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Raw Story |  During a Fox News interview Sunday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed that elected officials are likely “not smart enough” to understand President Donald Trump’s tax returns if he released them. It prompted members of Congress to strike back with a bet of their own. ... Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) agreed, noting that Sanders can hurl… Read more »

NextGov |  More than 100 lawmakers are calling on Capitol Hill appropriators to increase funding for Energy Department research programs that would be gutted under the president’s 2020 budget proposal. The group requested more than $720 million to support a trio of research initiatives focused on advancing clean energy technology in fiscal 2020, specifically: $500 million… Read more »

Federal News Network |  Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee are demanding more details from the Trump administration about its proposed reorganization of the Office of Personnel Management, after multiple requests for information have come up mostly empty-handed. “To date, the administration has failed to provide the committee with the plans or any… Read more »

Wall Street Journal |  A lawyer for President Trump said that House Democrats’ request for the president’s tax returns flouts constitutional constraints and should be rejected by the Internal Revenue Service. In a letter to the Treasury Department’s top lawyer, attorney William Consovoy began laying out a legal case that the Trump administration could use to refuse the… Read more »

E&E News |  Momentum to provide record funding for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy in fiscal 2020 earned the endorsement of a bipartisan group of 115 House lawmakers this week. In a letter sent to lead appropriators Monday and made public yesterday, the collection of lawmakers requested the fiscal 2020 Energy-Water spending bill include $500 million for… Read more »

ARL Now |  Members of Congress are seeking $25 million to help defray costs at the county’s 9/11 memorials, including the Pentagon Memorial. Arlington’s Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.), along with Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), are leading a request for $25 million they say is needed to fund the “9/11 Memorial Competitive Grants Program.” “We made a promise in the days after 9/11 — to never… Read more »

Roll Call | President Donald Trump continued his attacks Tuesday morning on Puerto Rican leaders over hurricane aid and blasted a top House Democrat over what he described as hypocrisy over special Justice Department investigations. Trump fired off a number of tweets Monday night blasting Senate Democrats for shooting down a disaster relief bill over their concerns it… Read more »

Today, 83 Democratic Members of Congress, led by Reps. Lois Frankel (FL-21), Rosa DeLauro (CT-03), Alma Adams (NC-12), Suzanne Bonamici (OR-01), and Don Beyer (VA-08), sent a letter to House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies requesting an additional $20 million in funding for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission… Read more »

The Hill |  Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) introduced legislation Thursday to tackle climate change and boost the economy two days after the Senate blocked the hotly contested Green New Deal. The Democrats proposed the Healthy Climate and Family Security Act, which would cap carbon pollution and curtail carbon dioxide emissions… Read more »

FOX 5 |  Family members of a man who was shot and killed by U.S. Park Police officers gathered Monday outside of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. demanding transparency as they marked 500 days since the shooting. Bijan Ghaisar, a 25-year-old accountant from McLean, was shot on Nov. 17, 2017, in Fairfax County by two U.S. Park Police officers. The shooting was… Read more »