
Donald S. Beyer, Jr.
Democrat · VA-8 · U.S. House
Bio
Donald Sternoff Beyer Jr. is an American politician, businessman, and diplomat serving as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 8th congressional district since 2015. A member of the Democratic Party, his district is located in Northern Virginia and includes Alexandria, Falls Church, Arlington, and parts of eastern Fairfax County.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 11.6 years
- First took office
- 2015 (6 terms)
- Seniority
- 146 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 76
- Alexandria, VA · 703-658-5403
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $31.7M – $145.4M
- Liabilities
- $6.5M – $28.1M
- Net worth
- $3.5M – $138.8M
- Since 2019
- −$3.5M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 82 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Donald S. Beyer, Jr.'s voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Donald S. Beyer, Jr. (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Do you vote like Jr.?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Jr.sits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
- Joint Economic Committeecenter · 20 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Jr.'s 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Virginia Dem admits system ‘failure’ after illegal immigrant accused in landlord killing escapes to TajikistanNorthern Virginia Democrats Donald Beyer and Suhas Subramanyam faced questions after a Tajik national fled a mental health institute to Dushanbe.
Fox News · Yesterday
Trump Admin Permanently Guts Law 'Designed to Stop Criminals from Laundering Money' After Push From Elon MuskCritics are warning that the Trump administration just made financial crimes a lot easier to commit by permanently gutting a law that prevented criminals from using shell companies to obscure their activities. Elon Musk may benefit.On Tuesday, the Treasury's …
Common Dreams · August 13, 2026
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The New Republic · August 4, 2026
'This is so stupid': Trump reamed for 'crazytown' plan to punish CanadaPresident Donald Trump blindsided economic and geopolitical observers on Monday with his announcement of 50 percent tariffs on a broad range of Canadian goods.This move comes after multiple federal courts have slapped down Trump's attempts to impose worldwide…
Raw Story · July 20, 2026
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