Amspecblog (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
The Hill's Michael O'Brien reports that Diana DeGette (D-CO), co-chairwoman of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, while discussing the viability of the Stupak Amendment, claimed that the...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) suffers from "religious bigotry" for suggesting religiously-affiliated groups should not take part in the healthcare debate, a top social conservative group alleged Tuesday. The Family Research Council (FRC) said that DeGette of characterizing people of faith as "second class" citizens for suggesting that religious groups like the...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The Hill misquoted Rep. Diana DeGette yesterday, and I relied on their misquotation in a post . She said that the Catholic bishops should be among the groups that have input into legislation; she did not oppose their having input. Glad to hear it.
The Denver Business Journal (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, said Thursday she was "pleased" with language concerning abortion in a new U.S. Senate health-care reform measure, in contrast to her opposition to anti-abortion provisions in a different health bill passed earlier by the House.
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
"Her religious bigotry is a far cry from what the Founders believed. Several months after the British surrender at Yorktown, George Washington, in a letter to the Reformed German Congregation of New York, wrote, 'The establishment of civil and religious liberty was the motive which induced me to the field (of combat).' Sadly, Diana DeGette seems eager to smother these precious freedoms,...
Open Left (Free subscription) | 14/11/2009
... A fter passage of the Stupak-Pitts Amendment and the House Health Care Reform bill, Congresswoman Diana DeGette, Democratic Deputy Whip and Co-chair of the Pro-Choice Caucus, announced she had sent a letter to Speaker Pelosi signed by over 40 members saying they would not support a final bill with Stupak's language in it. While the controversy over Stupak's Amendment had ebbed and...
Marc Ambinder (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), a co-Chairwoman of the House Pro-Choice Caucus, has been an outspoken critic of the abortion language included in the House health care bill. In the interview that follows, she makes the case that current language in the House health care bill--proposed by Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI) and passed on the House floor shortly before the entire package was voted on--amounts...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Rep. Diana DeGette got a lot of publicity for generating a letter vowing to vote against any bill that returns to the House from conference committee with the Stupak amendment intact. She claims to have at least 41 names on that letter, more than enough to block the bill from going forward. But [...]
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
MATTHEWS: Welcome back to HARDBALL. U.S. Congresswoman Diana DeGette of Colorado is co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus and she is opposed to the Stupak amendment language that wound up in the House bill. Congresswoman, thank you for joining us. What do you make of the president‘s statement, both before the Congress, where he said-back to two months ago-well, let‘s...
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
RACHEL MADDOW: Joining us now Democratic Congresswoman Diana DeGette of Colorado, co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus. She is circulating that letter which now has about 40 signatures of House Democrats who say they will oppose the health care bill if it's used to restrict abortion rights. Congresswoman DeGette, thanks very much for joining us tonight. REP. DIANA...
Today With President Barack Obama (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Diana DeGette, who railed against the Stupak amendment (prevents federally-funded abortions, including abortion coverage from private insurance plans if the plan is being purchased by a woman who gets government subsidies ), says it will be stripped in conference. She expects to meet with Obama next week on this issue. Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the...
Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
... the headline "FRC Calls On President Obama, Speaker Pelosi, and Senator Reid to Repudiate Diana DeGette's Religious Bigotry," which stated Family Research Council President Tony Perkins today called on President Obama and Congressional leaders to repudiate comments made by U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) to The Hill's Michael O'Brien that "religiously-affiliated...
ColoradoPols.com - Front Page (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
From the Colorado Independent : Colorado U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette drew venom from conservative and Catholic bloggers yesterday for comments she made to ABC on the role Catholic bishops should be playing in shaping health care reform. But the venom was based on misquotes of the ABC interview published at The Hill, a political news website. Colorado right-wing blogger Michelle Malkin led...
Right, Wing-Nut! (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
... abortion. Kennedy's allies in Congress are fighting back against the powers of good, as Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) talks about denying the Church its 1st Amendment rights : She also said that religiously-affiliated groups like the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, which had pushed for the Stupak provision, should be shut out of the process. "Last I heard, we had separation...
Alternet (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Pro-choice House members have also laid down a marker, with as many as 40 saying that if the bill produced by a conference committee -- the last step in the legislative process before a final bill, where House and Senate bills will be combined -- contains the Stupak language, they won't vote for it. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Colo., who co-chairs the House Pro-Choice Caucus with Rep. Louis...
