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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO), chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Oversight and Investigations panel, and Frank Pallone (D-NJ), chair of the full committee, today launched an investigation into allegations of physical and sexual abuse of migrant children by U.S. Customs and Border Patrol officers.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO) and Fred Upton (R-MI) issued the following joint statement today on the four-year anniversary of the U.S. House of Representatives passing their 21st Century Cures Act:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Oversight and Investigations panel, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), announced today that her subcommittee will hold a hearing next week on the Trump administration's efforts to curb the increasing threat posed by synthetic opioids, such as fentanyl, which have been linked to more than half of the nation's opioid-related deaths.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A landmark piece of legislation to permanently protect more than 740,000 acres of Colorado wilderness is set to get its first major Congressional hearing this week.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following is a comment from U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) on her vote today against an emergency spending bill that Congress approved without any significant new protections for the thousands of migrant children in U.S. custody:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), chair of the House oversight panel that directly oversees the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, spoke by phone today with HHS's Jonathan Hayes, who heads the agency charged with caring for thousands of migrant children detained at the border. DeGette expressed to Hayes her concerns over recent reports that more than one hundred migrant children were transferred back to a U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The chair of the House subcommittee responsible for directly overseeing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the agency responsible for housing thousands of migrant children arriving at the Southern border, said today that her panel is "actively and aggressively monitoring" the agency's actions to care for more than 12,000 migrant kids in its custody.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation today to help lower consumers' overall health care costs by making more over-the-counter medications available to patients.
The legislation – led by U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette (D-CO), Bob Latta (R-OH), Debbie Dingell (D-MI) and Brett Guthrie (R-KY) – would reform the system that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration currently uses to review and approve new over-the-counter drugs for market, known as the OTC monograph system.