Civil Rights and Social Justice
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) spoke on the House floor in support of the Protecting Our Kids Act, a comprehensive package of gun violence prevention proposals to stop the spread of gun-related crimes and help prevent future mass casualty shootings.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) introduced legislation that will help ensure federal prisons are better prepared in the event of a natural disaster or public health emergency.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the shootings in Laguna Woods, California and Buffalo, New York this past weekend.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) released the following statement in response to media reports, confirmed by Chief Justice John Roberts, of a draft Supreme Court decision overturning a 50-year-old precedent protecting Americans' right to choose what is best for their own bodies and health.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced the introduction of his bill, the Inspector General Notification Act, which would require the U.S.
Torrance has received $1 million in federal funding to aid the city's homeless response, officials announced Monday, April 25.
While the federal government needs a warrant to seize your laptop, it can access revealing details through what lawmakers say is a glaring back door: cloud-stored metadata, the information tucked within files that offers clues about who created them, when and how.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) introduced legislation to require governmental entities to obtain a warrant before requesting that an electronic communications provider disclose a customer's metadata, often referred to as data that describes other data.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland requesting answers on the Department of Justice's use of secrecy orders, which prevent technology companies from informing their customers about government demands for their data.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to become the 116th Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. Judge Jackson will be the first Black woman to serve on the Supreme Court.