Originally published in the Falls Church News Press
Saturday marked the 49th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision that granted women the right to safe and legal abortion. While the constitutional right to bodily autonomy has been repeatedly affirmed, a case currently before the Supreme Court has put reproductive rights in jeopardy. A decision in Dobbs vs. Jackson… Read more »
It’s Time For Congress to Support Fusion Energy
Fusion devices for clean, safe, and affordable electricity and industrial heat are making advances and need a push
By U.S. Representative Don Beyer on June 4, 2021
Published in Scientific American
The existential threat of the climate emergency poses perhaps the greatest danger to human health and prosperity we have… Read more »
Originally Published At CNBC
There’s the human cost of police misconduct.
Unarmed Black Americans are killed by police officers with appalling frequency. For young Black men, police violence is one of the leading causes of death.
A year ago, former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on the neck of George Floyd for more than 9 minutes, murdering him.… Read more »
Congressman Don Beyer: Please Get Vaccinated
Originally published in the Falls Church News Press
As of this week, every Virginian adult aged 16 and older is eligible to get a free Covid-19 vaccine.
This vaccine will save your life.
It will save lives of your family, your friends, your neighbors and coworkers.
For over a year our country has undertaken a historic vaccination… Read more »
Don Beyer column: Washington, D.C., should be a state
Published in the Richmond Times Dispatch
March 30, 2021
There is a curious geopolitical divide for residents with addresses on stretches of Eastern Avenue, which runs along the northeastern boundary of the nation’s capital.
The houses, driveways and yards are in places indistinguishable. But the people who live on the eastern… Read more »
Reversing the Trump administration's numerous harmful efforts to censor science
Originally published in The Hill By Reps. Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR.), Paul Tonko (D-NY), and Don Beyer (D-VA.)
As lawmakers and leaders on the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee, we rely on the scientific community to inform everything we do, from confronting public health threats caused by the… Read more »
To get through the pandemic, we’re gonna need a bigger boat
Automatic stabilizers can help provide some certainty during uncertain times
Published at Roll Call
By Rep. Derek Kilmer and Rep. Donald S. Beyer Jr.
Posted May 12, 2020 at 7:32pm
Most of us remember that terrifying scene from “Jaws.”
Brody, played by Roy Scheider, leans over the boat and… Read more »
State and local governments fighting coronavirus need our help now
By: Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), Opinion Contributor
The Hill
April 9, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is the most serious public health crisis in the United States in a century, and it may cause an economic crisis worse than the Great Recession. The two crises are intertwined because the steps necessary to contain the… Read more »
We need a massive economic response to counter the threat of the coronavirus
BY REP. DON BEYER (D-VA.), OPINION CONTRIBUTOR — 03/18/20
Originally published in The Hill
The United States is facing what could become the most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. We must therefore take immediate, large-scale, once-in-a-century action to protect our public… Read more »
Last week newly-elected Joint Economic Committee Vice Chair Don Beyer (D-VA) addressed President Trump’s false claims on the economy during a special order hour on the House Floor.
Today, writing in The Hill, Beyer went into further detail to rebut some of the claims the President is expected to make on the economy during his State of the Union Address this evening before a joint session… Read more »
