Don Beyer
Role at the time: United States Representative for Virginia’s 8th district, posting on his official account
Statement summary
Representative Don Beyer said that had the House been allowed to vote on whether to consider impeaching Hegseth, he would have voted yes, and accused Speaker Johnson of sending the House into recess early to avoid that vote.
“For the record, had that vote happened I would have voted YES.”
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.”
Why we used 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.