Government Oversight & Ethics
More on Government Oversight & Ethics
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) spoke on the House floor in support of the Protecting Our Kids Act, a comprehensive package of gun violence prevention proposals to stop the spread of gun-related crimes and help prevent future mass casualty shootings. The bill passed the House on a bipartisan basis 223-204 and will move to the Senate for consideration.
Rep. Lieu's remarks as prepared:
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) introduced legislation that will help ensure federal prisons are better prepared in the event of a natural disaster or public health emergency. The Correctional Facility Disaster Preparedness Act, which was introduced in the Senate by Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), would protect the health and safety of incarcerated individuals, correctional staff, and other personnel employees during a presidential disaster declaration.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the shootings in Laguna Woods, California and Buffalo, New York this past weekend.
With nuclear tensions rising around the world, particularly in Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine, and nuclear-weapon states coming closer to direct military conflict, Congressman Ted Lieu, '91, believes it's time for America to reevaluate its nuclear launch approval process.
"What happens if Vladimir Putin decides to use a nuclear weapon in Ukraine?" Lieu asked an audience Thursday, May 5, at the Bechtel Conference Center. "What constraints are there on the U.S. president if he decides to use a nuclear weapon in response? The short answer is, there are virtually no constraints."
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) released the following statement in response to media reports, confirmed by Chief Justice John Roberts, of a draft Supreme Court decision overturning a 50-year-old precedent protecting Americans' right to choose what is best for their own bodies and health.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced the introduction of his bill, the Inspector General Notification Act, which would require the U.S. Attorney General (AG) to notify the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General (IG) when data from a covered party – Members of Congress, Congressional staff, judges, and judicial branch employees – is collected. Specifically, Rep.
Torrance has received $1 million in federal funding to aid the city's homeless response, officials announced Monday, April 25.
The money, which came from Congress' recently passed bipartisan spending bill, will help support Torrance's 40-unit temporary housing program — set to open in June at the Civic Center — and city efforts to clean and make improvements at existing homeless encampments. Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, helped secure the federal money.
While the federal government needs a warrant to seize your laptop, it can access revealing details through what lawmakers say is a glaring back door: cloud-stored metadata, the information tucked within files that offers clues about who created them, when and how.
The data may seem innocuous, given that it doesn't reveal the full contents of any given document, video or image. But lawmakers say it can be used to identify key facts in an investigation, such as who was involved, what role they played and when the events took place.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) introduced legislation to require governmental entities to obtain a warrant before requesting that an electronic communications provider disclose a customer's metadata, often referred to as data that describes other data. The Warrant for Metadata Actamends Section 2703 of the Stored Communications Act (SCA), which protects some electronic communications from unauthorized disclosure, to include metadata that is also stored electronically.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland requesting answers on the Department of Justice's use of secrecy orders, which prevent technology companies from informing their customers about government demands for their data. The Members express concern over the threat to Americans' privacy the indefinite secrecy orders present when individuals' personal data is obtained by the government without them ever knowing.