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Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) released the following statement today on the agreement to temporarily reopen the government:
Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) today was appointed to serve as a member of the House Natural Resources Committee.
The move gives the Colorado Democrat even more sway to influence future environmental policy as it comes just one week after she was named the Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's powerful and far-reaching Oversight and Investigations panel, which has direct oversight authority over the Environmental Protection Agency.
Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), the Chair of the House panel currently investigating the Trump administration's child-separation policy, released the following statement today calling the Senate's proposal to prevent Central American children from applying for asylum at the border "more inhumane and un-American than Trump's disastrous zero-tolerance policy itself":
The Senate is poised as early as Tuesday to act on a Trump-backed measure to end the partial government shutdown, but a bill promoted as a compromise to pair the president's wall with legal protections for some immigrants would also severely restrict migrants' ability to claim asylum, drawing fierce opposition from immigrant rights groups.
Colorado Democrat gains direct oversight of HHS, EPA, other major federal agencies
U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette, D-Denver, was named chair of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's Oversight and Investigations panel.
The move Jan. 15 move gives the Colorado Democrat considerable sway to influence future policy decisions related to health care and the environment as her party once again takes control of the U.S. House of Representatives.
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.
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.
Washington, DC – Three 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.
Washington, DC – U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), the Chair of the Energy and Commerce Committee's Oversight and Investigations panel, released the following statement today on the Department of Health and Human Services inspector general's newly-released report that found the Trump administration may have separated thousands more undocumented children at the border than previously reported: