Press Releases
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that the National Science Foundation (NSF) will grant nearly $250,000 to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) for a project to improve collaboration between the cognitive science and artificial intelligence fields of study.
LOS ANGELES – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that applications for the 36th Congressional District’s Youth Advisory Council are now open and will be accepted through Friday, July 7, 2023. The Youth Advisory Council provides a unique opportunity for students to meet with a diverse group of peers, discuss issues of importance and consider ways of getting involved locally. The group will work directly with Rep.
LOS ANGELES – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) joined VA Secretary Denis McDonough and Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass at the grand opening of two new supportive housing units at the West Los Angeles VA. Buildings 205 and 208 will provide 120 supportive housing units for unhoused and at-risk veterans and their families. These two new buildings are a part of the VA’s ongoing efforts to open more supportive housing for veterans and follow the opening of a 59-unit building on campus in February.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that he submitted 15 requests for Community Project Funding to the House Committee on Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2024. The projects submitted by Congressman Lieu would serve California’s 36th Congressional District by providing federal funding for infrastructure improvements, emergency preparedness efforts, affordable housing rehabilitation, and more.
WASHINGTON – Today Congressmembers Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), Donald S. Beyer Jr. (D-VA) and Ken Buck (R-CO) introduced the bipartisan Block Nuclear Launch by Autonomous Artificial Intelligence Act, legislation to safeguard the nuclear command and control process from any future change in policy that allows AI to make nuclear launch decisions. Senator Edward J. Markey (D-MA) is introducing companion legislation in the Senate.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) released the following statement commemorating Israel’s 75th Independence Day.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement in light of the recent shootings in Louisville, Kentucky and Washington, D.C., where a combined total of six people were killed and 11 people were injured. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 147 mass shootings so far this year.
“From now on, I will be issuing this quote immediately for all mass shootings.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement on the indictment of former President Donald Trump by a Manhattan grand jury.
"Today is a somber moment for America. Indicting a former President sets a terrible precedent; the only worse precedent is not indicting a former President who committed a crime.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) announced three new lease agreements for the development of 264 additional permanent supportive housing units for homeless veterans at the West LA VA campus. The new buildings are expected to open in 2024 and 2025, and will be “move-in” ready – equipped with furniture and access to amenities including a central community space, a fitness room, onsite management and case workers’ offices and more.