Last night Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) voted to improve mail delivery and strengthen the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) with the Postal Service Reform Act, which passed on a bipartisan vote. The bill now heads to the Senate for further consideration. The Postal Service Reform Act directs billions in funding to USPS, and would make reforms to increase performance transparency and create new… Read more »
Chair of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Chair of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace F. Napolitano (D-CA), Chair of the Joint Economic Committee Don Beyer (D-VA) and 117 representatives yesterday wrote to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) urging them to swiftly… Read more »
Today, Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), Chairman of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC), released the following statement after the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported that nonfarm payroll employment increased by 467,000 in January and the unemployment rate was steady at 4.0%. The unemployment rate was 6.9% for Black workers, 4.9% for Hispanic workers, 3.6% for Asian… Read more »
Today, Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), Chairman of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC), released the following statement after the House passed the America COMPETES Act (H.R. 4521). The Senate’s companion bill, the U.S. Innovation and Competition Act, passed with overwhelming bipartisan support in June 2021.
“Manufacturing has long been a core strength of the American economy,… Read more »
“We applaud the administration for sticking to its clear and time-constrained human rights conditions on military assistance for Egypt and reprogramming all $130 million in suspended aid—just as we had urged. While the Egyptians released a few high-profile political prisoners, they clearly did not satisfy the full list of requirements provided by the administration. There’s a clear… Read more »
Today, Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), Chairman of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC), released the following statement after the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) reported its initial estimate of gross domestic product (GDP) growth of 5.7% for 2021 and 6.9% for the fourth quarter.
Visit the JEC’s Macroeconomic Dashboard to view the latest economic… Read more »
Today, on NASA’s Day of Remembrance, we honor the NASA heroes who lost their lives while advancing our nation’s discovery and exploration of space.
“NASA’s annual Day of Remembrance is an important time of reflection," said… Read more »
Washington (January 26, 2022) – Senators Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), and Representatives John Garamendi (CA-03) and Donald S. Beyer (VA-08), co-chairs of the Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control Working Group, today led 51 of their colleagues in a letter to President Joe Biden urging the United States to take bold steps to reduce its reliance on nuclear weapons,… Read more »
Washington, D.C.—On Thursday, the Joint Economic Committee, led by Congressman
Don Beyer (D-VA), released a new
report examining the
economy- and society-wide benefits of closing the Medicaid coverage gap. In 11 states that have not expanded Medicaid under the
Affordable Care Act, 2.2 million workers
who earn above their state’s Medicaid eligibility threshold but below the
poverty… Read more »
Pressley, Beyer Urge CDC to Collect, Publish Demographic Data on Prevalence of Long COVID
Disaggregated Data Will Inform Congressional Action to Support Those with Long COVID
Text of the Letter (PDF)
WASHINGTON – Today, Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley (MA-07) and Congressman Don Beyer (VA-08) sent a letter to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) urging it to… Read more »
