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Dear neighbor,
It is now the third week of the Republican government shutdown. I joined my fellow House Democrats back in D.C. to work on behalf of the American people, fight to lower costs, and save healthcare.
Where were Republicans? On vacation.
Ahead of the U.S. government entering its third week of shutdown — and with most House Republicans at home after Speaker Mike Johnson sent members of the body back to their states — two Democratic lawmakers decided to turn frustration into farce.
Dear neighbor,
We’re in week two of a Republican government shutdown and Republicans have once again cancelled votes and extended their vacations.
This is unacceptable. House Democrats continue to show up for work, fight for the American people, and demand Republicans work with us to prevent health insurance premiums from doubling for millions of Americans.
To make matters worse, Republicans are now threatening to withhold pay from military personnel, who are supposed to be paid next week.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after Donald Trump and House Republicans shut down the federal government.
“Americans are already crushed under the stress of inflation and a weak economy. Now add to that the biggest increase in health insurance costs in 15 years. And where are Republicans? On vacation. Republicans chose to shut the government down instead of saving health care for Americans and voting to release the Epstein files.
Rep. Ted Lieu (Ca.) ripped Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr along with other Democrats at a free speech rally in Los Angeles on Monday.
Just an hour before ABC made the announcement that “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” would return to the airwaves on Tuesday, a group of politicians and Hollywood guild leaders held a press conference and rally in front of the show’s Hollywood studio to urge Disney to bring the show back.
"You are hiding the Epstein files," a steamed Democratic congressman told FBI Director Kash Patel in a routine oversight hearing that periodically devolved into raised-voice bickering and partisan gamesmanship. "You are part of the cover-up."
Rep. Daniel Goldman, from New York, was one of several Democrats who pressed Patel on why President Donald Trump's administration has not released more files related to the sex trafficking investigation into the late financier Jeffrey Epstein.
WASHINGTON – Yesterday, Congressman Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) called into the Julie Mason Show on SiriusXM. They discussed everything from the bipartisan discharge petition to release the full Epstein files, to Trump's deployment of the military to American cities.
Gay California U.S. Rep. Mark Takano, chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus, Rep. Ted Lieu of California, and Oregon U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, all Democrats, led 187 lawmakers on Monday in submitting a friend of the court, or amicus brief, to the U.S. Supreme Court in Chiles v.