Virginia’s Democratic Representatives in the U.S. House, Don Beyer (VA-08), Bobby Scott (VA-03), Jennifer McClellan (VA-04), Suhas Subramanyam (VA-10), Eugene Vindman (VA-07), and James Walkinshaw (VA-11) today urged the Director of Virginia Health Benefit Exchange to extend Virginia’s Open Enrollment period through May 1, 2026. With the expiration of enhanced advance premium tax credits (APTC) th... Read More »
Last night, amid a dishonest rant misleading his audience about the cost of a shrunken promotional Thanksgiving meal basket at Wal-Mart, President Trump angrily complained: “I don’t want to hear about the affordability.” The morning after Trump’s diatribe, new economic data showed that consumer sentiment in the United States has fallen to one of the lowest levels ever recorded. The drop in consume... Read More »
Amid President Trump’s ongoing temper tantrum over affordability, his Administration also quietly made it more inconvenient and expensive for the American people to file their tax returns. On Tuesday night, as much of the political world turned its attention to results from Election Day, the Treasury Department officially ended the IRS Direct File program, which many Americans used to easily file ... Read More »
U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-Va.) were joined by 10 of their colleagues in urging PJM Interconnection, LLC (PJM), the grid operator responsible for coordinating electricity transmission in the region, to take steps to protect the reliable supply of electricity and prevent skyrocketing costs for consumers amid rapid growth in data center energy demand.... Read More »
Following their September oversight visit of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office in Chantilly, Virginia, Representative James R. Walkinshaw (VA-11), Senator Mark R. Warner (D-VA), Representative Don S. Beyer, Jr. (VA-08), and Representative Suhas Subramanyam (VA-10) called on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to reverse its decision to furlough the civil servants res... Read More »
Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) today issued the following statement on the results of yesterday’s general elections in Virginia: “It is hard to overstate the magnitude of Governor-elect Abigail Spanberger’s victory yesterday. She won by the largest margin of any Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Virginia since the parties realigned during integration, with broad support that overcame differences... Read More »
U.S. Representatives Don Beyer (D-VA), Mike Lawler (R-NY), and Chellie Pingree (D-ME) today introduced the Innovative Practices for Soil Health Act, bipartisan legislation to improve soil health on farms and support sustainable alternatives to annual agriculture. The legislation would ensure United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) conservation programs are better able to support farmers w... Read More »
Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) has been working hard to support federal workers, contractors, and constituents affected by the ongoing government shutdown. These headlines tell the story: ALXnow: Beyer Shares Resources For Federal Workers Affected By Government Shutdown WUSA9: Virginia Congressman Proposes Bill To Help Furloughed Employees Government Executive: House Dems Urge Utilities To Keep Ligh... Read More »
As new data centers are being built across the U.S. to support the expansion of AI, a group of 20 federal lawmakers led by Rep. Kevin Mullin (CA-15), a member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, are raising concerns about how increasing demands on the electrical grid could impact household energy bills. In letters to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Edison Electric Institute, and ... Read More »
Today, Rep. Don Beyer joined Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture, Congresswoman Jahana Hayes (CT-05), House Committee on Agriculture Ranking Member Angie Craig (MN-02), and 212 House Democrats in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, to urge the agency to use contingency reserve dollars to fund the Supplemental Nutrition As... Read More »
Today, U.S. Senators Chris Van Hollen and Angela Alsobrooks (both D-Md.) and U.S. Representatives Don Beyer and James Walkinshaw (both D-Va.) were joined by more than 60 of their colleagues in the Senate and House urging the Trump Administration to immediately reinstate any furloughed employees of agencies funded entirely by collected user fees and to resume their paychecks. In their letter to Off... Read More »
Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) today led 53 U.S. Representatives urging major utility companies to suspend late penalties and utility shutoffs for federal employees and contractors amid the federal government shutdown. They wrote: “In light of the ongoing federal government shutdown, we write to urge you to suspend all utility shutoffs and late payment penalties for federal workers or federal contra... Read More »
Today, U.S. Senators Tim Kaine (D-VA), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), and Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and U.S. Representatives Don Beyer (D-VA-08) and Steny Hoyer (D-MD-05) led their colleagues in sending a bipartisan letter to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought urging OMB to follow the law—which President Donald Trump signed in 2019—... Read More »
Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) today led 21 U.S. Representatives representing districts within the PJM Interconnection service territory, the largest power grid operator in the United States, to demand that PJM take key steps to address skyrocketing energy bills for American households. The Members stressed that PJM must use current information and technologies, particularly on batteries and Alterna... Read More »
Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents a Northern Virginia congressional district with one of the largest concentrations of federal workers in the U.S. House, issued the following statement today on illegal, unnecessary mass firings of federal workers announced by the Trump Administration and Director of the United States Office of Management and Budget Russ Vought: “The mass firings Russ Vo... Read More »
