has been re-appointed vice chair of the powerful House Energy and Commerce Committee, a position that will give her significant sway over two of biggest issues facing the next Congress — climate change policy and health care reform.
Tags: Diana DeGette, Energy and Commerce Committee, vice chair
Rep. Diana DeGette withdrew her name from consideration for appointment to Colorado's senate seat, which will be open upon the confirmation of Sen. Ken Salazar as U.S. Secretary of the Interior. "After serious deliberation and consultation with my family,...
Tags: Diana DeGette, Senate, Colorado, Ken Salazar, First Congressional District
Waxman, hoping to resolve their battle over the chairmanship of the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee, one senior Democratic aide confirmed on Wednesday. But neither combatant has agreed to a deal and the dispute may still be resolved by a secret...
Tags: Energy and Commerce Committee, Waxman-Dingell, John Dingell, Diana DeGette
Changing the law on embryonic stem-cell research will be one of the first moves taken by Congress and the Obama administration after the president-elect takes office, Rep. Diana DeGette said Wednesday. The Denver Democrat said Barack Obama has "told me...
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Betsy Markey won a sweeping victory over incumbent Rep. Marilyn Musgrave Tuesday, becoming the first Democrat in two generations to represent Northern Colorado in Congress. Speaking to hundreds of supporters at a Democratic victory party at the Fort...
Tags: Ed Perlmutter, Betsy Markey, Diana DeGette, Barack Obama, Marilyn Musgrave, Northern Colorado, U.S. Congress, 7th Congressional District, Jared Polis, John Lerew