1) Bird flu cases are rising, including in Virginia:
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2) Thanks to Trump, the CDC has no leader:
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3) The Trump admin halted CDC scientific meetings and public communications, including on bird flu:
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/h...
Congress Member Profile|U.S. Representative|Democrat|Virginia District 8
Donald S. Beyer, Jr.
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Voting Record — 569
Yes41%
No56%
Present1%
Not Voting3%
Party align98%
Cross-party0%
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Donald S. Beyer, Jr.
U.S. RepresentativeDemocratVirginia District 8
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Donald S.'s ATmosphere Activity
20 recent posts · 52 sponsored · 178 cosponsored
Recent ATmosphere posts, sponsorships, and cosponsorships.
I think Trump’s "Schedule F" order is clearly illegal, but in this judicial environment preventing it from taking effect may require robust legal challenges and ultimately passage of the Saving the Civil Service Act, which I strongly support.
Merit, not political allegiance, has been the core value for government hiring and advancement for over a century, through Democratic and Republican administrations.
Our merit-based system has strong support with both parties in Congress today.
We did not always have a merit-based system that saw federal employees hired and promoted based on performance and skill.
Congress passed laws specifically to replace a spoils system that was rife with incompetence and corruption– which is what would ensue if Trump gets his way.
America's federal workers perform safety inspections on our food and water.
They are the first line of defense against epidemic and common illnesses alike.
They provide care for our veterans.
They deliver our mail.
Replacing that with political cronyism would hurt everyone.
Federal workers are integral to national security and public health.
When Americans visit a National Park or get a Social Security payment, they don’t ask whether the public servant who helps them is loyal to Trump, they just want someone who is competent and good at the job.
President Trump's executive order politicizing the federal workforce is a recipe for corruption that would make the country less safe.
My statement:
beyer.house.gov/news/documen...
Donald Trump is diverting federal law enforcement away from their counterterrorism mission just three weeks after one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in recent history, in New Orleans. This does not make us safer.
NEW: Trump DOJ officials issue first broad directives, shifting resources from counterterrorism to immigration enforcement. Likely to prompt strife with local and state cops on Joint Terrorism Task Forces across country
w/@DashaBurns
www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
How Trump's hiring freeze and civil service attacks affect the American people:
Today I was contacted by a constituent who is a mental health professional hired to treat veterans at the V.A.
Trump’s executive actions are preventing them from starting work and providing care to American veterans.
Trump pardoned this man, who was:
- Convicted of domestic violence battery by strangulation
- Convicted of battery on law enforcement officer
- Charged with assaulting police and using an explosive on Jan. 6
And Trump just released hundreds more violent criminals like him into American communities
Trump’s executive actions are a collection of bad ideas, many of dubious legality, clearly unconstitutional, or poorly drafted.
Some will raise costs.
Trump was evidently more interested in scamming his supporters with meme coins than he was in following through on promises to address inflation.
My thoughts today are with the officers who defended the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, and with the families of the officers who defended the Capitol that day who are no longer with us. I represent many of them, and will continue to advocate for them as long as I serve here.
Trump's pardons signal his embrace of his supporters’ violent attack on the Capitol.
His attempts to erase or rewrite history have failed utterly in the face of his choice to pardon hundreds of violent criminals for brutal assaults that left hundreds of police officers wounded.
By pardoning those who carried out these heinous crimes, Donald Trump made our country less safe and betrayed the law enforcement heroes who protected the Capitol at great personal cost.
No one who remains silent in this moment can ever credibly claim to "back the blue."
Trump pardoned hundreds of people who pleaded guilty to assaulting law enforcement, many of them with deadly weapons, and pardoned or commuted the sentences of over a dozen violent criminals convicted of seditious conspiracy.
www.justice.gov/usao-dc/47-m...
Trump pardoned the people who beat and tazed my constituent, Officer Michael Fanone, who gave a brain injury to my constituent Officer Jeff Smith days before he died by suicide, and who attacked and sprayed my constituent, Officer Brian Sicknick, with bear spray before his death from two strokes.
With these pardons and commutations Donald Trump embraced violence and lawlessness.
This injustice is a gross betrayal of the service and sacrifice of the courageous officers who defended the Capitol on January 6th, but it does not diminish their patriotism.
My statement:
*Youngkin, obviously
Oligarchy watch: four of the five richest people in the world just got prime seating with their guests in the Capitol Rotunda while governors of U.S. states - including Governor Youngin - were made to watch Trump's inauguration ceremony on TV screens in an overflow room.
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Voting History569 total votesExpandCollapse
Voting History
569 total votes
Recent roll calls with party-majority context so it is easier to scan how this member tends to vote.
| Date | Bill | Question | Position | Party Maj | Align? | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-10 | S. 1071 (119th) | Motion to Commit | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-12-10 | H. Res. 936 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-10 | H. Res. 936 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-10 | H.R. 1676 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-09 | S. 356 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-04 | H.R. 1049 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-04 | H.R. 1069 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-03 | H.R. 1005 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-03 | H.R. 4305 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-03 | H.R. 2965 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-02 | H. Res. 916 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-02 | H. Res. 916 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-02 | H.R. 4423 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-12-01 | H.R. 5348 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-21 | H. Con. Res. 58 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 1949 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 3109 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H. Res. 893 (119th) | Motion to Refer | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 6019 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 4058 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 5107 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-20 | H.R. 5214 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-19 | H. Res. 888 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-11-19 | S.J. Res. 80 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-19 | H.J. Res. 131 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-19 | H.J. Res. 130 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-18 | H. Res. 888 (119th) | Motion to Refer | NOT_VOTING | YES | — | Failed |
| 2025-11-18 | H. Res. 878 (119th) | Approve resolution | NOT_VOTING | NO | — | Passed |
| 2025-11-18 | H. Res. 879 (119th) | Approve resolution | NOT_VOTING | NO | — | Passed |
| 2025-11-18 | H. Res. 879 (119th) | End debate now | NOT_VOTING | NO | — | Passed |
| 2025-11-18 | H.R. 4405 (119th) | Fast-track passage | NOT_VOTING | YES | — | Passed |
| 2025-11-18 | H. Res. 878 (119th) | Kill the motion | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-11-18 | H.R. 2659 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-17 | H.R. 1608 (119th) | Fast-track passage | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-13 | H.R. 5371 (119th) | Accept Senate changes | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-12 | H. Res. 873 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-11-12 | H. Res. 873 (119th) | End debate now | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-19 | H. Res. 719 (119th) | Approve resolution | PRESENT | YES | — | Passed |
| 2025-09-19 | H.R. 5371 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-19 | H.R. 5371 (119th) | Send back to committee | YES | YES | ✓ | Failed |
| 2025-09-18 | H.R. 1047 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-18 | H.R. 3015 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-18 | H.R. 3062 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-17 | H. Res. 713 (119th) | Kill the motion | YES | YES | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-17 | H.R. 5143 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-17 | H.R. 5125 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-17 | H. Res. 722 (119th) | Approve resolution | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-17 | H. Res. 722 (119th) | End debate now | NOT_VOTING | NO | — | Passed |
| 2025-09-16 | H.R. 5140 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
| 2025-09-16 | H.R. 4922 (119th) | Final passage | NO | NO | ✓ | Passed |
Alignment stats consider only votes where a clear yes/no majority existed for the legislator's party. Cross-party marks divergence where the vote matched the opposite party majority. ↔ indicates cross-party divergence.