From Wapo:

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee are chastising Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) for rebuffing their efforts to investigate price hikes by two pharmaceutical companies.

"My constituents are dying," Ranking Member Elijah E. Cummings (D-Md.) said at a news conference Wednesday morning. "They are dying because they cannot get a cure."

In a letter to Chaffetz, he and other members said Republicans have "refused every request" to hold hearings or issue subpoenas to drug companies. They ask Republicans to allow them to move forward next month: "Even if you have no interest in investigating these abuses on behalf of your own constituents, we ask that you not block us from investigating them on behalf of ours."

Cummings has been working on this issue since 2011, when the head coach of the University of Maryland women's basketball team wrote to him about a shortage of the drug her son needed to treat his cancer. The shortage was related to profit concerns.

Democrats acknowledged Wednesday that without Republican support, they cannot move legislation in Congress. But, they said, they could prod the other party, as well as the White House and pharmaceutical companies, themselves.