Don Beyer

I believe the farm bill is an opportunity for the USDA to improve their assistance and recognition of farmers and ranchers who have voluntarily conserved their lands as wildlife corridors.

My farmer-led energy future proposal puts rural communities in the driver's seat so the farmers themselves can look at incorporating potential additional income streams of renewable energy.

I am supporting the incorporation of the Agricultural Resilience Act authored by Congresswoman Chellie Pingree in your farm bill.

We should use the farm bill to direct USDA to be a better partner to farmers practicing perennial agriculture.

I just feel this will be stealing money from Virginia farmers, from America's farmers that they have already anticipated receiving, $275 million just in Virginia.

It is really wonderful to be able to talk about key priorities.

I'm proud to co-lead this bipartisan bill with Congresswoman Elissa Slotkin of MI, Congressman Mike Bost of IL, and Senator Sherrod Brown of OH.

As all the Members of Congress, I hear lots and lots of negative feedback on our constituent service.

What if you didn't have to have transfer payments because we paid people a living wage?

There have been a number of Republican amendments already to make SNAP benefits ever harder to access.

I think we have to recognize that there is a balance there between the enormous advantages to having a mother stay home.

Even--I have one of the wealthiest districts in the country, Northern Virginia, and yet there are huge pockets of poverty.

The money is there, the resources are there, we are an extraordinarily wealthy nation, but they tend to be concentrated in a few places.

We have complete autonomy. We have not given our sovereignty away to anybody else.

In no way is insisting that international corporations who have been purposefully cheating on their taxes, avoiding taxes through great manipulation, is a move to global socialism.

This lack of sovereignty--the sovereignty thing is the emptiest issue I have ever seen.

We need to stop the tax cheating.

This is the greatest misunderstanding of what this legislation does that I have ever seen.

I think I would restate that the Endangered Species Act is indeed more important now than ever.

I think it was Mr. Wood who said in the original legislation it talked about bringing any listed species to the point of which ESA regulations are no longer necessary.

I think we all recognize that the Endangered Species Act is a balancing act with many different concerns that citizens have.

The unfairness of having the rich pay by one set of rules and working families pay by another is pernicious and dangerous.

There is a $9.7 billion investment in rural electric cooperatives, allowing for rural communities to switch to clean energy not only for the benefits for clean air and climate, but also for the benefits for jobs and economic development in…

The IRA takes a step in the right direction by dedicating funds--4 billion under a manufacturing program, a bonus tax credit for the wind and solar developments, a loan program worth $250 billion in loans--to specifically invest in energy…

The IRA recognizes one essential truth, which is that while there has been a lot of hand-waving in the past, assuming that technological shifts will just naturally take care of workers and communities, we know that is absolutely not the…