Diana DeGette

It is a smoke-and-mirror system where we are continually increasing the list price of insulin.

I resent that very much, because then everybody else is still paying those very, very high prices.

I totally agree, isn't that a good thing that now people may be able to take one vial and not have to shoot up all the time because, you know, and the delivery system.

I have a strong transparency bill that is going to hold you guys accountable and make you notify how you justify raising those prices.

I think we need more transparency and I do not buy the argument that the patient is going to be worse off.

It is important that we collectively find a permanent solution that improves access to and affordability of medicines, such as insulin.

Insulin is unequivocally a lifesaving drug, but because of a convoluted system, it has become more and more expensive.

As the cochair of the Congressional Diabetes Caucus, this issue is personal with me.

Drug makers make excuses for why prices have gone up. They say it's the fault of PBMs, or wholesalers, or the high deductible insurance plans, but the bottom line is that drug prices are set by drug makers.

I think this is a good example of the problem that the Members of Congress are dealing with.

It is simply unacceptable that anyone in this country cannot access the very drug that their lives depend on all because of the price of insulin has gotten out of control.

Our former colleague and now Governor Jared Polis has announced that he is not going to seek an exemption for that

I oppose any oil and gas development on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Coastal Plain and strongly recommend that Congress pass H.R. 1146.

It is unjust and unfair that we constantly have to advocate for our worth in relation to a caribou herd.

Herd size is not dependent on politics, but rather where they are at in their natural cycle.

The size of the caribou herds has increased under Obama administration protections, the lands have been managed as wilderness because of concerns over caribou herds.

We are experiencing longer ice-free seasons, melting permafrost, and more coastal erosion, among other things.

Congresswoman Degette clarified this best with the evidence she submitted to the hearing record of Nation-wide meetings hosted by Defenders of Wildlife and The Wilderness Society.

You must repeal the portion of the 2017 Tax Law that allowed for drilling in America's truly Last Frontier.

There was not one person who testified that wanted to open such a special place.

I think it is important to see a place when you are talking about legislating about that place.

From 2008 until 2016 under the Obama administration that area was managed as a wilderness area.

You consume. The average American consumes. And yet you ask us to bear the burden of mitigation so that you don't have to.

Oil and gas activities on the Coastal Plain is a direct attack on our ways of life and to our human rights.

Protection of the birthing and nursery grounds on the Coastal Plain is a human rights issue for the Gwich'in Nation.