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"The Republican majority was willing to give the President the benefit of the doubt, and we are not going to be waiting for it work out. If kids are going to be taken from their parents at the border, we are going to be immediately investigating it," said Rep. Diana DeGette, the chair of the Energy and Commerce subcommittee on investigations. "It says we are not afraid to exercise our Article 1 prerogative of oversight of the executive branch."

Democratic Representatives Frank Pallone and Diana DeGette, the chairman and a top-ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, respectively, wrote to the heads of Eli Lilly and Co, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi, the long-time leading manufacturers of insulin. The drugmakers have all raised the price of insulin at similar rates over the last several years.

“These actions are particularly alarming in light of the recent warnings underscoring the impacts of climate change on air quality and the health of the American people,” Pallone and Reps. Paul Tonko (D-N.Y.) and Diana DeGette (D-Colo.) wrote in their Monday letter to acting EPA chief Andrew Wheeler.

During the earlier discussion with DeGette, a Democrat who represents Colorado’s 1st Congressional District, workers talked about how they have been personally impacted. They included traffic controllers, National Parks employees and workers from the EPA. They spoke of financial hardship, depression of coworkers and some explained how their agencies have been downgraded during the work stoppage.

“These are children who are often desperately fleeing terrible violence back home,” said Representative Diana DeGette, Democrat of Colorado. “They are literally running for their lives and asking for our country to help. Instead of offering them help, this proposal would require border officials to turn a deaf ear to their desperate pleas and send these kids back to the very places they just risked their lives to escape.”

U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, was named chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Oversight and Investigations panel. The move Jan. 15 move gives the Colorado Democrat considerable sway to influence future policy decisions related to health care and the environment as her party once again takes control of the U.S. House of Representatives.

A House panel sent a letter Friday to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar requesting he turn over documents related to the administration's "zero-tolerance" policy that led to the separation of families apprehended along the southern border.

U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Denver Democrat, is at the helm of one of Congress’ most powerful investigations panels after her party’s stunning November victories — a role that means she wields subpoena powers.