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United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Representatives Katie Porter (D-Calif.), Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), and Don Beyer (D-Va.) released the following statement on the announcement by the U.S. Department of Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of its 2024 pilot of Direct File, a program that… Read more »

U.S. Representatives Don Beyer (D-VA), the leading House Democrat on Congress’ Joint Economic Committee, and Nancy Mace (R-SC) today introduced legislation to encourage gender parity in positions of corporate leadership. Their resolution expresses “the sense of the House of Representatives that corporations should commit to utilizing the benefits of gender diversity in boards of directors… Read more »

Ranking Member of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Rick Larsen (D-WA), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), Rep. Melanie Stansbury (D-NM) and 114 House Democrats introduced the Clean Water Act of 2023. The legislation undoes the damage from the Supreme Court’s Sackett decision by… Read more »

I stand with the people of Israel and condemn Hamas' attack which has claimed hundreds of lives, with many more wounded or taken hostage. The United States fully supports our Israeli friends in the face of this senseless violence, and we utterly reject these despicable terrorist acts. I will work with my colleagues in Congress to respond to this attack, and to provide the support… Read more »

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents a Northern Virginia district containing one of the largest concentrations of federal employees in the U.S. House, issued the following statement today on legislation to fund the government until November 17, 2023: “I am relieved that Speaker McCarthy folded and finally allowed a bipartisan vote at the eleventh hour on legislation to stop Republicans’… Read more »

Originally published in: MS NOW If he ever had it in the first place, Speaker Kevin McCarthy has lost control of the House of Representatives. For weeks, he has been unable to pass procedural legislation designed to keep the government open, much less move our annual bipartisan spending bills. This impasse has created the serious prospect of the first government shutdown since 2019.… Read more »

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents a Northern Virginia district containing one of the largest concentrations of federal employees in the U.S. House, today shared a letter one of his Alexandria constituents sent him earlier this week describing the way the impending government shutdown will personally impact her. Beyer previously shared excerpts of constituent stories describing the… Read more »

U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) today announced the introduction of the Off-Chain Digital Commodity Transaction Reporting Act, legislation that would protect participants in the digital asset market by requiring trading platforms to report all transactions to a repository registered with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). “As consumers increasingly turn to large… Read more »

Today, Joint Economic Committee Chairman Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and JEC Senior House Democrat Rep. Don Beyer (VA-08) released the following statement as the federal government comes to the brink of a shutdown. Earlier this month, the Joint Economic Committee Democrats released a report highlighting the economic impacts of a government shutdown. Estimates show that the 2013 shutdown… Read more »

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), co-founder of the Egypt Human Rights Caucus and longtime critic of the Sisi regime’s human rights violations, today issued the following statement on Senator Robert J. Menendez: “A jury will decide whether Senator Menendez committed federal crimes that can be proven beyond a reasonable doubt, but the preponderance of evidence presented in the indictment makes it… Read more »