Press Releases
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House Delegation Introduces Bipartisan Bill to Invest in Coal Country
Representatives Matt Cartwright (PA-08), Hal Rogers (KY-05), Glenn Thompson (PA-15), and Don Beyer (VA-08) introduced bipartisan legislation on Tuesday to revitalize coal country by giving communities the funds they need to clean up abandoned mine la...
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Beyer Hails House Passage Of Save The Internet Act
Today Rep. Beyer voted for the Save the Internet Act, legislation to restore internet protections commonly known as net neutrality following their repeal by the Trump Administration. The legislation, introduced by Rep. Mike Doyle (D-PA), passed the H...
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Rep. Beyer Votes to Reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act
Today, Rep. Beyer voted to pass H.R. 1585 a bipartisan, robust, long-term Violence Against Women Act reauthorization. The landmark Violence Against Women Act of 1994 ushered in transformative progress by calling for the protection of all Americans fr...
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Top Dems Push for Funding to Address the Climate Crisis
Today, Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) and Doris Matsui (D-CA) led 112 Democrats in a letter to the Chairs of the Budget and Appropriations Committees requesting future budget resolutions and appropriations bill...
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Beyer, Eshoo, Schiff Lead Bipartisan Group of 115 Members in Call for Funding to Energy Department’s ARPA-E Program, Clean Energy Innovation Programs
Today, Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA), Anna G. Eshoo (D-CA) and Adam Schiff (D-CA) led a bipartisan letter to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, and Related Agencies calling for strong funding for the Energy Department’s c...
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Beyer Leads House Effort To Protect Funding For Key NASA Mission
This week Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), a member of the House Science Subcommittee on Space and Aeronautics, led an appropriations request to protect funding for NASA’s Wide Field InfraRed Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission. The President’s recently-released...
Recent News
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Democrats aim fury at Attorney General Bill Barr's handling of Mueller report
CNN | In the hours after receiving the long-awaited report from special counsel Robert Mueller, some Democrats on Capitol Hill called not to impeach the President but for the removal of Attorney General William Barr. The attacks against the head of t...
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‘I’d take that bet’: Dem lawmakers strike back at Sarah Sanders for calling them too dumb to read Trump’s taxes
Raw Story | During a Fox News interview Sunday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed that elected officials are likely “not smart enough” to understand President Donald Trump’s tax returns if he released them. It prompted member...
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114 Lawmakers Push to Fund Clean Energy Research
NextGov | More than 100 lawmakers are calling on Capitol Hill appropriators to increase funding for Energy Department research programs that would be gutted under the president’s 2020 budget proposal. The group requested more than $720 million to sup...
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Democrats demand more details on proposed OPM, GSA merger
Federal News Network | Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee are demanding more details from the Trump administration about its proposed reorganization of the Office of Personnel Management, after multiple requests for information hav...