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Originally published in: The Washington Post A planned $6 billion merger between President Donald Trump’s social media and cryptocurrency company and a fusion power firm may give a boost to efforts to innovate a new form of electricity but raises thorny questions about what the energy company has to gain, economists and ethics experts said. The companies say the merger is… Read more »

Originally published in: ARLnow A proposed exception to restrictions on military flights around Reagan National Airport is prompting outcry among some federal officials. U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D) and five other members of Congress representing Virginia joined the chair of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), as well as D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser, in crying foul yesterday… Read more »

Originally published in: Axios House members in both parties are groaning about what they say is the out of control use of censure as a partisan tool — with one member even floating a proposal to raise the threshold for censuring his colleagues. Why it matters: Censure was once the gravest rebuke the House could give to its members short of expulsion, but its use has… Read more »

Originally published in: The New York Times When Jill Hornick woke up on Monday morning, her first thought was that her timecard would be submitted that day for her job with the Social Security Administration in Chicago. But this Monday was different. The federal government was locked in a shutdown, and she received a paycheck for $0. “This is the only income I have,” she said. “And I… Read more »

Originally published in: WJLA 7 U.S. Sen. Mark Warner (D - Va.) and U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D - Va.) held a roundtable with local and national aviation experts Friday to discuss aviation safety and safety at Reagan National Airport (DCA) following January's deadly mid-air collision. “The challenges that we all know is that air traffic in the greater Washington area is… Read more »

Originally published in: DC News Now Local officials said they would introduce a bill requiring federal law enforcement to use body-worn and dashboard cameras when Congress returns in September. This comes after Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-D.C.) and Don Beyer (D-Va.) say officers have been using excessive force to make arrests as part of President Donald Trump’s “unnecessary and… Read more »

Originally published in: ARLnow Arlington’s congressman is quarreling with the Department of Homeland Security following a visit to one of Virginia’s immigration detention centers. The federal department publicly criticized U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D) in a press release after he visited Farmville Detention Center on Friday. It accused him of prioritizing detainees with criminal… Read more »

Originally published in: ARLnow A new bill with the backing of U.S. Rep. Don Beyer is seeking to redraw congressional lines to combat gerrymandering and improve representation. The measure, called the Fair Representation Act, was introduced by Beyer and Maryland Democrat Jamie Raskin on July 23. It would involve creating larger congressional districts with multiple representatives,… Read more »

Originally published in: Alexandria Living Magazine The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Friday reported that the unemployment rate in Virginia rose again in June, to 3.5 percent. The BLS report notes that “Virginia had the only rate increase” in the month of June. This was the sixth consecutive increase in Virginia’s unemployment rate, the first time the Commonwealth’s… Read more »

Originally published in: Science Democrats in the Republican-controlled Congress may lack the political clout to reverse the billions of dollars in federal research grants canceled by President Donald Trump’s administration since he took office in January. But they can at least shine a light on what that loss could mean to the country—and make the case for why Trump’s proposed budget… Read more »