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LOS ANGELES - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the City of Los Angeles agreed to pay $20 million to help clean the Santa Monica Bay after the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant spill in 2021.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement commending the Department of Housing and Urban Development for changing HUD-Department of Veteran Affairs Supportive Housing (HUD-VASH) program policies to ensure that veterans who receive disability payments would not be excluded from the program.
LOS ANGELES – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the Biden Administration secured the release of four Americans unjustly held in Russia.
A proposal to expand the Los Angeles County's Board of Supervisors from five to nine received support from two Congressional representatives on Thursday, July 18.
Rep. Judy Chu, who represents the 28th Congressional District, and Rep. Ted Lieu, representing the 36th Congressional District, believe adding members could lead to a special district for the Asian American Pacific Islander community.
LOS ANGELES – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) joined Department of Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg, Mayor Karen Bass, Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove (D-CA), and Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) to discuss how federal support for Los Angeles Metro’s project to remove barriers to transportation will benefit Los Angeles County. The project received $139 million in federal funding that will go towards improving and expanding affordable, reliable, and safe transportation options for people throughout Los Angeles County.
Amid continued criticism over – and legal challenges against – Spotify’s aggressive embrace of bundling, federal lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have reached out to the Copyright Office with “serious questions” over the change.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement congratulating Dr. Julio Frenk on his appointment as UCLA's new chancellor.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA), and Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) sent a letter to the U.S. Copyright Office expressing concerns over Spotify’s new bundle plans and whether they are in accordance with the Music Modernization Act, a law passed by Congress to protect publishers and songwriters.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that he submitted 15 requests for Community Project Funding to the House Committee on Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2025.
Rep. Ted Lieu announced the allocation of nearly $1 million to create a Quantum Information Science Hub at UCLA after President Joe Biden signed the funding into law in March.
This grant will fund the purchase of a laser used to refine and develop qubits – bits made of subatomic particles that power quantum computers – with the ultimate goal of creating such a computer, according to a press release from Lieu’s office.