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South Bay Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Torrance, will be appointed to the House Budget Committee, which addresses Social Security and Medicare funding and other fiscal matters, his office announced.
"I am thrilled to be appointed to such a crucial committee where I can put my prior budget and legislative experience to work to help all Americans," Lieu said in a statement. "In California — the eighth largest economy in the world — we put our fiscal house in order by investing in core priorities instead of giving tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi will announce new committee assignments Friday for nearly three dozen Democrats.
The panel assignments will serve to put younger, more newly elected Democrats on 10 policy committees.
It's time again for Take Five, when HOH talks with a member of Congress about topics relatively unrelated to legislative work.
This week, Rep.-elect Ted Lieu, D-Calif., House Democrats' freshman class president, talks about his turbo technology, hotel points and celebrities in prison.
Q. What was your first car? Any great memories of it?
A. It was a Ford Thunderbird Turbo. It was a black and … the inside was red, and it looked really cool.