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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. Now, tens of thousands of graduate students, postdocs, principal investigators and other technical support staff are at risk of losing their employment and their work without federal relief. Additionally, with this research stopped, America may lose the benefits that come with new technologies and scientific insights.

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.

"Neither the president nor anyone in the administration has instructed or suggested we should do less testing," said Admiral Brett Giroir. "We are proceeding in just the opposite."

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.