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May 17, 2019

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement in response to a series of legislative actions from states across the country intended to hinder a woman's right to choose.


May 16, 2019

Washington (CNN)A bipartisan group of US lawmakers sent a letter Thursday to Attorney General William Barr and FBI Director Christopher Wray asking the Department of Justice to investigate allegations of war crimes against renegade Libyan Gen. Khalifa Haftar, who is also an American citizen.


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May 15, 2019

LOS ANGELES – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu announced that his Los Angeles district office has moved. Constituents are welcome to visit our new district office at the following address:

1645 Corinth Ave., Suite 101

Los Angeles, CA 90025

Issues: Local Issues

May 15, 2019

President Trump, who is refusing to cooperate with more than 20 congressional investigations, instructed current and former aides Wednesday to ignore a House committee's request for documents in the latest act of defiance that has prompted Democrats to declare that the nation is facing a constitutional crisis.


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May 13, 2019

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the House passed a $19.1 billion disaster relief bill on Friday. The funding will support communities impacted by natural disasters including those in CA-33 who were devastated by the Woolsey Fire last fall. The bill passed the House with a strong bipartisan majority: 257-150.

Issues: Local Issues

May 9, 2019

Reporting from Washington —

House Democratic leaders are settling in for what they say could be a long, hot summer of legal battles to obtain the full unredacted Mueller report and President Trump's tax returns.

And they are hoping that a slow but deliberate approach — which could last until the 2020 election — will appease both the progressive activists eager for impeachment and moderates leery of trying to remove Trump from office.


May 7, 2019
Opinion: Op-Eds

USA TODAY

Donald Trump's disdain for the law is no secret. Since becoming president, Trump has expended a large amount of energy trying to discredit the FBI, the special counsel, our nation's intelligence agencies, state attorneys general and other law enforcement officials I'm probably missing.

Issues: Committee Work Government Oversight & Ethics

May 7, 2019

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has rejected a congressional request for six years of President Donald Trump's confidential tax returns.

In a May 6 letter to Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Mnuchin wrote: "As you have recognized, the Committee's request is unprecedented, and it presents serious constitutional questions, the resolution of which may have lasting consequences for all taxpayers."


May 3, 2019

WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Congresswoman Kathleen Rice (D-NY) urged the bar associations for Virginia and Washington, D.C. to investigate the conduct of William Barr, Attorney General of the United States. In the letter, Reps. Lieu and Rice, both former prosecutors, call for an ethics investigation into AG Barr following multiple instances where he misled Congress and the public.

In the letter, the Members write:

Dear Mr. Bodie and Mr. Fox:


May 1, 2019

U.S. Representative Ted Lieu of California accused Attorney General William Barr of misleading the public Tuesday, following the news that special counsel Robert Mueller had criticized Barr's summary of the Russia investigation report.

Lieu, a Democrat, accused Barr of misleading Americans with his summary, his April 9 appearance before Congress and his news conference ahead of the release of redacted Mueller report.