Oversight

Washington Post |  Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) Tuesday evening became the first member of the Virginia congressional delegation to call for impeachment proceedings against President Trump. The liberal three-term congressman is one of more than two dozen Democrats who have spoken up to support an impeachment “inquiry” in recent days. After Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.), Beyer is the… Read more »

ARL Now |  Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) has become the first member of Virginia’s Congressional delegation to call for the impeachment of President Donald Trump. Beyer made the announcement Tuesday. It is the first time he has publicly called for an impeachment inquiry. Click here to read the full article Read more »

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) today issued the following statement: “The time has come for the House of Representatives to open an impeachment inquiry into the conduct of President Trump. “Endorsing such a course is not easy, and I do not do so lightly, but I believe that the President has left Congress no other option but to pursue it. When I came to Congress I swore an oath ‘to defend the… Read more »

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) today introduced legislation to remedy a change in tax code which drastically increased tax burdens on the child survivors of first responders. The tax increase, caused by the 2017 GOP tax bill, was brought to Beyer’s attention by a constituent whose family members, the children of a deceased firefighter, had been hit with such a tax increase. “Fixing this unfair… Read more »

Today Rep. Beyer issued the following statement on the report issued by the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) outlining wasteful spending on travel by disgraced former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt: “The OIG investigation confirms the warnings that I and others made at the time about Scott Pruitt’s gross abuse of his official position. Pruitt… Read more »

ABC News |  President Donald Trump is still fighting Congress over the release of his tax returns, but a new report on Tuesday analyzing his official Internal Revenue Service tax transcripts, with the figures from his federal tax forms, shows he lost over $1 billion from 1985 to 1994.   The documents show Trump's businesses lost $1.17 billion over the 10 years,… Read more »

WyoFile |  An influential cattlemen’s group is trying to rescind a U.S. Interior Department big game migration route protection order that brought $3.2 million to Wyoming in the last three months. The 121-year-old National Cattlemen’s Beef Association says stockmen and women haven’t been considered in the program spawned by former Secretary of the Interior Ryan… Read more »

The Hill |  Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) told Hill.TV during an appearance on “Rising” that Attorney General William Barr “twisted himself into a pretzel” trying to defend President Trump and avoid perjuring himself during his Senate testimony on Wednesday. “I was really disappointed, I suggested a couple of weeks ago that he should think about resigning but after… Read more »

CNN |  In the hours after receiving the long-awaited report from special counsel Robert Mueller, some Democrats on Capitol Hill called not to impeach the President but for the removal of Attorney General William Barr. The attacks against the head of the Justice Department underscored the Democratic Party's reluctance to opening up politically divisive proceedings to charge… Read more »

Raw Story |  During a Fox News interview Sunday, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed that elected officials are likely “not smart enough” to understand President Donald Trump’s tax returns if he released them. It prompted members of Congress to strike back with a bet of their own. ... Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) agreed, noting that Sanders can hurl… Read more »