Bustle Similarly, Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) suggested that Trump's decision was personally motivated, tweeting, "That Trump didn’t even ask his own Director of National Intelligence before revoking John Brennan’s security clearance tells you everything you need to know. This was political retribution, pure and simple." Click here to read the full article Read more »
The Hill Democrats accused the president of acting like a "dictator" by restricting Brennan's access, apparently in response to his frequent criticism of the Trump administration. “The President has adopted the weak, paranoid, authoritarian behavior of a dictator,” Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) tweeted after the announcement. Click here to read the full article Read more »
WNYC This weekend marked the anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a weekend marked by racist rhetoric and violence, including the murder of counter protester Heather Heyer. On Sunday, the group behind the Charlottesville rally held another rally in Washington, DC. Democratic Congressman Don Beyer counts DC suburbs Alexandria and Arlington among his constituents, r... Read more »
Huffpost Politicians and activists shared tributes to Heather Heyer on Sunday, honoring the 32-year-old woman killed one year ago while protesting a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Click here to read the full article Read more »
CNN But Virginia Democratic Rep. Don Beyer reacted to ProPublica's report on Twitter, calling the revelation "a huge corruption scandal." "Trump gave power to make decisions at the VA - affecting every US veteran - to three men who are neither government officials nor vets. Their only qualification: membership at Mar-A-Lago, for which they pay Trump," Beyer said. Click here to read the full articl... Read more »
Think Progress Using the USA Today op-ed as a guide, Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) on Wednesday tweeted a list of reasons why Zinke believes wildfires have grown worse in the western United States. The list did not include climate change. “I’d rather hear from scientists about what causes wildfires, but he keeps censoring them,” Beyer said in response to Zinke’s op-ed. The Department of the Interior has b... Read more »
POLITICO House Democrats have asked the Office of Government Ethics to review acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler's meetings with companies that employed him as a lobbyist, Emily Holden reports. Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) and several colleagues sent a letter to the independent agency following reporting from E&E News that Wheeler met with at least three former clients in recent months as deputy ad... Read more »
The Hill A group of House Democrats is calling for the government’s ethics office to investigate acting Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Andrew Wheeler's meetings with former lobbying clients. Democratic Reps. Don Beyer (Va.), Raja Krishnamoorthi (Ill.), Pramila Jayapal (Wash.) and Jamie Raskin (Md.) want the Office of Government Ethics to investigate whether the meetings, first reported... Read more »
Think Progress Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) on Friday led a group of House Democrats in sending a letter to the Office of Government Ethics asking it to conduct an investigation to determine whether Wheeler violated his ethics pledge. Beyer is the second-ranking Democrat on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee and the ranking member of its subcommittee on oversight. The House members asked ... Read more »
Yahoo News Staffers for Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va., noticed the late-June tweet even as much of Washington obsessed over Pruitt’s latest scandals involving used mattresses and expensive moisturizer. “The fossilized skull of a T-Rex ancestor on display Secretary Zinke’s office is exactly the kind of wonder that Department of Interior should be trying to conserve,” Beyer told Yahoo News. “The Trump admin... Read more »
