To commemorate National Hispanic Heritage Month, which begins today and runs through October 15, the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC), led by Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), led by Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz, M.D. (D-CA), released a new report highlighting the essential contributions Hispanic Americans make to U.S. economic growth… Read more »
Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) today announced the Alexandria Police Department has been awarded $600,000 in federal funding from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Justice Programs’ (OJB) Byrne Discretionary Community Project Grant to support the broad-scale implementation of a Body-worn Camera (BWC) program. Beyer secured this funding as a Community Project Funding request that was… Read more »
Congressmen Steve Cohen (TN-09) and Don Beyer (VA-08), after extensive consultation with the White House and Treasury Department officials, today introduced the Billionaire Minimum Income Tax Act, to ensure that the wealthiest Americans pay their fair share in taxes.
The bill would enact President Biden’s proposal to require households worth over $100 million to pay at least a 20 percent… Read more »
Originally published on Bloomberg.
President Joe Biden’s proposal to tax the unrealized gains of some of the richest Americans has taken legislative form with a new bill from two House Democrats.
The bill, which would affect 0.01% of US households and is intended to target wealth inequality, further establishes a once-fringe idea at the core of the party’s messaging on economic… Read more »
Originally published on Business Insider.
In the blink of an eye, Democrats are moving full force ahead with their agenda — and some want to throw a minimum tax on billionaires into the mix.
Reps. Don Beyer of Virginia and Steve Cohen of Tennessee are introducing legislation that would enact a targeted 20% income tax on households worth over $100 million. It's what the Democratic… Read more »
Today, U.S. Senators Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine, alongside Representatives Jennifer Wexton (VA-10), Don Beyer (VA-08), and Gerry Connolly (VA-11), pressed President Biden to raise Asim Ghafoor’s detention with the highest levels of the Emirati government and advocate for his fair and humane treatment. Asim Ghafoor—a U.S. citizen and Virginia resident—was reportedly tried in absentia,… Read more »
Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) today voted to defend Americans’ right to access birth control. The Right to Contraception Act passed with all Democrats and eight Republicans voting in favor, weeks after Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurrence in Dobbs urged the Supreme Court to “reconsider” its landmark Griswold v. Connecticut ruling. Griswold, a case about contraception, established a… Read more »
Originally published on Falls Church News-Press.
Rep. Don Beyer voted for the Respect for Marriage Act, federal legislation to codify marriage equality protections, yesterday. The House held the vote partially in response to Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurrence in Dobbs, the case that overturned Roe v. Wade, in which Thomas urged the Supreme Court to “reconsider”… Read more »
Rep. Don Beyer today voted for the Respect for Marriage Act, federal legislation to codify marriage equality protections. The House held the vote partially in response to Justice Clarence Thomas’ concurrence in Dobbs, the case that overturned Roe v. Wade, in which Thomas urged the Supreme Court to “reconsider” its Obergefell v. Hodges ruling which established marriage equality protections… Read more »
Originally published on Virginia Mercury.
The U.S. House passed legislation Friday that would reinstate access to abortion, though it’s highly unlikely the two bills approved on mostly party-line votes — or more that will come in the weeks ahead — would clear the 50-50 Senate.
One measure that House members engaged in passionate debate over Friday would make it clear that patients… Read more »
