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ICYMI: Beyer, 26 Democratic Colleagues Demand Accountability on Overdue Human Trafficking Report Amid Staffing Purge of Anti-Trafficking Office

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On Wednesday, September 10, Representative Don Beyer led 26 of his colleagues in demanding that Secretary of State Marco Rubio release the congressionally mandated 2025 Trafficking in Persons Report, which was due to Congress on June 30 and is critical to combatting the scourge of human trafficking. The report comes from the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (J/TIP), which recent...

Beyer Shares Invitation to Constituent Services Event Providing Financial Guidance for Former and Current Federal Workers

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Congressman Don Beyer, who represents a Northern Virginia district with one of the highest concentrations of federal employees in the country, today shared an invitation to a constituent services event to be held on Saturday, September 20 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The event will offer practical financial guidance tailored for current and former federal workers. Held in partnership with Falls Chu...

Beyer, Kelly Introduce Legislation toFacilitate Peer-To-Peer Mental Health Support

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Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA) and Mike Kelly (R-PA) today announced the introduction of the Peer-to-Peer Mental Health Support Act to help facilitate effective student-led mental health crisis response. “Too many young Americans are struggling with their mental health and suffer in silence. We can do more in Congress to support teenage mental health, including by facilitating student-led peer-to-peer edu...

Warner, Kaine, Scott, Beyer, McClellan, Vindman, Subramanyam & Walkinshaw Issue Statement Condemning Political Violence

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Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) and U.S. Representatives Bobby Scott (D-VA-03), Don Beyer (D-VA-08), Jennifer McClellan (D-VA-04), Eugene Vindman (D-VA-07), Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA-10), and James Walkinshaw (D-VA-11) released the following statement: “The rise in political violence—which has inflicted tragedy upon the families of Republican activist Charlie Kirk and M...

Trump, Republicans Shut Down Virginia Rural Health Clinics

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Augusta Medical Group announced days ago that it would permanently close three health clinics in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. The clinics were located in Buena Vista, Churchville, and Weyers Cave, all in the rural I-81 corridor that runs through the western part of the Commonwealth. Augusta’s announcement of the closures said they were “part of Augusta Health’s ongoing response to the One Big Bea...

The Trump Administration’s Shockingly Dishonest, Out-Of-Touch Response To Terrible Jobs Report

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Friday morning the Bureau of Labor Statistics issued the August jobs report, which found that employment in the United States “has shown little change since April.” The U.S. economy has averaged just 27,000 jobs added per month over the past four months, a sharp drop from previous years, amid a clear and dramatic slowdown caused by President Trump’s chaotic and destructive tariff regime. The econo...

So Much For The “Golden Age” – Economic Data Confirms Trump Policies Betray American Working Families

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Today the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) issued its August jobs report, which was full of woeful news for the U.S. economy. The report found that the unemployment rate rose to 4.3 percent, the highest it has been since the pandemic, and the economy only added a scant 22,000 jobs. With all data in for June, the final jobs figure for that month with revisions shows that the economy actually l...

On 100th Anniversary of Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s Founding, Beyer, Lawler, Kaine, and Tillis Introduce Bipartisan Legislation to Protect National Trails Across the U.S.

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Today, U.S. Representatives Don Beyer (D-VA-08) and Mike Lawler (R-NY-17) and U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced the bipartisan, bicameral Appalachian Trail Centennial Act, legislation to strengthen the public-private partnerships that preserve, maintain, and manage national trails. This legislation—inspired by the National Trails System Act of 1968, which has led to ...

Beyer: Trump Must Fire Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), who serves on the House Committee on Ways and Means, which has jurisdiction over health care, issued the following statement today after Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s attacks on vaccine science and public health prompted the attempted firing of Centers for Disease Control (CDC) Director Susan Monarez and the departures of other k...

Beyer Blasts Trump’s Refusal To Enforce D.C. Gun Laws

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Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) today issued the following statement after U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, a Fox News host recently appointed by President Trump to serve as the top federal prosecutor for Washington D.C., announced that she would not enforce gun laws which make carrying rifles or shotguns in the nation’s capital a felony: “What better evidence could you ask f...

2025 Congressional App Challenge

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In 2013, leaders in the U.S. House of Representatives and at the Internet Education Foundation sought to foster an appreciation for computer science and STEM. That year House leadership overwhelmingly passed H.Res. 77, Academic Competition Resolution of 2013, which outlined the plans for Representatives to host yearly district-by-district computer science (or “app”) competitions for middle school ...

Norton, Beyer to Introduce Bill to Require Federal Police Officers Use Body and Dashboard Cameras When Congress Returns in September

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After videos circulated online of federal police officers using excessive force to make arrests as part of President Trump’s unnecessary and inflammatory surge of law enforcement in D.C., Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) and Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) announced that they’ll reintroduce their bill to require all federal police officers, including those from Immigration & Customs Enforce...

Virginia Unemployment Rate Rises For Seventh Consecutive Month

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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today reported that the unemployment rate in Virginia rose again in July, to 3.6 percent, the seventh consecutive increase in the Commonwealth’s unemployment rate. Virginia’s 0.8 percent year-over-year unemployment rate increase is now the second fastest in the nation during that period, tied with Oregon and trailing only Mississippi. In the past 50 years,...

Beyer Applauds Northern Virginia Schools’ Response To Department Of Education

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Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents a district in the U.S. that includes the jurisdictions of Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax County, and Falls Church, today issued the following statement on Northern Virginia school districts’ response to the Trump Administration demands sent via the Department of Education regarding the treatment of transgender students: “I am proud that local education ...

Beyer, Carson, Chu Introduce Legislation to Expand Student Debt Relief for Fulbright Teachers

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Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA), André Carson (D-IN), and Judy Chu (D-CA) today introduced the Fulbright Teacher's Loan Forgiveness Act, legislation to expand student debt relief qualification under the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program for participants in the Fulbright Teacher Exchange and Teaching Assistant programs. “Participants in the Fulbright Teacher Exchange and Teaching Assistant prog...