Immigration
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) was elected Vice Chair of the House Democratic Caucus, the number four position in House Democratic Leadership. Congressman Lieu is the first Asian American elected as Vice Chair. He issued the following statement after his colleagues elected him:
Last year, the House Judiciary Subcommittee heard a harrowing, but increasingly common, story of injustice.
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.
Harvard chemistry professor Charles Lieber went on federal trial in Boston Tuesday over whether he misled the U.S. Defense Department and others about his relationship with a Chinese university, testing the government's policing of U.S.-China collaborations after a similar case ended in an acquittal earlier this year.
On Monday, November 15, President Biden signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, H.R. 3684, after it had passed both the U.S. Senate and House with bipartisan support.
WASHINGTON — When Democrats in Congress set out to try to enact President Joe Biden's sweeping legislative agenda, it quickly became apparent that resolving policy differences might be the least of their problems.
The problem was trust.
WASHINGTON - Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement on the inclusion of investments in undocumented essential workers in the Judiciary Committee markup of the budget reconciliation bill.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Congresswoman Jackie Speier (D-CA) urged Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to protect Afghans who worked with U.S. media in light of the U.S. military exit from Afghanistan. Afghan reporters, journalists and fixers worked in concert with U.S.