Press Releases

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) today led a bipartisan House delegation including Reps. Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Ken Calvert (R-CA), and Tony Cárdenas (D-CA) in reintroducing the Humane Cosmetics Act. The legislation would end safety testing of cosmetic products on animals and prohibit the sale of products developed using animal testing. Senators Martha McSally (R-AZ) and Cory… Read more »

U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) and House Natural Resources Chair Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) today wrote to Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt seeking a briefing on “unresolved questions that were raised” by the shooting of unarmed 25-year-old Bijan Ghaisar by U.S. Park Police. Their letter came a day after the Justice Department closed its two-year investigation of the shooting… Read more »

Rep. Don Beyer, a Member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, today introduced the Healthcare Cost Transparency Act. The legislation would require all health insurers to offer customers price comparison tools online or by phone to assist those seeking the comparable costs of services they might need. “This legislation would help make the cost of health care more transparent, which… Read more »

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), and Congresswoman Jennifer Wexton (D-VA) released a letter today urging the U.S. Park Police to open an internal investigation into the killing of Bijan Ghaisar.  Yesterday, the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced it would not pursue legal action against the officers who shot and killed Ghaisar.  They… Read more »

U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) today issued the following statement on the Justice Department’s announcement that it would close the investigation into the November 17, 2017 killing of 25-year-old Northern Virginia accountant Bijan Ghaisar by U.S. Park Police without filing criminal charges: “This is not justice. “The Justice Department failed our community for two years by… Read more »

Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Congressman Don Beyer (D-Va.) introduced a new tax proposal to help close the gap between the wealthy and everyone else, and raise significant revenue to make new investments that will grow the economy and protect working families. Their “Millionaires Surtax” would apply an additional 10-percentage point tax to incomes above $2 million for… Read more »

Rep. Don Beyer, author of the NO HATE Act, today issued the following statement on the FBI’s release of hate crime statistics for 2018:   “This report on hate crime statistics unfortunately underscores again the dire need for a stronger and more comprehensive national strategy to fight hate. The rise in bias crimes against large groups of Americans sadly reflects what we keep… Read more »

President Trump announced the United States will begin the withdrawal process from the Paris Climate Accord, leaving America as the only nation to abandon the global effort to combat climate change. New Democrat Coalition (NDC) Chair Derek Kilmer (WA-06) and NDC Climate Change Task Force Co-Chairs Don Beyer (VA-08), Elaine Luria (VA-02), Sean Casten (IL-06), and Susan Wild… Read more »

U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) today announced that he will hold a town hall on the impeachment investigation on November 21 in the auditorium of Alexandria’s T.C. Williams High School. Beyer will be joined by a panel of legal and national security experts, who will be announced in days to come as they are confirmed, to answer questions from constituents. “This investigation is one… Read more »

Congressmen Alan Lowenthal (CA-47) and Don Beyer (VA-08), co-chairs of the Congressional Safe Climate Caucus, are calling on the Trump Administration to remain in the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change. In a letter to President Trump, the Members wrote, “As members of the Safe Climate Caucus, we write to express the importance of the United States maintaining its commitment to the… Read more »