U.S. Representatives Don Beyer, Jennifer McClellan, Suhas Subramanyam, Eugene Vindman, and James Walkinshaw, Democrats from Virginia, today urged the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC) to reject the proposed acquisition of Dominion Energy by Florida-based NextEra. In a letter submitted ahead of the SCC’s November 12 public comment deadline, the Members warned that the merger, as currently... Read More »
Today, Don Beyer (D-Va.), House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), and Representatives Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.), and Senators Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) led 37 other Democratic lawmakers in demanding answers from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick on the Trump administration’s attempts to gut core Endan... Read More »
Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) issued the following statement today after Donald Trump named Stephen Miller as his new White House Chief of Staff: “Trump’s elevation of Stephen Miller doubles down on the politics of hatred, lawlessness, and failure that the American people soundly rejected three days ago. “Stephen Miller is the architect of Trump’s immigration policies that plunged quiet American co... Read More »
Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents a Northern Virginia district in the U.S. House that includes Arlington National Cemetery and Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA), testified before the National Capital Planning Commission (NCPC) today, urging the Commission to reject the Trump Administration’s proposed 250-foot arch on Columbia Island. The 12-member Commission, which oversees federal c... Read More »
Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents a Northern Virginia district in the U.S. House that includes Arlington National Cemetery and Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA), hailed Judge Chutkan’s injunction barring the Trump Administration from commencing construction on Trump’s vanity arch for 14 days. The judicial order came after Trump’s handpicked commission members voted to approve the pro... Read More »
Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents a Northern Virginia district in the U.S. House and serves as the Senior House Democrat on Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, issued the following statement today: “Donald Trump and J.D. Vance were elected on promises to lower prices and end wars. Instead, they plunged the country into an endless nightmare of inflation, corruption, and illegal military aggress... Read More »
Today, Reps. Mark Takano (CA-39), Don Beyer (VA-8), Sean Casten (IL-6), Bill Foster (IL-11), and Jay Obernolte (CA-23) introduced the Congressional Office of Technology Improvement and Enhancement Act to restore Congress’ capacity to confront emerging issues in science and technology. For more than twenty years, Congress had the Office of Technology Assessment, an independent, bipartisan agency se... Read More »
The leaders of the House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC), including Co-Chairs Reps. Doris Matsui, Mike Quigley, and Paul Tonko and Vice Chairs Reps. Don Beyer, Suzanne Bonamici, Sean Casten, Mike Levin, and Chellie Pingree, released the following statement in response to the Trump Administration’s proposal to roll back the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2024 Methane Ru... Read More »
Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents a Northern Virginia district in the U.S. House across the Potomac River from Washington D.C., today blasted President Trump’s announcement that he would destroy East Potomac Park to build an expensive new golf course. Beyer recently led a site tour at East Potomac with cyclists, runners, and other local residents to raise awareness of the Trump Administration’... Read More »
Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), the Senior House Democrat on Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, member of the House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, and a leading critic of the Lindsey Graham Sanctioning Russia Act prior to its passage last month, issued the following statement today after President Trump waived all sanctions on Russia under the law: “President Trump just waived all of the sanctions ... Read More »
Staunch opposition to Donald Trump’s proposed vanity arch grew sharpy in early October, as veterans, residents, and workers expressed hostility to the project, and the Northern Virginia county that surrounds the site filed suit against it. On October 1st, as NPR reported: “Veterans, retirees and lawmakers spoke out — against its scale, its cost, its lack of Congressional approval, its gaudiness, i... Read More »
Congressman Don Beyer (VA-08) is leading a congressional letter with co-leads Representatives April McClain Delaney, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kweisi Mfume, Suhas Subramanyam, and Sarah Elfreth urging the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to pause use of its new artificial intelligence-enabled air traffic management tool until the agency answers questions about safety testing, implementation, ... Read More »
Representatives Don Beyer (VA-08), Diana DeGette (CO-01), and Doris Matsui (CA-07) released the following statement after the Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued a legal determination confirming the administration illegally impounded $78 million in Fiscal Year 2025 funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). The decision comes more than a year after Reps. Beyer, De... Read More »
U.S. Representatives Don Beyer (D-VA) and Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Co-Chairs of the Egypt Human Rights Caucus, today urged the Egyptian government to immediately and unconditionally release the six journalists affiliated with independent investigative journalism platform Matsadaash and end its escalating crackdown on independent media: “As co-chairs of the Egypt Human Rights Caucus, we call on Egypti... Read More »
Today, Representatives Don Beyer (D-Va.), Kweisi Mfume (D-Md.), and Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) and U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) along with 75 of their colleagues, called on Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Chair Andrea Lucas to rescind their proposed rule to eliminate protections and strip federal employees of critical civil rights in discrimination complaints. While the lawmake... Read More »
