Think Progress | Vice President Mike Pence visited a Border Patrol detention facility in Texas on Friday evening. The image of him in a blazer, blithely looking through a chain-link fence at hundreds of people, forced to stand in an overcrowded, confined space with no room to lie down, is destined to be one of the seminal representations of the Trump administration’s treatment of migrants coming t... Read more »
Rolling Stone | Vice President Mike Pence, accompanied by Republican senators including Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC), visited two detention facilities near the U.S.-Mexico border where migrants were being held on Friday. Pence visited one center in Donna, Tex. where men were being held in addition to a McAllen facility where children were detained. ... But Trump and Pence are the ones ensuring the s... Read more »
Today, Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) voted to pass H.R. 1327, the “Never Forget the Heroes: James Zadroga, Ray Pfeifer, and Luis Alverez Permanent Authorization of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund Act,” which takes long-overdue action to provide the financial security and support that 9/11 first responders, survivors and families deserve. “On September 11, 2001, America suffered an unimaginable... Read more »
Rep. Don Beyer today hailed the passage of two measures to support the federal workforce, which were included in H.R. 2500, National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The bill, which passed in the House 220-197, included the legislative text of Rep. Carolyn Maloney’s Federal Employee Paid Leave Act, of which Beyer is a lead cosponsor. It also incorporated an amendment offered by Reps. Gerry Connol... Read more »
Federal News Network | Two more members of Congress have expressed open skepticism and concern for the Trump administration’s proposal to merge the Office of Personnel Management with the General Services Administration. In a letter to acting OPM Director Margaret Weichert, ranking members of two Senate committees questioned whether the administration was rushing to make decisions about the agency... Read more »
Last night the House of Representatives adopted a set of amendments to H.R. 2500, the National Defense Authorization Act, including two offered by Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) and Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) which would address helicopter noise in the National Capital Region. “Despite widespread complaints from residents across the National Capital Region and our engagement with the Pentag... Read more »
WTOP | A trio of Democratic U.S. senators is requesting an investigation into the costs of President Donald Trump’s “Salute to America” event on the Fourth of July, which included military flyovers and tanks on the National Mall. The lawmakers, who include Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., are asking the Government Accountability Office to determine whether the event broke any laws that prohibit taxpa... Read more »
Buzzfeed News | In late May, with a tornado warning in effect, about a hundred people showed up at a town hall with Rep. Madeleine Dean in her southeast Pennsylvania district. “We weren’t eight minutes into the doggone thing … when somebody said, ‘When are you going to go for impeachment?’” Dean recalled in a recent interview with BuzzFeed News. “When I made my explanation that I had made my decis... Read more »
The Hill | Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.) criticized President Trump's "Salute to America" Fourth of July plans, accusing the president of overspending and turning the celebration into a partisan event. "I grew up here in Washington, I've been to the 'Salute on the Mall' many, many times. It's always been nonpartisan," Beyer said on CNN's "New Day" Wednesday morning. "This must be the most insecure man I'... Read more »
Roll Call | President Donald Trump should pay out of his own pocket for any infrastructure damage incurred by rolling 70-ton tanks onto the National Mall, according to the Democratic congressman who represents the D.C. suburbs in Virginia. Rep. Don Beyer described Trump’s plan to showcase tanks during the city’s Fourth of July celebration as “an authoritarian-style marshal display” in a statement ... Read more »
