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ALIVE! in Alexandria Awarded $1.5 Million To Purchase Dedicated Food Storage Warehouse

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Tags: Economy

Originally Published in The Zebra. Today ALIVE! announced their intent to purchase of a food storage warehouse, thanks to a federal government bill that allocates $1.5 million to their Community Project Funding Request. The investment amounts to the largest single commitment of funds in the nonprofit’s 50-year history. Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA) played a key role in securing…

House Passes Omnibus Bill With Key Democratic Priorities, Local Wins For Northern Virginia

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Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) today hailed passage of the omnibus funding bill in the House. The bill was negotiated on a bipartisan basis between Senate Democrats and Republicans and House Democrats, passed the Senate yesterday, and now heads to President Biden for signature. The bill contained Beyer-authored and co-authored legislation as well as community project funding and other Northern…

Federal Spending Bill Includes Funds For Route 1 Corridor Project

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Originally published in: Patch Funding for a community project in the Route 1/Richmond Highway corridor was included in the federal omnibus government funding bill. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents part of Fairfax County in Virginia's 8th congressional district, requested funding for community projects in his district in the federal spending bill. Funding could be requested by…

Beyer Secures Over $17 Million in Northern Virginia Projects Funding

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Originally published in: Falls Church News-Press U.S. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents Northern Virginia in the U.S. House, today announced that he had secured funding and legislative wins in the bipartisan funding bill for FY23. The omnibus government funding bill was the product of bipartisan negotiations; it passed the Senate this afternoon and expected to be passed by the House…

Federal Spending Bill Includes Money For Alexandria Projects

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Originally published in: Patch Funding for community projects in Alexandria was included in the federal omnibus government funding bill. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents Alexandria in Virginia's 8th congressional district, requested funding for community projects in his district in the federal spending bill. Funding could be requested by state and local government, public…

Federal Spending Bill Includes Funds For Falls Church Projects

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Originally published in: Patch Funding for community projects in Falls Church was included in the federal omnibus government funding bill. Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), who represents Falls Church in Virginia's 8th congressional district, requested funding for community projects in his district in the federal spending bill. Funding could be requested by state and local government, public…

Presidential transition process changes head to Biden’s desk

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Tags: Oversight

Originally published in Roll Call. The landmark overhaul of the Electoral Count Act isn’t the only way the omnibus spending bill that’s heading to President Joe Biden’s desk seeks to avoid a repeat of 2020’s post-election chaos. Also among the provisions in the catchall bill is a bipartisan effort to avoid a repeat of another controversy driven by an appointee of former President Donald…

Booker, Beyer Lead Colleagues in Urging CPSC to Address Dangerous Indoor Air Pollutions Emitted by Gas Stoves

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U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and U.S. Representative Don Beyer (D-VA) urged Alexander Hoehn-Saric, Chair of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), to address the high level of dangerous indoor air pollutants emitted by gas stoves. Reports have found that gas stoves, which are used by more than 40 million homes across the country, emit dangerous air pollutants such…

Beyer Introduces National All-Payer Claims Database Act to Decrease Healthcare Costs

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Rep. Don Beyer yesterday reintroduced the National All-Payer Claims Database Act to lower healthcare costs and improve healthcare delivery by supporting state all-payer claims databases (APCDs) to establish an easily accessible national database of all-payer claims. APCDs collect healthcare claims and related data from entities that pay for health care services, and have been used to help…

House Passes Legislation To Increase Government Transparency By Codifying Presidential Audit Program

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Tags: Oversight

Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), a member of the House Committee on Ways and Means, today welcomed House passage of the Presidential Tax Filings and Audit Transparency Act. Beyer said: “The House Ways and Means Committee investigation of the Internal Revenue Service’s presidential audit program reveals that this critical oversight tool was broken during the Trump presidency and was disregarded by…