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July 1, 2020

U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette is asking the Trump Administration to explain whether political interference is affecting the scientific work of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention amid the coronavirus pandemic.

June 30, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Legislation introduced by U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) isprecisely what the country needs to help solve the climate crisis, according to a new report by the U.S. House Select Committee on Climate Crisis.
June 30, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), two of the top Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce committee – which oversees the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – sent a letter to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar demanding an explanation as to why, during the midst of a global pandemic, the Trump Administration has sidelined the agency responsible for responding to such a crisis.
June 29, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations panels – which oversees the nation’s health care industry – said today she has concerns over the proposed cost of a potentially life-saving coronavirus treatment, known as remdesivir, after its maker, Gilead Sciences, announced it plans to charge patients in the U.S. $3,120 for a typical five-day treatment of the medication.
June 26, 2020
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) and Bill Foster (D-IL) sent a letter today to U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar demanding answers about the Trump Administration’s decision to abruptly terminate a National Institutes of Health grant that was awarded to EcoHealth Alliance to conduct research on bats and the coronaviruses.
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.