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National Security and Foreign Affairs

September 7, 2017

Rising tensions on the Korean peninsula, combined with a president who prizes unpredictability, have focused new attention on the little-understood process that a president would follow to order the use of nuclear weapons.


September 1, 2017

Spies and hackers are actively exploiting a backbone of how mobile phones communicate—and telecoms have known about it for 19 years.


August 30, 2017

A Republican congressman from Florida made a special demonstration of his loyalty to President Trump last week by introducing an amendment to protect him from the Russia investigation led by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.


August 30, 2017

WASHINGTON - Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement regarding H.R. 1697, the Israel Anti-Boycott Act of 2017:


August 24, 2017

President Donald Trump won a victory, at least a temporary one, in the simmering crisis on the Korean Peninsula recently when North Korean leader Kim Jong Un backed down on his threats to launch missiles into waters near Guam. The president tweeted that Kim "made a very wise and well reasoned decision.


August 24, 2017

HANDS OFF OUR CYBER DIPLOMATS — Congress is still out on recess and lawmakers are still back in their districts, but we're already seeing rumblings of the legislative cyber debates to come. On Wednesday, six House Democrats moved to block Secretary of State Rex Tillerson from closing the State Department office that coordinates government-wide cyber diplomacy. Rep.


August 22, 2017

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

ICYMI: REP. LIEU'S OP-ED FEATURED IN THE HILL
"N. Korea threat makes work on game-changing missile defense technology a priority"