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WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that coastal Los Angeles County will receive $22,601,025 in Community Project Funding as part of the annual spending bill that passed today. In addition to the funding for community projects, Rep. Lieu also had two bills he authored signed into law: The Driftnet Modernization and Bycatch Reduction Act and the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment Study Act.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Whip, led nine other Members of Congress in calling on the six largest cable companies in the country to expand their AAPI program offerings.
WASHINGTON — Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), Senator Jon Ossoff (D-GA), and Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (D-NY) launched an inquiry with the FBI into its facial recognition policies and practices to ensure that the Bureau respects the freedoms and privacy the First and Fourth Amendments guarantee for Californians and all Americans. In a letter, Rep. Lieu, Sen. Ossoff and Rep.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), along with fellow California Coastal Caucus Co-Chair Julia Brownley (D-CA), led Members in urging the FDA to test fish and shellfish off the coast of southern California for dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, or DDT. In the letter, the Members urged FDA Commissioner Robert Califf to undertake this testing because DDT is possibly carcinogenic and has been found in unhealthy quantities off the coast of California.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA) sent a letter to the Department of Defense (DoD) expressing concern over reports that some high school students were forced into Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corp (JROTC) programs at their schools.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) led a bipartisan letter with 17 colleagues expressing support for the Biden Administration's efforts to remove Iran from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) amid the Iranian government's violent campaign of abuse against women and girls. The CSW is a global intergovernmental body dedicated to promoting gender equity and the empowerment of women, including through encouraging women's political participation.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after staff in his office voted to form a union.
WASHINGTON —Congressman Ted Lieu and Senator Dianne Feinstein (both D-Calif.) today applauded the inclusion of a provision in the defense authorization bill that will allow funds generated by easements at the West LA VA campus to support housing developments for homeless veterans.
Without this provision, funds generated by easements (the use of VA land for non-VA purposes) on the campus go to the U.S. Treasury's general fund rather than to the VA for use on veteran-related activities.
WASHINGTON - Representative Ted Lieu and Senator Dianne Feinstein (both D-Calif.) today introduced a resolution supporting the Biden administration's efforts to establish a global moratorium on destructive anti-satellite missile tests.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the House voted to send the Respect for Marriage Act to President Biden's desk. This landmark legislation takes several key steps to defend marriage equality: officially repealing the bigoted and unconstitutional "Defense of Marriage Act" (DOMA), upholding couples' right to equal protection under federal law and requiring states to recognize valid out-of-state marriages.