DeGette is recognized as a leading voice in the nation's health care debate. As the top Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Health Subcommittee, DeGette has played a leading role in overseeing the nation's health care agencies and the nation's overall response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She's also led numerous efforts to ensure the nation's environmental laws are being properly enforced, lower the cost of insulin for millions of Americans and take on the climate crisis.

DeGette is committed to taking on the climate crisis and empowering our nation's clean energy policies. She has led numerous efforts to hold the nation's oil and gas producers accountable, reduce America's overall emissions and expedite our transition to cleaner forms of renewable energy. In fact, one of the first bills President Biden signed into law after taking office was legislation DeGette authored to drastically reduce methane emissions from drilling sites across - a move climate scientists praised as critical to combatting the climate crisis.

A graduate of Denver's South High School, DeGette earned her B.A, magna cum laude, from Colorado College in 1979; and a J.D. from New York University School of Law in 1982.

Before being elected to Congress, DeGette served two terms in the Colorado Legislature, including one term as Assistant Minority Leader from 1993-1995.

DeGette is married to Lino Lipinsky. They have two daughters, a son-in-law and one new grandbaby.