Press Releases
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Washington – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement regarding the news that hackers have used the SS7 vulnerability in the global mobile network to drain bank customer accounts.
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Washington – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement regarding the news that controversial Trump Administration staffer Sebastian Gorka will be leaving his post at the White House.
"Remember that time Presidents Obama, Bush and Clinton had someone with deep ties to the anti-Semitic far-right serve on their senior staff? You can't? Neither can I."
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Washington – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement following the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of a challenge to the constitutionality of the state of California's law banning so-called "gay conversion therapy." Mr. Lieu authored the CA ban on conversion therapy in 2012.
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Washington – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement regarding the disturbing and provocative moves recently made by the Trump Administration regarding North Korea.
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Washington – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement regarding President Trump's Executive Order that directs the Department of Interior (DOI) to review the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management's current 2017-2022 five-year oil and gas leasing plan. Under this executive order, the DOI will consider all areas of the Outer Continental Shelf for oil and gas leases.
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Washington – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement regarding President Trump's proposed tax plan.
"I can explain in one word why the Trump tax plan and Trumpcare are both disasters: math. No matter how hard the President and Republicans spin it, 2 + 2 will never equal 5."
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Washington – Today, Congressman Lieu and 68 Members of Congress introduced the Therapeutic Fraud Prevention Act of 2017 to stop so-called "conversion therapy." Conversion therapy falsely purports to change an individual's sexual orientation. It is wholly ineffective and causes serious harm to those subjected to it.
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Los Angeles – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement regarding Yom Hashoah Ve Hagevurah – the Day of the Holocaust and the Heroism:
"Today, we mark Yom Hashoah Ve Hagevurah—the Day of the Holocaust and the Heroism. We remember the darkest chapter of our history to instill its lessons on the next generation and honor those who resisted the Nazis' mission of hate.
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Washington – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement regarding recent escalating tensions with North Korea:
"Rather than putting forward a comprehensive strategy that includes a serious diplomatic effort, the Trump Administration is reacting to Pyongyang's provocative behavior by ratcheting up tensions. The Trump Administration's escalating moves and statements put American allies and American troops at serious risk."
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Washington – A group of House Democrats led by Rep. Don Beyer (D-VA) today wrote to the FBI and Office of Personnel Management (OPM) requesting that they suspend White House Senior Advisor and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner's security clearance, citing his admission that he "omitted" required details about meetings with foreign officials from an FBI questionnaire.