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March 16, 2022

Los Angeles-area projects will receive nearly $9.5 million in federal appropriations during fiscal 2022, officials announced on Wednesday, March 16.

The funding was included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, that President Joe Biden signed on Tuesday to fund the rest of the fiscal year.


March 16, 2022

On Tuesday, President Biden signed a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package that includes $2 million to support the City's project to build a mixed-use affordable housing project on the current site of Parking Structure 3.


March 16, 2022

WASHINGTON —

After a decadelong prohibition, congressional earmarks make their return this week, sending more than $760 million in transportation, military, healthcare and other projects to California.


March 15, 2022

SANTA MONICA, CA — President Joe Biden Tuesday signed a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package that includes $2 million to support the city of Santa Monica's project to build a mixed-use affordable housing project on the current site of Parking Structure 3, city officials announced.


February 25, 2022

WASHINGTON — Sen. Alex Padilla unveiled a housing and homelessness bill on Friday, legislation that would massively increase federal investments in both traditional and experimental approaches to one of California's most intractable problems.

Issues:Local Issues

February 24, 2022

Russia's military invasion of Ukraine drew a flood of bipartisan fury and condemnation from members of Congress.


February 10, 2022

Representative Ted Lieu (D-CA) headlined a bipartisan letter of nearly 40 members of Congress calling on the Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights (OCR) to end their delays on investigating complaints of antisemitism on college campuses.


February 7, 2022

The Internal Revenue Service has abandoned its plan to require millions of Americans to submit to a facial recognition check through a private company to access their online tax accounts following a


January 27, 2022

Rep. Matt Gaetz is under investigation by the DOJ into connection to alleged corruption, bribery and sex trafficking by the Justice Department. Should he still be allowed to sit on the House Judiciary Committee while the probe is underway? Rep. Ted Lieu joins the show.


January 24, 2022

Jan. 6 select committee Chairman Bennie Thompson confirmed that the committee has spoken with Donald Trump's former attorney general Bill Barr. Rep. Ted Lieu, who was a 2021 House impeachment manager, joins Joy Reid to discuss.