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Civil Rights and Social Justice

July 7, 2016
Opinion: Op-Eds

https://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/judicial/286836-money-bail-public-safety-fail

Sometimes dollars and cents are a matter of life and death. Whether or not you can afford bail is one of those cases.

Issues: Civil Rights and Social Justice

July 5, 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement regarding the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on anti-LGBT legislation, H.R. 2802, the First Amendment Defense Act.


June 30, 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

LOS ANGELES - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement regarding the Department of Defense’s decision to reverse its policy that barred transgender individuals from serving openly in the U.S. military.


June 30, 2016

Terrorism is once again in the headlines with the suicide-bomber attack at the Istanbul airport late Tuesday that killed 41 and wounded 239 others.

U.S. officials believe the attack was the work of ISIS, though no group has yet taken responsibility.


June 29, 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TOMORROW:
MEDIA ADVISORY: REP. LIEU TO HOLD CONVERSATION WITH COMMUNITY LEADERS CALLING FOR ACTION ON GUN SAFETY LEGISLATION


June 22, 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Washington - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement in light of a sit-in by Democrats on the House Floor today to demand a vote on legislation to address gun violence in America.


June 17, 2016

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ICYMI: REP. LIEU CALLS FOR GUN VIOLENCE SOLUTIONS - “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH”

Online, Rep. Lieu calls for an end to gun violence and urges his House colleagues to finally stand up to the NRA


June 16, 2016

A Chinese national is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday in federal court in White Plains, New York, on a six-count indictment that accuses him of stealing computer source code from his employer to benefit himself and the Chinese government.


June 7, 2016

When Jeysson Minota bailed out of jail, he didn’t know within a week that he would end up on a respirator with a collapsed lung in the Intensive Care Unit at the Valley Medical Center. In jail, he didn’t know that the pain in his chest shortening his breath was actually a growing mass that was stretching his sternum, tearing wires inside of him from a previous operation.