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Don Beyer is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Virginia's 8th congressional district since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, Beyer has focused on issues such as healthcare, economic inequality, and environmental protection during his time in office. He has been an advocate for progressive policies and has often spoken out against the economic impacts of tariffs and other policies he attributes to the previous administration. Beyer has also emphasized the importance of social justice and healthcare access in his legislative efforts.
I thank the gentleman once again for staying late and for his 32 years of service just in this institution not counting all the others. Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentlewoman from Virginia (Ms. Spanberger), a force of nature and who many…
I thank the gentlewoman for staying late and for her thoughtful remarks. I yield to the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott), the dean of the Virginia delegation, recently reelected by the steering committee this afternoon, and hopefully to…
I keep hearing from my Republican friends that everyone wants to protect the North Atlantic right whale.
I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Arizona will be postponed. {time} 1445 Amendment No. 24 Offered by Mr. Roy The Acting CHAIR…
I introduced a bill recently with Don Bacon, a Republican from Nebraska, the Improving Reporting to Prevent Hate Act.
I was disappointed that not a single Republican joined Congressman Casten's appropriations letter to ensure that the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights had the funding it needed to pursue actual antisemitic crimes on college…
Necessary for Congress to step up and legislate strong standards for equity, bias, risk management, and consumer protection.
To restate, we have the most unequal incomes, the most wealth inequality in the industrialized world right now.
This administration has held fast the position that national security concerns remain sacrosanct and out of bounds for multilateral body to consider.
I have engaged with it many times. When children's Tylenol was scarce, Raul Grijalva and I led an inquiry to see if the administration could take action.
Representative Anna Eshoo has been leading on this issue with several bills, including the Drug Origin Transparency Act.
This bill is not perfect, but no bill ever is. This act is win-win-win. There will be 400,000 children who will be lifted out of poverty. There will be 200,000 new affordable homes built. Research and development, the absolute essential…
I would like the Committee to include a notable bipartisan bill that I introduced with Rep. Juan Ciscomani, H.R. 5242.
I encourage the Committee to protect the much needed adjustments that were made to the Thrifty Food Plan.
Commodity crops accounted for 94 percent of crop insurance policies, whereas the whole farm revenue policies that service smaller diversified farms... accounted for less than one percent of the policies sold.
In my state, 89 percent of the farmers receive no subsidies from the Federal Government.
Yet, that is precisely what the GAO found. There are 1,341 producers making more than $900,000 a year in gross income, who have 2/3 of their insurance premium paid for by the Federal Government.
I want to urge the Committee to ensure that the next farm bill uses the almost $20 billion from the Inflation Reduction Act for its intended purpose in USDA conservation programs.
My bill establishes an Interagency Committee on Soil Carbon Research led by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
I have been a champion of wildlife corridors over my past decade in Congress, since my first term when I introduced the bipartisan Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act.
This can be done in a way so that prime farmland isn't lost and supports rather than competes with a farming future.
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