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LOS ANGELES – On Saturday, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) held the 2026 Youth Town Hall and announced that applications for the 36th Congressional District’s Youth Advisory Council are now open and will be accepted through Friday, June 26, 2026. The Youth Advisory Council provides a unique opportunity for students to meet with a diverse group of peers, discuss issues of importance and consider ways of getting involved locally.
Local high school students took the top two spots in Rep. Ted Lieu’s 12th annual Congressional Art Competition.
Hugh Saetia, a junior at Mira Costa High School in Manhattan Beach, took home gold for his piece “Denial,” while Redondo Union High School sophomore Ayla Dowdell came in second with her painting “Weaving of Cultures.”
Elizabeth Le, a senior at West High School in Torrance, finished in third place for “A Child’s Mind.”
Miraleste Intermediate School will receive $2 million in federal funding for infrastructure improvements.
The Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District announced last week that it received the funding through Rep. Ted Lieu’s office.
The funding, the school district’s press release said, came through as part of nearly $14 million in federal funding awarded to 14 projects in California’s 36th Congressional District.
TORRANCE, CA – The City of Torrance in partnership with Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D – Los Angeles County) and the Torrance Police Department hosted a press conference and ceremonial check presentation today recognizing $1,031,000 in federal funding secured for the City’s Public Safety Digital Infrastructure Expansion Project.
WASHINGTON – Last Thursday, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) hosted his congressional district’s twelfth-annual reception for the Congressional Art Competition at the Otis College of Art and Design.
Students from 16 different high schools submitted 135 pieces of art for this year’s competition. These submissions included 35 photographs, 38 paintings, 48 drawings, 9 mixed-media pieces, and 5 other pieces that included computer-generated art. The winner, Hugh Saetia from Mira Costa High School, submitted a piece called “Denial."
WASHINGTON – On Wednesday evening, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) hosted a telephone town hall to talk about his work in Washington and the district and how House Democrats are committed to lowering the cost of living for everyday Americans.
WASHINGTON – Due to the war with Iran, U.S. Reps. Grace Meng (D-NY) and Ted Lieu (D-CA) late today led a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio urging the State Department to help stranded Americans leave the Middle East and return to the United States.
Wayfarers Chapel is in need of a new home in Rancho Palos Verdes.
And in the coming weeks, Rep. Ted Lieu will introduce a bill that would transfer land from the United States Coast Guard to Rancho Palos Verdes to provide a place to rebuild Wayfarers, after the National Historic Landmark was dismantled and put into storage following unprecedented land movement.
On the one-year anniversary of the Southern California wildfires, elected officials from Los Angeles County and across the state renewed their calls for additional federal disaster aid to help communities impacted by the Palisades and Eaton fires continue to recover.
LOS ANGELES – On Friday, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) hosted his congressional district’s 10th annual Congressional App Challenge reception. Twenty-one students from 13 schools submitted 18 apps for this year’s competition.