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DemocratDonald S. Beyer, Jr.
U.S. Representative · Virginia
Virginia's 8th district
U.S. Representative from Virginia
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How they won their seat
Donald S Beyer Jr won the 2020 U.S. House election in Virginia (District 8) with 75.8% of the vote (301,454 votes).
- Donald S Beyer Jr · Democrat75.8%301,454
- Jeff A Jordan · Republican24%95,365
- 1 Other Candidate0.2%926
Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.
Inferred legislative agendas
The record includes sponsored bills related to technology, healthcare, and environmental conservation, as evidenced by sponsored bills such as the 'Artificial Intelligence Environmental Impacts Act of 2026' and the 'CLEAN UP Mines Act of 2026'. Additionally, the record includes sponsored bills related to economic issues, tax reform, and support for workers, including the 'Working Americans’ Tax Cut Act' and the 'Millionaires Surtax Act'. Focus areas (from the record): Technology · Healthcare · Environmental Conservation · Economic Reform · Workers' Rights Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There are no declared positions or tracked promises on file to compare against the inferred activity patterns. Therefore, it is not possible to assess alignment. What this can't tell you: The record does not reveal the effectiveness of the sponsored bills; There is no information on the politician's motives or intent behind the sponsored legislation; The absence of declared positions limits the ability to assess consistency with stated goals. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Donald S. Beyer, Jr. has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.
Showing 2023–2025 term. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.
Activity in office
What Donald S. Beyer, Jr. has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.
Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Monthly voting activity
- Yea
- Nay
- Total
Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.
Vote attendance
Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.
Independence
How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.
Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$124K6%
- Large individual (itemized)$1.0M52%
- PAC / committee$798K41%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, Joint Economic CommitteeOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Ways and MeansOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Ways and Means — TradeOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Ways and Means — TaxOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
236 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $1,628,107, spent $1,429,766, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9730: To expedite the rehiring of certain former career members of the Foreign Service, and for other purposes. ↗Jul 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9729: To amend title 10, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Defense to ensure that the use of autonomous weapons systems and artificial intelligence-enabled systems by the Armed Forces is subject to appropriate levels of human command responsibility, and for other purposes. ↗Jul 16, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9696: To improve the quality, appropriateness, and effectiveness of diagnosis in health care, and for other purposes. ↗Jul 15, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9622: Modernizing Aeronautical Standards Act ↗Jul 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9261: Comprehensive Paid Leave for Federal Employees Act ↗Jun 11, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9213: American Electric Rail Mapping Act of 2026 ↗Jun 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9182: Southeastern Rail Technologies Mapping Act of 2026 ↗Jun 8, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9183: Artificial Intelligence Environmental Impacts Act of 2026 ↗Jun 8, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9181: Rail Motive Power Source Integration Act of 2026 ↗Jun 8, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9047: Arlington National Cemetery Viewshed Protection Act ↗May 29, 2026
- Sponsored HR 9023: CLEAN UP Mines Act of 2026 ↗May 26, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8919: To nullify the decision and order of the Endangered Species Committee with respect to certain oil and gas activities, and for other purposes. ↗May 20, 2026
Showing the 12 most recent of 236 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 270
- Nay
- 368
- Present
- 2
- Not voting
- 15
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Nay
- HR1501Nay
- HJRES1Not voting
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HR9436Yea
- HRES1490Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HRES1499Nay
- HR6500Yea
- S32Yea
- S307Yea
- HR8884Nay
- HCONRES89Yea
- HCONRES113Nay
- HR7008Nay
- HR7008Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
2 positions on recordThe record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.
- Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyStated position
On record urging congressional leadership to attach Fourth Amendment protections to FISA Section 702 reauthorization: closing the data broker loophole and requiring a judicial warrant before the government accesses Americans' sensitive information, ending the Section 702 backdoor search loophole, and repealing the Section 702 'visa vetting' provision.
SourcesLetter from 53 Members of Congress to Speaker Mike Johnson, Leader John Thune, Leader Charles E. Schumer and Leader Hakeem Jeffries urging Fourth Amendment protections in FISA Section 702 reauthorizationView position & sources → - Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting NO on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.
SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.View position & sources →
Disclosure
A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.
No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.
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