Opinion: Op-Eds
View editorials written by the Representative in various publications.
https://www.dailydot.com/via/congress-encryption-act/
Encryption advocates and national security leaders let out a collective sigh of relief last month when the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Department of Justice abruptly withdrew the legal motion against Apple over a locked iPhone. The hastily crafted lawsuit was a risky gambit to circumvent Congress and set a dangerous legal precedent with an 18th century law to compel U.S. technology companies to undermine their own digital security.
https://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/272266-lieu-and-dinielli-time-to-put-an-end-to-conversion-therapy
Recently, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Human Rights Campaign and National Center for Lesbian Rights filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) urging it to investigate the organization People Can Change.
As military veterans, we both understand the critical role medics play on the battlefield. However, the education that these medics receive today is outdated, inhumane and in serious need of modernization.
https://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/259192-the-harm-exxon-mobil-has-done
It may be hard to accept, but a single company may have set back all of humanity.
Had Exxon Mobil listened to its own scientists rather than spread disinformation on climate change, the world might not have wasted three crucial decades during which global warming went from a prediction to a fact.
https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/03/opinions/lieu-evans-global-education/
This year, almost 60 million primary school-age children will have no access to school. While the world has made progress to get more kids to school since 2000, the severe lack of financing for global education continues to waste global talent and inflicts a lifelong sentence of poverty for those without an education.
https://thehill.com/opinion/op-ed/239706-congress-must-tackle-climate-change-now
In a modern society, all of us deal with a thousand different issues. But there is one issue that can kill humanity as a species: climate change.
On the first day of the 114th Congress, the House of Representatives enacted a budgetary rule change that could radically alter our nation’s budgets.