Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Tom Rice (R-SC) introduced bipartisan legislation today to make a key federal diabetes-prevention program more accessible to more Americans.
The legislation – known as the PREVENT DIABETES Act – would expand access to the Medicare Diabetes Prevention Program by making it available online. Under current law, the program is only available to qualifying Medicare beneficiaries who attend in-person classes, leaving many seniors and rural Americans who could otherwise benefit from the program unable to utilize it.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Officials from Texas will likely face some intense scrutiny this week when a key House oversight panel holds a hearing Wednesday to investigate what caused widespread blackouts that left millions of people throughout Texas without power, food, water and heat for up to four days during a severe storm that moved across the southern half of the country last month.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Tomorrow, the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations panel will hear from some of the nation's top environmental experts – including three former U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials – on the urgent need to restore the mission of the EPA in wake of the Trump administration's four-years-long push to weaken the agency.