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House panel requests additional documents on family separation

February 5, 2019

"We had hoped the agency would promptly cooperate with our committee as we fulfill our oversight responsibility -- but, unfortunately, it appears that's not going to be the case," said Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado, who heads the panel, in a statement to CNN. "HHS's refusal to comply with this routine request is just the latest in what seems to be a new trend that's emerging across the board under this administration."

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A House panel is requesting additional documents from the Department of Health and Human Services related to the administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy that led to the separation of families apprehended along the southern border, after an earlier request went unfulfilled.

Rep. Diana DeGette statement on president’s State of the Union speech

February 5, 2019

Press Release

Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) released the following statement on the president's State of the Union speech this evening:

Witnesses announced for first oversight hearing on Trump’s family-separation policy

February 4, 2019

Press Release

Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), chair of the House oversight panel investigating the Trump administration's child-separation policy, today announced the full list of witnesses set to testify this week at the committee's first oversight hearing on the administration's controversial policy.

Democrats prepare for week of blockbuster hearings into Trump

February 4, 2019

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"The Republican majority was willing to give the President the benefit of the doubt, and we are not going to be waiting for it work out. If kids are going to be taken from their parents at the border, we are going to be immediately investigating it," said Rep. Diana DeGette, the chair of the Energy and Commerce subcommittee on investigations. "It says we are not afraid to exercise our Article 1 prerogative of oversight of the executive branch."

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This week the Trump administration learns what Democratic oversight looks like.

Getting Answers and Helping Families

February 1, 2019

It’s been one week since the longest government shutdown in our nation’s history ended, but its effects are still being felt. In fact, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that President Trump’s decision to shut down our government permanently cost our economy $3 billion.

Oversight panel investigating Trump’s family-separation policy to hold first hearing Feb. 7

January 31, 2019

Press Release

Washington, DC. – The chairman of the House oversight panel investigating the Trump administration's child-separation policy, U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), announced today that her committee will hold its first hearing on the administration's controversial policy one week from today.

DeGette, Pallone demand answers on rising cost of insulin

January 30, 2019

Press Release

Washington, DC – Two of the top Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee joined forces today in calling on the heads of three major U.S. pharmaceutical companies to explain the recent skyrocketing cost of insulin.

U.S. lawmakers request info from insulin makers on rising prices

January 30, 2019

In The News

Democratic Representatives Frank Pallone and Diana DeGette, the chairman and a top-ranking member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, respectively, wrote to the heads of Eli Lilly and Co, Novo Nordisk and Sanofi, the long-time leading manufacturers of insulin. The drugmakers have all raised the price of insulin at similar rates over the last several years.

Reuters

Two powerful U.S. lawmakers sent letters to the three leading insulin manufacturers on Wednesday requesting information on why its cost has skyrocketed in recent years and how much the companies profit from the life-sustaining diabetes treatment.

House Democrats file bill to halt Trump travel ban policy

January 29, 2019

Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) today joined with several of her House colleagues to introduce legislation that would block the implementation of President Donald Trump's travel ban policy.

DeGette files bill to make doping at international competitions, such as Olympics, a crime

January 29, 2019

Press Release

Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) sponsored legislation introduced today to make it a federal crime to engage in a doping scheme designed to influence the outcome of a major international athletic competition, such as the Olympics.

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