Press Releases

DENVER, CO – Following is a statement from U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) on the president’s decision today to send 100 ventilators to Colorado at the request of Senator Gardner, just days after the administration blocked a shipment of 500 ventilators to the state:

DENVER, CO – Tens of thousands of Americans rely on hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat conditions such as lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and malaria. But as President Trump continues to flaunt these medications as a miracle cure to the novel coronavirus – despite insufficient clinical trials – patients who need these drugs for FDA-approved uses are facing shortages.

DENVER, CO – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Jared Huffman (D-CA) and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar today urging him to immediately lift restrictions on human fetal tissue research, which are preventing scientists from advancing important studies to potentially prevent, treat and cure the novel coronavirus.

DENVER, CO – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar today on his agency’s failure to fully utilize all available sources of existing ventilators across the various federal stockpiles.

DENVER, CO – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee’s Oversight and Investigations panel – which oversees the agencies responsible for responding to the spread of the coronavirus – blasted the Trump administration today for changes to the Strategic National Stockpile website.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives today approved a critical economic relief package to help workers and small businesses impacted by the coronavirus pandemic.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) joined Andy Levin (D-MI) and a bipartisan group of colleagues in introducing legislation today calling on President Trump to make urgent use of his authority under the Defense Production Act to increase production of the equipment and supplies needed to respond to the rapid spread of the coronavirus.

U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) sent a letter to President Trump today demanding that he immediately use all the powers afforded to him by the Defense Production Act to increase the production of personal protective equipment – such as masks and respirators – as well as other supplies that frontline health care workers need to address the ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus.