Civil Rights and Social Justice
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.
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.
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.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that he secured $5.8 million for five community funding projects to help address homelessness in Los Angeles County in the Fiscal Year 2022 government funding package signed into law by President Biden.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that he secured over $4.8 million for five community funding projects in West Los Angeles in the Fiscal Year 2022 government funding package signed into law by President Biden.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) is urging the United Nations to address the human rights crisis in Egypt. In a letter, Rep. Lieu and other Members of the Egypt Human Rights Caucus are calling for the UN Human Rights Council to establish a monitoring and reporting mechanism on Egypt.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that his virtual guest for President Joe Biden's State of the Union address will be Elizabeth Benson Forer, the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of Venice Family Clinic.
WASHINGTON – Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) is helping lead efforts to urge the Biden Administration to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Ukrainians during Russia's ongoing invasion. TPS provides protection from deportation for individuals of a country where conditions prevent them from returning.
LOS ANGELES – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Congressman Salud Carbajal (D-CA) announced the introduction of the House companion bill to Senator Alex Padilla's (D-CA) Housing for All Act of 2022, comprehensive legislation that would invest in proven solutions to address critical affordable housing shortages in California and across the country.
Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) headlined a bipartisan letter of nearly 40 members of Congress calling on the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to end their delays on investigating complaints of antisemitism on college campuses.