Honorable Don Beyer
United States Representative, Virginia, Democrat
Representative Beyer, of the Eighth District of Virginia, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2014. He served as Virginia’s Lieutenant Government from 1990 to 1998 and as U.S. Ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein from 2009 to 2013. He sits on the Science, Space, and Technology Committee, the Natural Resources Committee, and the Joint Economic Committee. The following is from the February 7, 2017, House floor debate on H.J. Res. 44, disapproving the Department of the Interior rule relating to Bureau of Land Management (BLM) regulations. I think the real question for the majority is: What do…
