Cybersecurity and Technology
Bicameral legislation would help consumers protect their connected-homes and devices from growing cyber threats
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the House passed H.R.1, the For The People Act, an anti-corruption package aimed at restoring integrity to government by making it easier to vote and ensuring government serves the public interest.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after President Joeseph R. Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn into office.
Judiciary Committee Members: "We cannot begin to heal the soul of this country without first delivering swift justice to all its enemies – foreign and domestic"
WASHINGTON – U.S. Congressmen Ted Lieu (CA-33), David N. Cicilline (RI-01), and Jamie Raskin (MD-08) introduced an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump this morning. The impeachment resolution is sponsored by Cicilline, with Lieu and Raskin serving as the two lead co-sponsors. It is also co-sponsored by another 211 members of the U.S. House.
A bipartisan group of senators is calling on the heads of the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to brief them on the "size, scope, and details" of how a hacking campaign breached multiple agencies via a software widely used throughout the federal government.
"The scope of this hacking operation is alarming and demonstrates what we already know: Russia is not our ally and Vladimir Putin is not our friend. Cybersecurity is a national security imperative. The U.S. Government needs to be more proactive in fending off cyberattacks and protecting sensitive information from foreign actors.
LOS ANGELES - On Thursday, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) hosted California's 33rd Congressional district's fifth-annual Congressional App Challenge. This year's reception was hosted virtually, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Sixteen students from ten high schools submitted eleven apps for this year's competition.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D – Los Angeles County) issued the following statement announcing a nearly $1.4 million grant awarded to the Los Angeles Area Aerospace Ventures Accelerator Enhancement Project through the Economic Development Administration's (EDA) 2020 Build to Scale (B2S) Venture Challenge.
When Barack Obama became the first US president to visit Hiroshima in 2016, he stated: "Technological progress without an equivalent progress in human institutions can doom us." Those words ring true today. At the 75th anniversaries of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, we stand in another moment of global chaos and profound loss.
WASHINGTON - Last week, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-CA) sent a letter to Attorney General William Barr requesting an explanation as to whether the DOJ had authorized mass serveillance of Black Lives Matter protesters. The Members request clarity on whether powerful surveillance technologies such as cell-site simulators were being deployed against protesters.
In the letter, the Members write:
Dear Attorney General Barr: