Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents a Northern Virginia district in the U.S. House and serves as the Senior House Democrat on Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, issued the following statement today: “Donald Trump and J.D. Vance were elected on promises to lower prices and end wars. Instead, they plunged the...

Today, Reps. Mark Takano (CA-39), Don Beyer (VA-8), Sean Casten (IL-6), Bill Foster (IL-11), and Jay Obernolte (CA-23) introduced the Congressional Office of Technology Improvement and Enhancement Act to restore Congress’ capacity to confront emerging issues in science and technology. For more than twenty years,...

The leaders of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), including Co-Chairs Reps. Doris Matsui, Mike Quigley, and Paul Tonko and Vice Chairs Reps. Don Beyer, Suzanne Bonamici, Sean Casten, Mike Levin, and Chellie Pingree, released the following statement in response to the Trump...

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents a Northern Virginia district in the U.S. House across the Potomac River from Washington D.C., today blasted President Trump’s announcement that he would destroy East Potomac Park to build an expensive new golf course. Beyer recently led a site tour at East Potomac with cyclists,...

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), the Senior House Democrat on Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, member of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, and a leading critic of the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia Act prior to its passage last month, issued the following statement today after President Trump waived all...

Staunch opposition to Donald Trump’s proposed vanity arch grew sharpy in early October, as veterans, residents, and workers expressed hostility to the project, and the Northern Virginia county that surrounds the site filed suit against it. On October 1st, as NPR reported: “Veterans, retirees and lawmakers spoke out...

Congressman Don Beyer (VA-08) is leading a congressional letter with co-leads Representatives April McClain Delaney, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kweisi Mfume, Suhas Subramanyam, and Sarah Elfreth urging the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to pause use of its new artificial intelligence-enabled air traffic...

Representatives Don Beyer (VA-08), Diana DeGette (CO-01), and Doris Matsui (CA-07) released the following statement after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a legal determination confirming the administration illegally impounded $78 million in Fiscal Year 2025 funding for the Agency for Healthcare...

U.S. Representatives Don Beyer (D-VA) and Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Co-Chairs of the Egypt Human Rights Caucus, today urged the Egyptian government to immediately and unconditionally release the six journalists affiliated with independent investigative journalism platform Matsadaash and end its escalating crackdown on...

Today, Representatives Don Beyer (D-Va.), Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.), and Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) and U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) along with 75 of their colleagues, called on Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Andrea Lucas to rescind their proposed rule to eliminate protections and strip federal...

Reps. Don Beyer (VA-08) and Lloyd Smucker (PA-11) announced that their bipartisan Claiming Age Clarity Act, H.R. 5284, has passed the Senate and is headed to the President’s desk for signature. The lawmakers introduced the legislation to help Americans better understand how the timing of their decision to claim...

On Thursday, Reps. Don Beyer (VA-08), Joaquin Castro (TX-20), Madeleine Dean (PA-04), Greg Casar (TX-35), Sara Jacobs (CA-51), and Veronica Escobar (TX-16) will introduce legislation to impose sanctions on individuals and entities building or expanding settlements in the West Bank and Gaza. H.R. 0953, the Stop the...

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) today blasted the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for refusing to answer questions about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents who threatened an unarmed, law-abiding U.S. citizen with a gun last month. Beyer led Democratic leaders raising questions about the incident, in which...