The Hill |
A small, bipartisan group of House members on Tuesday introduced a bill that would allow federal workers affected by the partial government shutdown to withdraw funds from their retirement accounts without penalty.
If passed, the bill would allow workers to draw down funds from retirement accounts without having to pay the usual 10 percent fee.
“Families of… Read more »
Federal News Network |
As furloughed and excepted federal employees working without pay are set to miss their first scheduled paycheck of 2019 this Friday, hundreds showed up on a cold and windy Thursday to demand an end to the partial government shutdown.
The impact of the government shutdown, now closing in on 20-days long, is setting in for furloughed and excepted employees,… Read more »
Today the House of Representatives passed the Senate companion version of legislation offered by Rep. Don Beyer to guarantee back pay to federal employees affected by the partial government shutdown. The House approved the bill with near-unanimous support from both parties.
“This bill is a critical step towards undoing some of the damage caused by the government shutdown,” said Rep.… Read more »
New York Daily News |
The government can’t reopen itself — but it can apparently accommodate deep-pocketed lobbyists.
The Treasury Department reinstated an Internal Revenue Service program essential to the mortgage industry this week after the powerful lending block launched a lobbying effort amid an ongoing government shutdown set to become the longest in… Read more »
The Hill |
Democratic Rep. Don Beyer (Va.) is throwing his support behind the progressive climate change vision known as the Green New Deal, and he thinks a carbon tax should be its driving policy.
“A Green New Deal would use major infrastructure investments and policy changes to rapidly shift the U.S. economy towards clean energy solutions and away from greenhouse gas emissions… Read more »
Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) announced today that he has received an appointment to the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, one of the five exclusive House committees. Ways and Means has a wide breadth of jurisdiction, including health care, trade policy and tariffs, and oversight of Medicare and Social Security. It is the House Committee directly responsible for writing tax legislation,… Read more »
The Hill |
Some House Democrats are endorsing the idea of President Trumpdeclaring a national emergency at the southern border to dissolve a partisan standoff about funding his border wall and end a weeks-long government shutdown.
The supportive Democrats are quick to emphasize they don’t believe the president has the legal authority to declare such an emergency,… Read more »
Washington Post |
Eight House Democrats who represent the capital region, home to the biggest concentration of federal workers, denounced the shutdown on Wednesday and slammed President Trump.
During a news conference outside the Capitol, several members said their offices are being flooded with calls, emails and letters from constituents panicking about how they will… Read more »
Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) today reintroduced her bill to guarantee back pay to low-wage federally contracted retail, food, custodial and security service workers not getting paid during the current federal government shutdown (fiscal year 2019). Norton introduced a version of the bill during the last government shutdown, and has introduced it in past Congresses… Read more »
ARL Now |
As President Trump weighs the extraordinary step of declaring a national emergency to unilaterally build a wall along the southern border, Rep. Don Beyer (D-8th District) is urging Trump to return to the negotiating table and put federal employees back to work.
Like any member of Congress representing the D.C. suburbs, Beyer is no great fan of… Read more »
