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WASHINGTON –U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) headed the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigation's latest effort to examine fraud and abuse in Medicare Part D. Vulnerabilities in the Medicare Part D prescription drug program. Today's hearing focused on inappropriate prescribing and diversion of opioids; this is the subcommittee's fifth hearing in an ongoing investigation of the prescription drug abuse epidemic across the country.
The bacteria-tainted apple that probably killed Shirlee Frey traveled hundreds of miles from an orchard to a packinghouse and then to a factory that coated it in caramel. It never came anywhere close to being examined or tested by a food-safety inspector.
Throughout the intensely interesting and harrowing trial of James Holmes, there is one issue that has seemingly disappeared.
How did a man fantasizing of killing people have such easy access to guns and ammunition?
The issue was front and center after the July 20, 2012, massacre in an Aurora movie theater that killed 12 and injured 70.
Politicians, anti-gun advocates and opinion-shapers pounded the topic, outraged once again at the absurdity of American's lax gun laws.
WASHINGTON — By the standards of the modern Congress, Representatives Fred Upton, Republican of Michigan, and Diana DeGette, Democrat of Colorado, have no business writing health care legislation together.
Mr. Upton, the buttoned-up chairman of the powerful Energy and Commerce Committee, is one of the House Republicans' go-to representatives on dismantling the Affordable Care Act. Ms. DeGette, a member of the Democratic leadership who leans decidedly left of center, counts herself among the central champions of the health care law.
With exquisite timing, House Republicans last week stepped into a public-relations debacle. The House was working to pass an appropriations bill for the Department of the Interior, but the longstanding bipartisan process on spending bills has been shattered, meaning that there would be no Democratic votes for the highly partisan bill. That, in turn, meant that Republican leaders had to corral the vast majority of their own members, including many who reflexively vote against spending bills.
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. House of Representatives today approved H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act, by a vote of 344-77. The nonpartisan legislation will help to bring our health care system into the 21st Century, investing in science and medical innovation, incorporating the patient perspective, and modernizing clinical trials, to deliver better, faster cures to more patients and loved ones in need.
Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) joined Rep. Barbara Lee (CA-13), Rep. Jan Schakowsky (IL-09), and 62 co-sponsors to introduce the Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance Act or EACH Woman Act.
The bill would ensure health coverage of abortion for every woman regardless of her income, how she is insured or where she lives. In essence the bill would end the harmful Hyde Amendment policies that restrict a woman's ability to make the best healthcare decisions for herself and her family.
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, the House Committee on Energy and Commerce Republicans filed a substitute amendment to H.R. 6, the 21st Century Cures Act. In a last minute change, the new language fell $1.25 billion short in mandatory funding for research at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) and Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (MI-06) will headline a panel on Saturday with former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg at the Aspen Ideas Festival 2015: Spotlight Health.
Washington – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (CO-01) released the following statement after the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the right to marry:
"Finally, every loving couple in the United States may choose to express their commitment in marriage and be assured of its legal benefits and responsibilities. This is a proud moment in our ongoing march towards full equality.
"I was particularly touched by Justice Kennedy's observation about the children of same sex couples, who have borne the burden of the inequality of their parents' relationships, observing: