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WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the House passed the bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act for FY23. The NDAA that passed the House includes bold reforms to address and mitigate civilian harm in military operations, expand support for service members and their families, and increase diversity in the defense and national security space.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) led a bipartisan letter with 38 Members of Congress to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) expressing concern over the management practices of wild horses at the Devil's Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory in California's Modoc National Forest.
Did Supreme Court Justices lie in their confirmation hearings before Congress, and are they subject to impeachment or other redress for doing so? Although none of the Justices Donald Trump nominated would explicitly answer the question of whether they'd overturn Roe v. Wade, and none explicitly promised not to do so, their confirmation hearings were characterized by a lot of assurances that Roe was ‘settled precedent.'
WASHINGTON – Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement on news that Representative Pramila Jayapal and her family were threatened over the weekend by a man now being investigated for committing a hate crime.
In a jointly signed letter, Democratic representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ted Lieu have formally asked the Senate to decide whether Supreme Court justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh lied under oath during their confirmation hearings in 2017 and 2018, respectively.
The letter begins, "We are writing because the legitimacy of the Supreme Court of the United States is at stake."
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), cochair of the California Aerospace Caucus, issued the following statement celebrating the release of the first images from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. The telescope, the most complex and powerful of its kind, was designed and developed by Northrop Grumman.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) urged Senate Leadership to state on the record whether they believe that Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch lied under oath to the Senate Judiciary Committee during their confirmation hearings.
SANTA MONICA, CA — Santa Monica is about to receive a hefty injection of funds following Gov. Gavin Newsom's signing of a historic $308 billion state budget. The city has secured $16 million for three local projects.
The money will fund new city crosswalks, medians, landscaping, lighting access to safe temporary housing and more through projects led by Assemblymember Richard Bloom.
America's partners around the world must have a serious case of whiplash. The past 20 years have seen U.S. foreign policy ricochet from unilateralism to "leading from behind," from the isolationism of America First to an attempt to restore our diplomacy and global partnerships all at once. Foreign policy priorities always shift when the White House changes hands, but these swings are now more pronounced and jeopardize the credibility of U.S. commitments abroad.
U.S. Reps. Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Ken Calvert (R-CA), co-chairs of the California Aerospace Caucus, sent a letter to U.S. Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall III last week, urging for the permanent relocation of the U.S. Space Force (USSF) upcoming Space Training and Readiness Command (STARCOM) headquarters to either Los Angeles Air Force Base or the Vandenburg Space Force Base.