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On Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020 at 11:30am ET, the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee - chaired by U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) – will hold a hearing entitled, "Pathway to a Vaccine: Ensuring a Safe and Effective Vaccine People Will Trust."
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives today approved legislation to provide the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency the funding and tools it needs to ensure the world's top athletes are able to compete on a level playing field when the Olympics returns to the United States in 2028.
The bill – introduced by U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) – will fund the anti-doping agency through 2029, ensuring the agency has the resources it needs to prepare for, and oversee, the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.
Over the years, there have been numerous challenges in the way the United States has approached reproductive health. We rely on our public health institutions to make decisions using the best data to get the best outcomes. Twenty years ago, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved mifepristone, the pill for medication abortion with numerous restrictions on who could prescribe the medication, where it could be taken and where it could be dispensed.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), who serves as co-chair of the Congressional Pro-Choice Caucus, released the following statement on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court:
"Just because Judge Barrett is a woman doesn't mean she's a champion of women's rights. In fact, Judge Barrett has a long history of opposing women's constitutional right to reproductive care and to control what happens to their own body.
Three House Democrats are questioning the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) decision to postpone a training that was part of a series on environmental inequity faced by communities of color and low-income communities last month.
The EPA's decision to put off the event came in response to a White House memo telling agencies to "cease and desist from using taxpayer dollars to fund...divisive, un-American propaganda training sessions."
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.
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.
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.