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WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) shared the news that the U.S. Department of Transportation will award a $330,432 Enhanced Mobility Innovation (EMI) Grant to the City of Santa Monica's public bus system, Big Blue Bus.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Reese's Law, bipartisan legislation to protect children from ingesting button cell batteries, passed the House. Reese's Law was introduced by Congressman Ted W.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the House passed the bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act for FY23.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), cochair of the California Aerospace Caucus, issued the following statement celebrating the release of the first images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope, the most complex and powerful of its kind, was designed and developed by Northrop Grumman.
Kat Schuster
SANTA MONICA, CA — Santa Monica is about to receive a hefty injection of funds following Gov. Gavin Newsom's signing of a historic $308 billion state budget. The city has secured $16 million for three local projects.
The money will fund new city crosswalks, medians, landscaping, lighting access to safe temporary housing and more through projects led by Assemblymember Richard Bloom.
Jon Temin
America's partners around the world must have a serious case of whiplash. The past 20 years have seen U.S. foreign policy ricochet from unilateralism to "leading from behind," from the isolationism of America First to an attempt to restore our diplomacy and global partnerships all at once.
Chris Galford
U.S. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Ken Calvert (R-CA), co-chairs of the California Aerospace Caucus, sent a letter to U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall III last week, urging for the permanent relocation of the U.S. Space Force (USSF) upcoming Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM) headquarters to either Los Angeles Air Force Base or the Vandenburg Space Force Base.
Jorge Casuso
July 6, 2022 -- The City of Santa Monica will receive $16.3 million in State funding for three projects, with another $1.5 million from the Federal Government likely to follow.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that the nearly $1.4 million in federal funding he requested for two community projects in Venice has been included in the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bill that will be brought up for a vote in the House in the coming weeks.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that the $2.5 million in federal funding he requested for the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing in Los Angeles has been included in the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations bill that will be brought up for a vote in the House in the coming weeks.