Oversight

Rep. Beyer (D-VA), a Member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, today issued the following statement on the complaint filed in federal court by that Committee to obtain six years of President Trump’s tax returns: “Forcing the people’s elected Representatives to sue to enforce a clear legal statute is a new low in presidential corruption,” said Rep. Beyer. “The President is defying… Read more »

The Hill |  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday weighed in on E. Jean Carroll's allegation that President Trump raped her, saying Trump “denied it, and that’s all I needed to hear.” “The president has denied it,” Graham said, according to multiple reports. “I have no reason to … you know, no. He’s denied it, and that’s all I needed to… Read more »

Safe Climate Caucus co-chairs Reps. Alan Lowenthal (CA-47) and Don Beyer (VA-08) released the following statement today after the Trump administration announced its replacement for the Clean Power Plan: “After decades of progress, the United States’ air quality has slipped for the first time in decades under President Trump. One day after this report, the Administration announced its… Read more »

U.S. Representatives Don Beyer (D-VA) and Ted Lieu (D-CA) today wrote to Special Counsel Henry Kerner to request an investigation of White House Senior Advisor Jared Kushner for violations of the Hatch Act. “We write to request that the Office of Special Counsel open an investigation to determine whether Senior White House Adviser Jared Kushner is violating the Hatch Act by engaging… Read more »

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), a Member of the House Ways and Means Committee made the following statement on the Office of Legal Counsel’s memo on [the Ways and Means] “Committee’s Request for the President’s Tax Returns,” issued Friday afternoon: “The OLC’s legal opinion is pure projection. They write that the Ways and Means Committee’s legislative purpose for seeking the President’s tax… Read more »

Washington Post |  The Justice Department on Friday released its legal rationale for refusing to provide President Trump’s tax returns to Congress, arguing that House Democrats want to make the documents public, which “is not a legitimate legislative purpose.” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin refused to hand the documents over early last month, writing in a letter to House Ways… Read more »

The House today adopted Rep. Don Beyer’s (D-VA) amendment to require increased reporting from federal agencies on the location and basic details of unaccompanied children in their care. Under Beyer’s amendment, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) would be required to share a monthly census by facility of unaccompanied minors by age cohort and gender with Congressional Committees of… Read more »

Rep. Don Beyer (VA-08) released the following statement today after the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it would move the Economic Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture to Kansas City: “Once again, the Trump administration is toying with the lives of hardworking civil servants. Secretary Perdue’s decision to relocate the Economic Research Service and… Read more »

Huff Post |  The Trump administration must stop applying a discriminatory policy that denies citizenship to some children born abroad to same-sex couples, 19 senators and 80 representatives said Thursday in letters to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. The government treats some children born outside the United States to same-sex married couples as “born out of wedlock” ― a… Read more »

Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), joined by Representatives Gerry Connolly (D-VA), Don Beyer (D-VA), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Anthony Brown (D-MD) and David Trone (D-MD), today announced that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) will conduct a study of helicopter noise within the Washington metropolitan region, a request the Members made in January. In their letter, Members… Read more »