Local Issues
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Congressman Ken Calvert (R-CA), co-Chairs of the California Aerospace Caucus, issued the following statement in recognition of National Space Day. In April, Reps. Lieu and Calvert introduced a resolution to establish May 3rd as National Space Day.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Congressman Ken Calvert (R-CA), co-Chairs of the California Aerospace Caucus, issued the following statement in recognition of National Space Day. In April, Reps. Lieu and Calvert introduced a resolution to establish May 3rd as National Space Day.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement in relation to recent violent incidents on college campuses.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), Congresswoman Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), Congressman Kevin Mullin (D-CA), and Congressman Jonathan Jackson (D-IL) announced the introduction of the Prevent Homelessness Act, a bill that provides increased funding to prevent renters and homeowners from losing their homes.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced this year’s winners of the Congressional Art Competition following his tenth annual reception for entrants at the Otis College of Art and Design in California’s 36th District. Students representing 19 different high schools across the district submitted 187 pieces of art for this year’s competition.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that he secured $322,500 in federal funding to improve emergency and disaster preparedness efforts in the City of El Segundo. The funding was included in the second Fiscal Year 2024 appropriations package signed into law by President Biden.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it had entered into an Administrative Order on Consent with the City of Los Angeles and LA Sanitation and Environment (LASAN) mandating Hyperion Wastewater Treatment Plant resiliency enhancements. The agreement comes after 17 million gallons of sewage were discharged into the Santa Monica Bay following a catastrophic failure at the plant in 2021.
Nearly $2 million will go toward additional safety features in neighborhoods along Lincoln Blvd. and enhancing two Santa Monica affordable housing programs after Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA 36th District) secured the federal funds, the congressman announced.
“Safety and housing are two key issues that are top of mind for so many of my constituents. I am pleased to have fought for funding for projects that work to address those concerns.” said Rep. Lieu in a statement. “It is an honor to represent Santa Monica in Congress and to bring back funding for each of these projects,”
Hermosa Beach Police Department will receive $963,000 in federal funds for what Police Chief Paul LeBaron describes as a Real Time Crime Center.
“I have had people actually ask me, ‘Where is it going to be?'” LeBaron said in an interview on Tuesday.
The Real Time Crime Center will not be a physical building, but rather a technology platform that LeBaron believes will help police identify suspects quicker, keep officers safer, and help them catch suspects who otherwise may not have been caught.
South Bay cities and nonprofits will benefit from $11 million in federal funds secured by Rep. Ted Lieu’s office, according to a recent announcement.
The money comes from an appropriations bill President Joe Biden signed into law on March 9, with more than a dozen projects in Lieu’s 36th Congressional District benefiting, according to a press release from the representative’s office.