All posts tagged "Diana Degette"

Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), who has served in Congress for nearly 30 years, lost a heated primary race on Tuesday night to Melat Kiros, a lawyer and Democratic Socialist.

The race was called by NBC News and Bloomberg's Decision Desk HQ, with Kiros taking home more than 49 percent of the vote.

DeGette's loss is the latest in a series of high-profile incumbent lawmakers ousted by candidates representing more extreme or progressive wings of their respective parties. So far, eight U.S. House incumbents have been denied renomination this cycle (including DeGette), along with two senators, according to Sabato's Crystal Ball. At the state level, 22 Democratic incumbents have lost their primary races compared to 76 Republican incumbents, according to data from Ballotpedia....

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and the Republican Party have a problem on their hands: The congresswoman’s offensively headline-grabbing ways in Washington have turned her safe Republican seat into a toss-up that promises to be one of the most expensive House races in 2024 — if not in history.

In 2022, Boebert beat local businessman Adam Frisch by a mere 546 votes, but Frisch — who is angling for a rematch — continues to lap her in fundraising for the 2024 cycle.

With a haul of more than $2.6 million for the second quarter, Frisch raked in more than three times Boebert’s roughly $818,000, which she says is because Democrats want to “buy this seat.”...

WASHINGTON — Under fire from angry Republicans, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu denied Thursday that now bankrupt solar panel firm Solyndra leveraged political ties to President Barack Obama for a government loan.

WASHINGTON – A US nuclear reactor near Baltimore would come dangerously close to meltdown within two days of a disaster on the scale of what happened in Japan three weeks ago, a lawmaker said, citing a draft report by the US nuclear watchdog.

Congress isn’t going to regulate hydraulic fracturing any time soon. But the Department of Interior might. For starters, Interior is mulling whether it should require drilling companies to disclose the chemicals they use to frack wells drilled on public lands, and already the suggestion has earned Interior Secretary Ken Salazar an earful.

House Democrats scolded oil company executives Wednesday over the Gulf Coast disaster, mocking their plan to stop the main leak by plugging it with garbage consisting partly of golf balls.