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Congressional AI Caucus Democrats’ Statement on President Trump’s AI Action Plan and AI Executive Orders

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Congressional Artificial Intelligence (AI) Caucus Chair Don Beyer (D-VA), Vice Chair Doris Matsui (D-CA), and Democratic Members of the Caucus Reps. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR), Valerie Foushee (D-NC), Hank Johnson (D-GA), Sarah McBride (D-DE), Jim McGovern (D-MA), and Rob Menendez (D-NJ) today issued the following statement on the Trump Administration’s AI Action Plan and executive orders on AI: “We ...

House Delegation Reintroduces Fair Representation Act to Reform Congressional Elections

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U.S. Representatives Don Beyer (D-VA) and Jamie Raskin (D-MD) today led a House delegation in reintroducing the Fair Representation Act, an election reform bill to address structural gerrymandering issues and extreme partisanship in federal elections. The bill would implement measures to elect U.S. House Representatives through ranked choice voting in multi-member districts drawn by independent re...

Virginia The Only State In America Where The Unemployment Rate Rose In June, Per U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

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The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) today reported that the unemployment rate in Virginia rose again in June, to 3.5 percent. The BLS report notes that “Virginia had the only rate increase” in the month of June. This was the sixth consecutive increase in Virginia’s unemployment rate, the first time the Commonwealth’s unemployment has continuously risen over half a year since the Great Reces...

Congressional Delegation Demands USPS Refocus on Drug Interdiction, Protection of Children, Theft Prevention, and Other Core Duties

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U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) today led 26 U.S. Representatives in pressing the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) to immediately withdraw Postal Inspectors from the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) immigration task force. They warned that diverting USPS resources to DHS priorities jeopardizes USPS’ abilities to fulfill its essential responsibilities, including interdicting dangerous drugs, ...

Wyden, Bennet, Beyer Reintroduce Bicameral Bill to Overhaul Unemployment Insurance

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Senate Finance Committee Ranking Member Ron Wyden, D-Ore., Senator Michael F. Bennet, D-Colo., and U.S. Representative Don Beyer, D-Va., today reintroduced legislation to update and expand unemployment insurance so the program better meets the needs of the modern workforce and is ready to respond should the economy go into a recession in the future. “There’s no question that our unemployment insur...

74 U.S. Representatives Warn Trump Administration To Halt Potentially Illegal Mass Firings Of Federal Workers

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Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) today led 74 U.S. Representatives in pressing the Trump Administration to halt plans to conduct further mass firings of federal workers amid reports that the White House intends to proceed with gutting federal agencies and conducting mass purges of civil servants, including at the State Department, following a recent Supreme Court order. They wrote to Office of Managem...

Beyer Floor Remarks Opposing H.R. 1

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Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) this morning delivered the following remarkson H.R. 1, aka the One Big Ugly Bill Act, during debate on the measure: “From the Gospel of Matthew: For I was hungry, and you gave me food. I was thirsty, and you gave me drink. I was a stranger, and you took me in. I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you visited me. I was in prison, and you came unto me. Inasmu...

Congressional Delegation Requests Documents and Demands Answers on Detention of Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri

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U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) and 21 additional Members of Congress demanded relevant documentation and information related to the arrest and detention of Georgetown postdoctoral fellow Dr. Badar Khan Suri. In a letter addressed to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, lawmakers sought urgent clarification regarding the justification for Dr. Khan Sur...

Warner, Kaine, Beyer Push for Answers Regarding Trump Admin Plans to Displace National Science Foundation in Alexandria

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U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA) and U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) today demanded answers from the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) after the Trump administration announced that it plans to displace the National Science Foundation (NSF) – located in Alexandria – in order to relocate the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which is currently located in Washi...

Beyer Statement on Proposed Plans to Relocate HUD and NSF Headquarters

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Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) today issued the following statement after Department of Housing & Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Scott Turner, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin, and Commissioner of the General Services Administration (GSA) Public Buildings Service Michael Peters announced plans to relocate the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) out of the Robert C. Weaver Federal Bu...

Beyer Statement On Fifth Straight Increase In Virginia’s Unemployment Rate

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Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), who serves as the top House Democrat on the Congressional Joint Economic Committee, today expressed rising concern over Virginia’s economy, after monthly data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) showed that the Commonwealth’s unemployment rate had risen for the fifth consecutive month. The increase brought Virginia’s unemployment rate to 3.4 percent, its highest...

What They Are Saying About Trump & Republicans’ Tax Giveaway To The Wealthy

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Yesterday Senate Republicans unveiled their version of legislation to extend and expand the Trump tax cuts for the wealthy. While scores for their altered bill are still forthcoming, the changes from the House-passed version are unlikely to significantly alter that bill’s distributional effects, which would result in the largest transfer of wealth from working people to the rich from a single law ...

Yale Budget Lab Finds Bottom 80% Of U.S. Households Lose Under Trump/Republican Agenda

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Last week during a hearing by the House Committee on Ways and Means, Secretary of Treasury Scott Bessent responded to questioning about deficit effects of H.R. 1 by Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) by suggesting that the bill would be fully offset through revenue raised by tariffs imposed on other countries by President Trump [as Beyer pointed out, this claim did not account for interest on debt accrued by t...

Beyer Statement On Assault On Senator Padilla

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Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) issued the following statement today after U.S. Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) was assaulted while attempting to ask Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem a question during a press conference in Los Angeles: “This is another disgraceful episode in a long train of abuses from a thuggish administration that has repeatedly incited and encouraged violence. What happened ...

Merkley, Murphy, Gomez, Beyer: Let Every American Choose Medicare

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Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, Connecticut’s U.S. Senator Christopher Murphy, and U.S. Representatives Jimmy Gomez (D-CA-34) and Donald Beyer (D-VA-08) today reintroduced the Choose Medicare Act. This revolutionary proposal opens Medicare to all Americans with a new ‘Part E’ and builds on the system we have today by allowing Medicare to compete with private health insurance. “In the richest c...