Press Releases
Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) released the following statement on the president's State of the Union speech this evening:
"What we heard tonight was classic state-of-the-union Trump, who tells everybody what they want to hear. Unfortunately, what we are forced to live with every other day is a president whose actions are doing real harm to our country – from shutting down the government, to ripping families apart at the border, to making it harder for women to get the family planning services they need.
Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), chair of the House oversight panel investigating the Trump administration's child-separation policy, today announced the full list of witnesses set to testify this week at the committee's first oversight hearing on the administration's controversial policy.
The hearing, scheduled to take place Thursday, Feb 7, at 10:30am EST in room 2123 of the Rayburn House Office Building, will be DeGette's first as chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Oversight and Investigations panel.
Washington, DC. – The chairman of the House oversight panel investigating the Trump administration's child-separation policy, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), announced today that her committee will hold its first hearing on the administration's controversial policy one week from today.
The announcement comes just one day before the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services is due to turn over dozens of internal documents to DeGette's committee as part of its ongoing investigation of the administration's actions.
Washington, DC – Two of the top Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee joined forces today in calling on the heads of three major U.S. pharmaceutical companies to explain the recent skyrocketing cost of insulin.
U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) sent letters to the heads of Eli Lilly, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi – three of the top manufactures of insulin in the U.S. – asking them to explain the rapidly increasing cost drug; and why they are not providing a more affordable treatment to patients in need.
Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) sponsored legislation introduced today to make it a federal crime to engage in a doping scheme designed to influence the outcome of a major international athletic competition, such as the Olympics.
The move comes one week after the World Anti-Doping Agency refused to uphold the suspension of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency for its role in the 2014 Russian state-sponsored doping scandal that took place at the Sochi Olympics.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) today joined with several of her House colleagues to introduce legislation that would block the implementation of President Donald Trump's travel ban policy.
Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), chair of the House oversight panel that oversees the Environmental Protection Agency, sent a letter today to the head of the EPA demanding detailed information about the Trump Administration's efforts to roll back several key environmental and public health protections.
The letter comes as the EPA seeks to roll back mercury and air-toxicity standards across the nation – a move designed to save companies billions of dollars a year, while also increasing the risk of illness and even premature death for thousands of Americans.
Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) released the following statement today on the agreement to temporarily reopen the government:
Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) today was appointed to serve as a member of the House Natural Resources Committee.
The move gives the Colorado Democrat even more sway to influence future environmental policy as it comes just one week after she was named the Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's powerful and far-reaching Oversight and Investigations panel, which has direct oversight authority over the Environmental Protection Agency.
Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), the Chair of the House panel currently investigating the Trump administration's child-separation policy, released the following statement today calling the Senate's proposal to prevent Central American children from applying for asylum at the border "more inhumane and un-American than Trump's disastrous zero-tolerance policy itself":