Yesterday the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to temporarily preserve emergency care for pregnant people under the Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act (EMTALA), a nearly 40-year-old federal law which requires hospitals to not turn away patients.
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DeGette Oversees House Committee Meeting on Consequences of Roe v. Wade’s Reversal
Yesterday morning, the US House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce, chaired by US Representative Diana DeGette (D-CO), heard six testimonies from key-witnesses on the US Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson and its implications for the future of reproductive health care in the United States.
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DeGette Measure To Undo Trump Methane Rollback Advanced by House Committee
The House Energy and Commerce Committee voted on Thursday to advance a resolution sponsored by Colorado Rep. Diana DeGette to nullify a Trump administration rollback of federal environmental regulations limiting methane emissions from oil and gas infrastructure.
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U.S. Lawmakers: New ICE Stance on International Students is “Cruel”
A recent Trump administration decision to mandate that international students take at least one in-person course this fall–or risk deportation by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)–has drastically impacted the lives of non-immigration international students studying in the U.S.
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Fears Rise as COVID Kills Eighth Worker at Greeley Meat Plant
An eighth worker died at the JBS meatpacking facility in Greeley this weekend, raising questions about worker safety there.
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Congresswoman DeGette Backs “Carbon Capture” to Fight Climate Change
WASHINGTON DC– With climate change on the minds of voters across the country heading into the 2020 election, a U.S. House panel met Friday to debate a bill boosting technology that would trap and store carbon dioxide, the principal gas causing global warming, from major polluters like the transportation and industrial sectors.
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DeGette Presses Trump Administration on Shortage of Drug Inspectors
Since President Donald Trump took office, the number of inspectors tasked with ensuring the safety of drugs imported into the United States declined by more than 10 percent, leaving lawmakers to question the quality of imported prescription drugs, which account for about 40% of prescription drugs used in the U.S.
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Court Decision on Whether to Kill Obamacare Could Hit Hard in Colorado
Health care advocates in Colorado are worried that any day now, a federal court could move the nation towards undoing the Affordable Care Act, a development that would create a chaotic situation, and by one estimate, double the number of uninsured in the state.
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Gardner, Lamborn get failing grades on environmental group’s scorecard
The League of Conservation Voters (LCV), a national environmental group, released its annual congressional scorecard Tuesday, spotlighting its ratings of Colorado’s delegation, which ranged from 100 percent (Democratic Congressman Ed Perlmutter and Jared Polis) to 0 percent (Republican Sen. Cory Gardner and U.S. Rep. Doug Lamborn).
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DeGette called a “White Supremacist” by Republican opponent
Denver congressional candidate Casper Stockham is accusing his Democratic opponent, U.S. Rep Diana DeGette (D-CO), of being a “white supremacist.”