Don Beyer: “had that vote happened I would have voted YES”
United States Representative for Virginia’s 8th district, posting on his official account
“For the record, had that vote happened I would have voted YES.”
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Retrieved in full from the Bluesky public API, which returns the complete post text and a precise timestamp. Secondary aggregators carried only a truncated fragment beginning mid-sentence at “afraid to let the House vote.”
Before the quotation
Posted the day after House leadership cancelled the final day of votes and sent members into a seven-week recess without acting on Massie’s privileged resolution.
After the quotation
Beyer frames the recess as avoidance rather than scheduling: he says Johnson acted “because he was afraid to let the House vote.” No vote on the resolution had been held as of September 18.
How this statement is classified
Case context: Should Pete Hegseth be impeached?
The label describes this statement’s response within the context above.
Why this label?
Relative to the case’s fixed reference point -- whether the House should impeach Hegseth -- Beyer states plainly how he would have voted, which is a direct answer to the question the case asks rather than a judgement about Hegseth’s conduct in general. This is what separates him from Senator Tillis, recorded here as mixed_or_conditional: Tillis wants Hegseth gone but declines to endorse the impeachment route, while Beyer commits to the vote itself.
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