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September 24, 2020

Two amendments from U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette will be included in a clean energy bill under consideration, one to limit methane emissions from extraction operations on public land and the second to require the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to identify and remediate at least 100 communities suffering under violations of environmental law.

September 24, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives, by a vote of 220 – 185, voted today to approve a sweeping new clean-energy bill that seeks to combat the climate crisis by driving the innovation and use of new clean-energy technologies across the country and thereby lowering the nation’s greenhouse gas emissions.
September 24, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), the chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Oversight and Investigations panel, and others sent a letter today calling for a formal U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General investigation into allegations that the White House and its appointees have interfered with the work of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists responding to the COVID-19 pandemic for political purposes.

September 24, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives voted today to include two key amendments authored by U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) in a sweeping new clean-energy bill the chamber is expected to vote on this Friday.

September 23, 2020
A key House oversight panel, led by U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), announced today that it will hold a hearing next week to hear directly from some of the nation’s leading scientists and public health experts about the criteria that makers of a COVID-19 vaccine should be required to meet before any potential cure is approved for distribution here in the U.S.
September 22, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives voted today to approve a short-term spending bill that will fund the federal government through December 11 and avert a government shutdown at the end of the month.
September 19, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Barbara Lee (D-CA), the co-chairs of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, released the following statement today as the group vows to carry on Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s legacy of fighting for women’s rights:
September 18, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) released the following statement on the passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg:
September 17, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Newly published press reports have brought into question statements Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar made under oath in March 2019 when he told lawmakers he had no knowledge of the Trump administration’s plan to separate immigrant children from their families at the border before the policy was announced.
September 17, 2020

After a whistleblower complaint made public this week about alleged nonconsensual medical operations performed on detained immigrant women, Denver Democratic U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette is calling for the Department of Homeland Security's inspector general to investigate.

"If true, the severe medical neglect that allegedly took place at this ICE facility is unconscionable and constitutes a blatant disregard for human life," said DeGette, along with U.S. Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif., in a statement.