Government Oversight & Ethics
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) announced that a number of his priorities to help veterans in Los Angeles and around the country were included in the 2022 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, which was signed into law by President Biden last week.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressmen Ted W. Lieu (D-CA-33) and Jimmy Gomez (D-CA-34) sent a criminal referral to Attorney General Merrick Garland alleging that former President Donald Trump violated the Federal Election Campaign Act and Federal Election Commission regulations.
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.
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).
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.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that he secured $3 million for three community funding projects in South Bay cities in the Fiscal Year 2022 government funding package signed into law by President Biden.