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April 1, 2022

WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the House passed the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, or MORE Act. If enacted, this bipartisan bill will decriminalize cannabis at the federal level, while enabling states to set their own regulatory policies without threat of federal intervention.


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March 24, 2022

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), Congresswoman Alma Adams, Ph.D. (D-NC), and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) led a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray requesting updates on the ongoing bomb threats made against Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).


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March 24, 2022

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Congressman Warren Davidson (R-OH) introduced the House version of legislation that will require public reporting and notice of the hundreds of thousands of criminal surveillance orders issued by courts each year.


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March 23, 2022

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who sit on the House Judiciary Committee, urged the Department of Justice to investigate potential war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine.


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March 16, 2022

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the Atlanta spa shootings, where a gunman targeted three Asian-owned spas and killed eight people, including six Asian women.


March 16, 2022

Los Angeles-area projects will receive nearly $9.5 million in federal appropriations during fiscal 2022, officials announced on Wednesday, March 16.

The funding was included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, that President Joe Biden signed on Tuesday to fund the rest of the fiscal year.


March 16, 2022

On Tuesday, President Biden signed a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package that includes $2 million to support the City's project to build a mixed-use affordable housing project on the current site of Parking Structure 3.


March 16, 2022

WASHINGTON —

After a decadelong prohibition, congressional earmarks make their return this week, sending more than $760 million in transportation, military, healthcare and other projects to California.


March 15, 2022

SANTA MONICA, CA — President Joe Biden Tuesday signed a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package that includes $2 million to support the city of Santa Monica's project to build a mixed-use affordable housing project on the current site of Parking Structure 3, city officials announced.


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March 15, 2022

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that he secured nearly $2.5 million for two community funding projects in the City of Los Angeles in the Fiscal Year 2022 government spending package signed into law by President Biden.