Donald S. Beyer

12 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2015

• Representative VA-8 2015–present

• background Born June 20, 1950; a businessman who has owned automobile dealerships in Virginia
• role Served two terms as the 36th lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1990 to 1998
• background Was the Democratic nominee for governor of Virginia in 1997, losing to Republican Jim Gilmore
• role U.S. ambassador to Switzerland and Liechtenstein from 2009 to 2013
• role A Democrat, U.S. Representative for Virginia's 8th congressional district (Northern Virginia) since 2015

Assembled from Congress.gov · FEC · official disclosures — each fact links its own source

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• 100.0%
  Roll-call participation →

  voted in 3 recorded roll calls · chamber median 100.0%

  Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.

• 61
  Bills sponsored →

  plus 351 cosponsored

  A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.

• 0
  Sponsored bills enacted →

  of 61 bills sponsored

  Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.

• 0
  Documented positions →

  no positions documented yet

  Documented, sourced positions we have on record — the absence of a documented position is not the absence of a view.

• 4
  Committee assignments →

  committees and subcommittees

  Committee seats are assignments made by party leadership — a measure of role and jurisdiction, not an achievement or a conflict in itself.

• 418
  Disclosed stock trades →

  66 tickers · 35 in a sector a committee they sit on oversees

  Disclosed trades are legally required public filings (STOCK Act), not evidence of wrongdoing; trades may be executed by a manager or held in a blind trust.

• 2
  Documented relationships →

  neutral overlap signals (e.g., committee oversight of a traded sector)

  A documented relationship is a factual overlap in the public record — NOT evidence of wrongdoing.

Assembled from CivicGate's ingested public records for Donald S. Beyer. A fact shown as “—” means we don't yet hold that data — not that the value is zero.

Data from Congress.gov roll-call records

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

• Joint Economic Committee
• Ways and Means Committee · oversees Finance, Health
• Tax Subcommittee
• Trade Subcommittee

Documented + CivicGate vote-derived — stated positions link their source; derived positions come from votes on direction-tagged bills

• Economy & TaxesOppose from votes

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

Data from Congress.gov

The members Beyer most often co-sponsors bills with — their legislative coalition.

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

How Beyer connects to other members, committees, and PACs — drawn only from ingested records.

Data from Congress.gov