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January 18, 2019

A House panel sent a letter Friday to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar requesting he turn over documents related to the administration's "zero-tolerance" policy that led to the separation of families apprehended along the southern border.

January 18, 2019

Washington, DC The top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce's Oversight and Investigations panel wasted no time in demanding that Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar turn over to the committee's investigators a series of internal documents detailing the agency's role in carrying out the Trump administration's policy of separating families at the border.

January 17, 2019

Washington, DCThree of the top Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which oversees the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, joined forces today to shed light on the ongoing Ebola outbreak in Africa and called on federal health officials to immediately provide members of Congress a full briefing on what's being done to contain the spread of the deadly virus.

January 17, 2019

U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, a Denver Democrat, is at the helm of one of Congress' most powerful investigations panels after her party's stunning November victories — a role that means she wields subpoena powers.

January 15, 2019

Count Denver's U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette among the congressional Democrats who are ready to investigate President Donald Trump's administration.

January 15, 2019

U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Denver) has been named to the chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's panel on Oversight and Investigations, according to a news release from the congresswoman's office.

January 15, 2019

House Democrats on Tuesday vowed to repeal a ban on the use of federal funds for abortions.

While a repeal of the long-standing ban is unlikely with Republican control of the Senate, the move indicates the direction Democrats want to go should they gain control of the upper chamber in 2020.

January 15, 2019

Colorado's congressional Democrats said at a Monday morning news conference at Denver International Airport that President Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell were holding government workers "hostage" while the president throws "temper tantrums" over a border wall that has ever-shifting funding sources and while the longest-ever government shutdown continues.=

January 15, 2019

Washington, DC U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) was named the Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's powerful and far-reaching Oversight and Investigations panel today.