Press Releases
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House Delegation Introduces Freedom Of Religion Act In Challenge To President Trump’s Muslim Bans
Today 124 Members of the House of Representatives led by Reps. Don Beyer (VA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Andre Carson (D-IN), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton ...
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Reps. Olson, Beyer & Perlmutter Act To Help Federal Employees Hurt By The Partial Government Shutdown
Rep. Pete Olson (TX-22), Rep. Don Beyer (VA-08) and Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) today acted to provide relief to federal employees affected by the partial government shutdown by introducing H.R. 545, the Financial Relief for Feds Act. This bill will a...
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House Passes Senate Companion To Beyer Legislation To Guarantee Back Pay For Federal Employees Affected By Shutdown
Today the House of Representatives passed the Senate companion version of legislation offered by Rep. Don Beyer to guarantee back pay to federal employees affected by the partial government shutdown. The House approved the bill with near-unanimous su...
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Beyer Appointed To Serve On House Committee On Ways And Means
Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) announced today that he has received an appointment to the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, one of the five exclusive House committees. Ways and Means has a wide breadth of jurisdiction, including health care, trade poli...
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Norton Reintroduces Bill to Grant Back Pay to Low-Wage Federal Contract Workers
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today reintroduced her bill to guarantee back pay to low-wage federally contracted retail, food, custodial and security service workers not getting paid during the current federal government shutdown (fiscal...
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Beyer Legislation To Give Federal Employees Affected By Government Shutdown Back Pay Passes House
Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) today hailed House passage of the legislative text of his bill to give back pay to federal employees in agencies affected by the partial government shutdown, which was included in a larger appropriations package that passed the ...
Recent News
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Clamor growing for Trump tax returns as key House Democrat urges caution
ABC News | Democrats have for months fired up supporters with the promise that control of the House of Representatives would finally allow them to seize copies of President Donald Trump's tax returns. They have argued the filings could produce a road...
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Bipartisan bill would give government workers access to retirement funds amid shutdown
The Hill | A small, bipartisan group of House members on Tuesday introduced a bill that would allow federal workers affected by the partial government shutdown to withdraw funds from their retirement accounts without penalty. If passed, the bill woul...
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Federal employees rally, demand end to shutdown holding pay ‘hostage’
Federal News Network | As furloughed and excepted federal employees working without pay are set to miss their first scheduled paycheck of 2019 this Friday, hundreds showed up on a cold and windy Thursday to demand an end to the partial government shu...
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Despite shutdown, Trump administration gives relief to powerful mortgage industry after lobbying push
New York Daily News | The government can’t reopen itself — but it can apparently accommodate deep-pocketed lobbyists. The Treasury Department reinstated an Internal Revenue Service program essential to the mortgage industry this week after the powerf...