Don Beyer Archives

IRS CEO Frank Bisignano, center, talks with House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith, R-Mo., right, in the Longworth House Office Building on Capitol Hill on March 4, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

House passes two bills to modernize IRS operations

The BARCODE Efficiency Act and the Taxpayer Experience Improvement Act would embrace technology and help the IRS “be an agency more worthy of the taxpayers it serves.”

3 days ago By Matt Bracken

A sign masks the location of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) headquarters building on Aug. 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Photo by J. David Ake/Getty Images)

Lawmakers want FTC to take on ‘black box’ AI foundation models

A new bill from a bipartisan House trio would task the independent agency with establishing requirements for foundation model transparency.

Apr 1, 2026 By Matt Bracken

Elon Musk, Tesla and SpaceX CEO and Senior Advisor to the President, attends a Cabinet meeting at the White House on April 10, 2025 in Washington, DC. President Trump convened a Cabinet meeting a day after announcing a 90-day pause on ‘reciprocal’ tariffs, with the exception of China. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Dozens of lawmakers question DOGE’s use of AI

In a letter to OMB Director Russell Vought, 48 lawmakers highlighted concerns about DOGE's use of unauthorized AI to process government data.

Apr 18, 2025 By Rebecca Heilweil

Bipartisan bill to codify AI research resource at NSF gets reboot in House

Legislation to establish a full-scale NAIRR at the National Science Foundation has been reintroduced in the House.

Apr 2, 2025 By Madison Alder

Sen. Mark Warner and Reps. Don Beyer and Gerry Connolly join MITRE to open a new facility for discovering and managing risks in AI-enabled systems. (MITRE photo)

MITRE launches lab to test federal government AI risks

The new AI Assurance and Discovery Lab in McLean, Virginia, is aimed at helping federal agencies test and evaluate systems that use AI.

Mar 26, 2024 By Madison Alder

Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (House Science Democrats / Flickr)

Democrats call for probe into White House’s cybersecurity practices

Reps. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, Dan Lipinski, D-Ill., and Don Beyer, D-Va., signed and sent a letter to the committee’s Republican leadership requesting a hearing on the…

Feb 10, 2017