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June 25, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) and Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) – who serve as senior members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee – released the findings of a year-long committee investigation into health insurers' practice of selling so-called "junk health care plans" that offer consumers no real coverage.

June 25, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. House of Representatives voted today to approve a sweeping new police-reform bill that seeks to curb police brutality, end racial profiling and hold law enforcement officials more accountable to the people they swore to protect.
June 24, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. – While coronavirus-related research is now in overdrive, most other research has been slowed down or stopped altogether due to pandemic-induced closures of campuses and laboratories.

June 24, 2020

The official who until recently oversaw the nation's COVID-19 testing efforts told U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette on Tuesday that contrary to President Donald Trump's repeated public statements, he was never pressured to decrease coronavirus testing.

June 22, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Dr. Anthony Fauci, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, CDC Director Robert Redfield and Assistant Secretary for Health Brett Giroir will testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee tomorrow to provide the panel an update on what's being done to curb the spread of COVID-19 here in the U.S. and what more can be done to protect the public health.

June 16, 2020

WASHINGTON, D.C. – While the Trump administration has encouraged the use of telemedicine across the health care industry during the pandemic, it has refused to relax rules around medication abortion, a move that experts warn may put both patients and providers at greater risk of contracting the coronavirus.

June 12, 2020
As your representative, I am also doing everything I can to ensure that the passion and urgency being expressed on our streets is felt in the halls of Congress. This week, I joined a group of colleagues – led by the Congressional Black Caucus – to introduce sweeping legislation to end police brutality and hold law enforcement officials accountable.
June 8, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – After millions of Americans took to the streets in recent weeks to demand racial justice, a group of Congressional Democrats today introduced sweeping legislation to end police brutality and hold law enforcement officials accountable.
June 5, 2020
As we continue to seek justice for George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and countless other Black Americans who have been killed at the hands of law enforcement officials, I wanted to provide an update on the key legislative action items that my colleagues and I are working to pass in Congress.
June 5, 2020

U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette is among the cosponsors of a congressional resolution to form a racial reconciliation commission, prompted by a week of protests over the killing of black Americans by police.