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WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) released the following statement after the U.S. House of Representatives voted to condemn a carbon tax:
Nineteen Democratic members of California’s congressional delegation are encouraging their attorney general to continue her investigation into ExxonMobil Corp.’s climate science.
In a letter to Attorney General and Senate candidate Kamala Harris (D), the Democrats said they were “supportive of your investigation” into allegations that Exxon misled the public about what it knew about climate change.
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ICYMI: REP. TED LIEU ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF “AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH”
In collaboration with Participant Media, Congressman Lieu joins in celebrating the 10th anniverary of “An Inconvenient Truth,” a landmark documentary highlighting the serious need to address global warming and climate change
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Los Angeles – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) released the following statement in light of the news that a Citizens United advisory measure is going on the California ballot for the November 2016 election. Mr. Lieu was the original author of the California law that created this advisory measure.
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Washington - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement for the record in opposition to H.R. 4755, the Ozone Standards Implementation Act:
"Mr. Speaker:
I rise today in opposition to H.R. 4775, the Ozone Standards Implementation Act of 2016.
The largest public pension fund in Washington, D.C. has successfully purged its $6.4 billion fund of all direct holdings in fossil fuels, city council members and climate activists announced Monday.
The District of Columbia Retirement Board (DCRB) spent the last few years quietly selling off $6.5 million in oil, natural gas and coal investments, amounting to a mere tenth of 1 percent of the organization's total holdings, but made the public announcement at a press conference on Monday.
When Jeysson Minota bailed out of jail, he didn’t know within a week that he would end up on a respirator with a collapsed lung in the Intensive Care Unit at the Valley Medical Center. In jail, he didn’t know that the pain in his chest shortening his breath was actually a growing mass that was stretching his sternum, tearing wires inside of him from a previous operation.
He just knew, as someone who had made it through open heart surgery five years prior, that he needed medical treatment desperately, and he wasn’t going to get it in the Santa Clara County jail.
"I'm informed that, you think that within 30 minutes the seven of you could make the internet unusable for the entire nation, is that correct?"
That question came from Sen. Fred Thompson (R-Tenn.) on May 19, 1998, while speaking with members of a Cambridge, Massachusetts hacker group known as The L0pht.
"That's correct. Actually one of us with just, a few packets," said Peiter Zatko, who is better known by his hacker pseudonym of Mudge.
WASHINGTON — When North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) signed HB 2 into law in March, with the swish of a pen, he overturned all of the state’s local ordinances that protected lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people from being discriminated against.
But there was another consequence to the sweeping anti-LGBT law: It wiped out local anti-discrimination protections for veterans, too.