Virginia’s House Democrats today wrote to the Acting Directors of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) urging them to shield federal employees from negative impacts of the shutdown on security clearances and clearance applications. The letter was signed by Virginia Reps. Don Beyer, Gerry Connolly, Jennifer Wexton, Bobby Scott, Donald… Read more »
U.S. Representative Don Beyer (VA-08) today released the following statement after Republicans on the subcommittee of the Privileges and Elections Committee in the Virginia General Assembly voted to block the Equal Rights Amendment ratification resolution:
“Today, in the oldest legislative body in America, where many of our Founding Fathers served, in a Commonwealth that brought us the… Read more »
Today Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents more federal employees than any other Member of the House of Representatives, issued the following statement after President Trump’s announcement that he would sign a temporary funding bill to end the partial government shutdown:
“I’m grateful that the shutdown will end soon, but I do not understand why it happened at all.
“If I understood him… Read more »
Congressman Anthony G. Brown (MD-04) released the following statement after introducing legislation to guarantee every federal employee can access unemployment benefits while President Trump keeps the government shut down. The Department of Labor has issued guidance that essential workers are not eligible for unemployment benefits even though they are being required to work without pay.… Read more »
Virginia Representatives Gerry Connolly, Don Beyer and Jennifer Wexton sent a letter to Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser today opposing a plan by the D.C. Health Department to unilaterally end a 28-year agreement for the administration of HIV/AIDS funding. Pursuant to the agreement, the Northern Virginia Regional Commission (NVRC) has administered Part A funding from the Ryan White… Read more »
Today Congressman Beyer joined volunteers in the World Central Kitchen in Washington, D.C., to serve food to federal employees impacted by the ongoing government shutdown. The shutdown, now in its second month, is the longest in US history.
“I’ve never seen anything like this,” said Rep. Beyer. “Having people who should be working in good jobs standing in a line in the freezing cold that… Read more »
Today 124 Members of the House of Representatives led by Reps. Don Beyer (VA), Jan Schakowsky (D-IL), Betty McCollum (D-MN), Andre Carson (D-IN), Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) introduced the Freedom of Religion Act to prohibit religious discrimination in our immigration system. The legislation was originally… Read more »
Rep. Pete Olson (TX-22), Rep. Don Beyer (VA-08) and Rep. Ed Perlmutter (CO-07) today acted to provide relief to federal employees affected by the partial government shutdown by introducing H.R. 545, the Financial Relief for Feds Act. This bill will allow federal employees and contractors to withdraw funds from their retirement accounts without being penalized. Original cosponsors of H.R.… Read more »
Today the House of Representatives passed the Senate companion version of legislation offered by Rep. Don Beyer to guarantee back pay to federal employees affected by the partial government shutdown. The House approved the bill with near-unanimous support from both parties.
“This bill is a critical step towards undoing some of the damage caused by the government shutdown,” said Rep.… Read more »
Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) announced today that he has received an appointment to the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, one of the five exclusive House committees. Ways and Means has a wide breadth of jurisdiction, including health care, trade policy and tariffs, and oversight of Medicare and Social Security. It is the House Committee directly responsible for writing tax legislation,… Read more »
