Washington, D.C. – Congressman James Walkinshaw (D-VA), Congressman Don Beyer (D-VA), House Foreign Affairs Committee Ranking Member Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), and Congresswoman Dina Titus (D-NV) today introduced the Foreign Service Test-Free Reentry Act to help rebuild America’s diplomatic corps by eliminating unnecessary and unprecedented barriers for experienced Foreign Service Officers… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman James Walkinshaw (VA-11) and Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va.) are leading a congressional effort demanding answers from President Trump over the implementation of Schedule Policy/Career (Schedule P/C), a sweeping policy that strips civil service protections from thousands of career federal employees and could reshape the federal workforce around political loyalty… Read more »
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner and Tim Kaine (both D-VA), along with Reps. James R. Walkinshaw (VA-11), Bobby Scott (VA-03), Jennifer McClellan (VA-04), Eugene Vindman (VA-07), Don Beyer (VA-08), and Suhas Subramanyam (VA-10) sent a letter to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) requesting a 30-day extension to the public comment period for BOEM’s Request for… Read more »
Washington, D.C. - Congressman James R. Walkinshaw (VA-11) released the following statement.
"The FY2027 National Security, Department of State, and Related Programs Appropriations Act is legislation that should fund U.S. humanitarian, diplomatic, and democracy programs globally, including peacekeeping missions, cultural exchanges, civil society organizations, and efforts to… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Representative James R. Walkinshaw (VA-11), a Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, joined Representatives Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Immigration, Integrity, Security, and Enforcement, Sylvia Garcia (TX-29), Chellie Pingree (ME-01), Jamie Raskin (MD-08), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Committee, and Bennie G.… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Congressman James R. Walkinshaw's (VA-11) bipartisan legislation to name a United States Postal Service facility in Fairfax, Virginia in honor of the late Congressman Gerald E. "Gerry" Connolly, whose decades of public service transformed Northern Virginia and inspired generations of public servants.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 8535, the bipartisan Measuring Illicit Fentanyl Trafficking Act, marking Congressman James Walkinshaw's (VA-11) first bill to pass the House. The legislation strengthens the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) efforts to stop illicit fentanyl before it reaches American communities by improving coordination,… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Representatives James Walkinshaw (D-VA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Jamie Raskin (D-MD), and Herb Conaway (D-NJ) joined the bipartisan grassroots network Alliance 4 American Leadership at the Capitol on Thursday, demanding that the administration release billions of dollars in foreign assistance that Congress approved and the President signed into… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman James R. Walkinshaw (VA-11), a Member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, and Congressman Don Bacon (NE-02) today introduced the bipartisan Cybersecurity Logging Enforcement and Accountability Reporting (CLEAR) Act, legislation requiring the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to report to Congress on the gaps preventing the Department from fully… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, on the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Congressman James R. Walkinshaw (VA-11) introduced the Federal Workforce Reproductive Rights Protection Act, legislation to protect federal employees and their families from being forced to choose between their careers and access to lawful reproductive health… Read more »
