Press Releases
November 13, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than 140 members of the U.S. House of Representatives – led by U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Nita Lowey (D-NY) – sent a letter today to the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Department of State and Department of Health and Human Services expressing their opposition to the administration’s plan to expand the so-called Global Gag Rule, which prohibits foreign organizations that receive U.S. global health assistance from providing information, referrals, or services for abortion care.
October 31, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A key piece of legislation, originally introduced in the House by U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), to reform how the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committees operate was signed into law last night.
October 26, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Barbara Lee (D-CA), as co-chairs of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, issued the following statement after the Senate voted tonight to confirm Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court:
October 23, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A trio of senior U.S. lawmakers who oversee the agency responsible for caring for the migrant children who are separated from their parents at the border are demanding to know what the Trump administration is doing to locate the parents of 545 kids who reportedly still remain separated from their families more than two years after the administration’s abhorrent family-separation policy ended.
October 8, 2020
WASHINGTON, DC – Pro-Choice Caucus Co-Chairs U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Barbara Lee (D-CA) – along with 11 Pro-Choice Caucus Task Force chairs – led a letter, signed by 116 members of the House, to Senate leaders today urging them to delay confirming any Supreme Court nominee to replace the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg until after the next president is sworn into office.
October 7, 2020
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Oversight and Investigations panel – which directly oversees the Dept. of Health and Human Services and the Food and Drug Administration – sent a letter today to HHS Secretary Alex Azar raising serious concerns over the agency’s decision to allow laboratory-developed tests, or LDTs, for COVID-19 to be used throughout the country without FDA review.
October 2, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives approved a $2.2 trillion coronavirus-relief bill today that’s designed to help tens of millions of families and small businesses that are struggling to stay afloat amid the ongoing pandemic.
October 1, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congress today approved legislation to reform how the U.S. Olympic Committee operates in the wake of several high-profile sexual-abuse scandals that have raised doubts about the organization’s ability to care for our nation’s top athletes.
October 1, 2020
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and other leaders of the House Energy and Commerce Committee – which oversees the nation’s public health – sent a letter today to Department of Homeland Security Acting Secretary Chad Wolf demanding to know what the agency is doing to investigate claims of unwanted hysterectomies being performed on immigrant women detained at an ICE detention facility in Georgia.
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September 29, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives today approved legislation to provide the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency the funding and tools it needs to ensure the world's top athletes are able to compete on a level playing field when the Olympics returns to the United States in 2028.