December 20, 2021 (Washington, DC) – Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA) and Tom Malinowski (D-NJ), co-chairs of Congress’ Egypt Human Rights Caucus, issued the following statement today on the sentencing of Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, human rights lawyer Mohamed el-Baqer, and blogger Mohamed Ibrahim “Oxygen”.
“Today’s sentencing of Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah to five years in… Read more »
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Representatives Don Beyer (D-Va.), Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) and Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) today called on the Biden administration to require proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative COVID-19 test result for all domestic air travel.
“Travel at our nation’s airports has essentially returned to pre-pandemic levels but the risk from COVID-19,… Read more »
December 17, 2021 (Washington, D.C.) –Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA), Raskin (D-MD), and Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) today led a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) urging them to incorporate certain reforms into the newly established Office of Public Participation (OPP).
They wrote:
“We applaud the establishment of the Office of Public Participation (OPP) and the appointment… Read more »
December 15, 2021 (Washington, D.C.) – U.S. Representatives Don Beyer (D-VA), Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ), and Peter DeFazio (D-OR) today led a bipartisan group of 78 Representatives urging the Department of the Interior to “immediately issue an emergency listing to temporarily restore federal protections through the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to the gray wolf.”
They wrote:
“While we… Read more »
Washington, D.C.— Today, the Joint Economic Committee released a new report highlighting how six months of advance Child Tax Credit (CTC) payments, included in President Biden’s American Rescue Plan, have dramatically reduced childhood poverty and improved family finances. The expansion of the CTC is expected to reduce childhood poverty by 40% and lift 4 million children out of… Read more »
December 9, 2021 (Washington, D.C.) – Today Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Rob Portman (R-OH), and Reps. Vern Buchanan (R-FL) and Tony Cárdenas (D-CA) led a bipartisan, bicameral delegation in reintroducing the Humane Cosmetics Act. The legislation would end safety testing of cosmetic products on animals and prohibit the sale of products developed using animal… Read more »
Originally published on ARLNow
For the first time since it was built in the early 1960s, the northern section of the GW Parkway will be getting a major overhaul.
The National Park Service announced yesterday that it had awarded a $161 million contract to rehabilitate the Parkway from Spout Run in Arlington to the Capital Beltway in McLean. After a design process in 2022, construction… Read more »
December 8, 2021 (Washington, D.C.) – Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA), the Chairman of Congress’ Joint Economic Committee and author of the Digital Asset Market Structure and Investor Protection Act today issued the following statement as the House Financial Services Committee held a hearing on digital assets:
“I commend Chair Waters and the House Financial Services Committee for their work on… Read more »
(Washington, DC) – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 5746, the NASA Enhanced Use Leasing Extension Act of 2021. H.R. 5746 extends Enhanced Use Leasing (EUL) authority to NASA to effectively lease any underutilized, non-excess property owned by the Federal Government, and under NASA’s jurisdiction, to private sector entities,… Read more »
