Local Issues
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) and Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) reintroduced their federal ban on LGBTQ conversion therapy. The Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act seeks to ban conversion therapy, a practice where so-called therapists fraudulently claim they can ‘cure’ children of their LGBTQ identities.
WASHINGTON - On Saturday, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) hosted his congressional district’s eleventh-annual reception for the Congressional Art Competition at the Otis College of Art and Design. Students from 19 different high schools submitted 185 pieces of art for this year’s competition. These submissions included 45 photographs, 65 paintings, 38 drawings, 19 mixed-media pieces, and 18 other pieces that included computer-generated art.
California lawmakers Monday announced the reintroduction of the Housing for All Act to address homelessness and the affordable housing crises in the state and across the nation.
The legislation, backed by Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla and Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara), would invest in proven housing strategies and provide historic federal funding to prevent homelessness, officials said.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the release of Ksenia Karelina, a L.A. resident and U.S. Citizen unjustly held in Russia.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) joined Congresswoman Laura Friedman (CA-30) and fellow members of the California delegation in urging the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to reverse its decision to not conduct soil testing in areas impacted by the wildfires. Testing the soil for toxic contaminants helps to ensure the safety of residents returning to their communities following the fires.
Local medical and nonprofit officials, and beneficiaries of Medicaid and Medicare met with Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, on Tuesday, March 18, for a roundtable discussion about the potential loss of Medi-Cal health insurance.
The discussion, at Beach Cities Health District in Redondo Beach, came as Repunlicans in Congress are considering significant cuts to funding for Medicare and Medicaid. Tuesday’s event included meeting with Medicaid and Medicare participants and local leaders to learn first-hand how these changes will impact residents.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), Congressman Bob Latta (R-OH), and Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA) introduced Tyler’s Law, bipartisan legislation designed to prevent fentanyl overdoses in the United States.
When President Donald Trump delivers his first address before a joint session of Congress today — where he will lay out his priorities for the year — a handful of firefighters from the greater Los Angeles area will be in attendance to remind the nation of Southern California’s continued need for recovery aid following the January wildfires that swept through L.A. County.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congress Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that his guest for President Donald Trump’s Joint Address to Congress will be Shannon Whaley, Ph.D., Director of Research and Evaluation at PHFE WIC. PHFE WIC, a program of Heluna Health, is the largest nonprofit WIC nutrition network in the United States, serving more than 190,000 low-income individuals each month in Los Angeles, Orange and San Bernardino counties.
A Southern California Democrat blasted President Trump on Thursday for ordering a release of water in the state’s Central Valley, describing the move as both wasteful and destructive to the region.