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The House Appropriations Committee announced that they will be accepting Community Project Funding (CPF) requests from Members for Fiscal Year 2024. Each Member is limited to no more than 15 Community Project Funding requests across all subcommittees and there is no guarantee that all requested projects will be funded. Submissions for Community Project Funding requests were due by Monday, March 20, 2023. Please note: Congressman Beyer could NOT accept CPF requests for projects outside of VA-08. All projects must meet the relevant statutory and administrative criteria for funding through the gr... Read More »

My district office has moved to a new location! As of today, the office housing my constituent services team is located at: 1901 N. Fort Myer Drive, Suite 900 Arlington, VA, 22209 Constituents who require assistance may begin requests here, or call the district office at (703) 658-5403. Read More »

In recent weeks I’ve heard from a huge number of Northern Virginians in letters, calls, and at community events about the urgent need to address gun violence. Like you, I am horrified by recent mass shootings that have claimed so many innocent lives. These tragedies, including the killing of 19 children and 2 teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, TX, the killing of 10 people at a grocery story in Buffalo, NY, and the killing of two doctors, a receptionist, and a patient at a hospital in Tulsa, OK, are just the latest in a uniquely American trend of ever-increasing mass shootings. All t... Read More »

Many constituents have called my office asking about my positions on gun safety legislation following recent mass shootings. Here are answers to some of these questions, for more please see here and here. Do you support universal background checks? — Yes. I voted for HR 8 and HR 1446. Do you support red flag laws? — Yes, I co-lead the Extreme Risk Protection Order Act. Do you support banning assault weapons and high capacity magazines? — Yes. I cosponsor the Assault Weapons Ban. Do you support ending gun manufacturers’ legal immunity? — Yes. I cosponsor a bill to repeal PLCAA. Do you support b... Read More »

2022 Awardees 1st Place Hope and Peace by William Zhang (Thomas Jefferson HSST '24) Medium: Digital Art 2nd Place Ember by Mason Taylor (Wakefield HS '22) Medium: Oil and Acrylic Paint 3rd Place Soul Searching by Emma Chen (McLean HS '24) Medium: Charcoal Honorable Mentions Brother and Sister at the Wharf by Anne McElhaney (H-B Woodlawn Secondary Program '22) Medium: Photography Self by Aliya Lu (McLean HS '23) Medium: Colored Pencil, Acrylic Paint, and Watercolor That Lonesome Feeling by Jhenifer Vargas-Antezana (Wakefield HS '22) Medium: Acrylic Paint Stillness by Lauren Minor (St. Stephens ... Read More »

Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro announced that the House Committee on Appropriations will be accepting Community Project Funding (CPF) requests from Members. Each Member is limited to no more than 15 Community Project Funding requests across all subcommittees for Fiscal Year 2023 and there is no guarantee that all requested projects will be funded. Please note: Congressman Beyer will NOT accept CPF requests for projects outside of VA-8. All projects must meet the relevant statutory and administrative criteria for funding through the grant program under which it is submitted. A request submitted to Con... Read More »

2021 Awardees 1st Place Shadows of Democracy by Charlie Williams (Wakefield HS '21) Medium: Digital Photography 2nd Place Self-Portrait 2020 by Morgan Andrews (Washington Liberty HS '22) Medium: Pencil 3rd Place Girl in Print by Naomi Lewis (George Mason HS '24) Medium: Ink/Typewriter Honorable Mentions Above the Mantel by Renee Whiffen (Wakefield HS '21) Medium: Pencil Ba Noi by Jenny Le (Falls Church HS '21) Medium: Photography Blame Game by Ella Park (McLean HS '22) Medium: Charcoal Blood Moon by Carmina Lopez (Wakefield HS '21) Medium: Oil Paint Escape by Luiza Nedelescu (McLean HS '23) Me... Read More »

Chairwoman Rosa DeLauro announced that the House Committee on Appropriations will be accepting Community Project Funding (CPF) requests from Members. This is in addition to the standard programmatic and language-based requests. Each Member is limited to no more than 10 Community Project Funding requests across all subcommittees for Fiscal Year 2022 and there is no guarantee that all requested projects will be funded. The FY2022 CPF process has a limited scope with combined earmarks capped at 1% of all discretionary spending and eligible accounts restricted to those listed in the table below. P... Read More »

The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (T&I) plans to advance surface transportation authorization legislation later this spring, building on H.R. 2, the Moving Forward Act, from the 116th Congress. Chairman Peter DeFazio announced that the T&I Committee will formally accept requests for projects from House Members. The T&I Committee process for considering member projects is separate and distinct from the House Committee on Appropriations’ process for considering Community Project Funding requests. Projects funded through the surface transportation authorization will be fund... Read More »

What the Department of Commerce Can Do For Your Startup Congressman Don Beyer, U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Bruce Andrews, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development Matt S. Erskine, visited 1776 this afternoon for a roundtable and walkthrough at the incubator and venture fund’s recently opened Crystal City location. Beyer, Deputy Secretary Andrews, and Deputy Assistant Secretary Erskine engaged with small business and tech leaders to highlight federal resources available to startups and the business community; from offering grants, facilitating the patent process... Read More »