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October 19, 2017 Press Release

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WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of gene therapy for certain types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

October 10, 2017 Press Release

WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement on Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt’s decision to repeal the Clean Power Plan. 

 

October 4, 2017 Press Release
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) joined Reps. Jeffries (D-NY), Collins (R-NY), Chu (D-CA), and Smith (R-TX) to establish an alternative forum – the Small Claims Board – in the U.S. Copyright Office to resolve infringement claims. The Board would help millions of creators enforce ownership of their intellectual property in situations that are too cost prohibitive to pursue in federal court but have devastating effects on their livelihoods.
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September 29, 2017 Press Release

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WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement on the resignation of Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price.

September 29, 2017 Press Release
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) sent a letter to Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Elaine Duke asking her to delay a newly-proposed rule updating the Department’s electronic immigration system until Congress is provided more details. As a naturalized citizen, Mr. Lieu is alarmed that this broad-stroke policy to collect the social media information of anyone who has immigrated to the United States, regardless of status, could have massive privacy and constitutional implications.
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In The News

June 15, 2017 In The News
June 15, 2017 In The News

One of President Trump’s most vocal critics in the House questioned Thursday whether the president was aware of a deal to sell Qatar up to 36 F-15 fighter jets.

June 15, 2017 In The News

Rep. Ted Lieu on Thursday questioned the U.S. deal to sell F-15 fighter jets to Qatar days after President Trump accused the Persian Gulf country of supporting terrorism and supported a blockade against it.

June 15, 2017 In The News

WASHINGTON — U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the aisle laid bare their suspicions about U.S. arms sales to Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Lebanon over the countries’ supposed links to terror on Thursday, perhaps signaling choppy waters in the alliances.

June 15, 2017 In The News

One month after the glob­al “Wan­naC­ry” ransom­ware at­tack hit com­puter sys­tems in over 150 coun­tries and tem­por­ar­ily crippled the Brit­ish health care sys­tem, cy­ber­se­cur­ity ex­perts warned law­makers that busi­ness and gov­ern­ment net­works in that United States only nar­rowly avoided a sim­il­ar fate.

June 14, 2017 In The News

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) hit back at the Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel for dismissing a report that President Trump is under investigation for obstruction of justice.

McDaniel responded to a Washington Post report Wednesday that special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating Trump for obstruction of justice, saying that there's "no proof."

June 13, 2017 In The News

Democratic leaders are ramping up the pressure on Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) and other lawmakers to abandon efforts to force an impeachment vote on President Trump.

June 13, 2017 In The News
June 12, 2017 In The News

He’s only a few months into his presidency, but it’s still safe to say that no other president has used social media in the same way that Donald Trump has. As a result, an Illinois lawmaker is making an effort to ensure that President Trump and his successors are held accountable for what they post on the internet.

June 12, 2017 In The News

In a series of tweets, Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) mocked video that emerged Monday from President Trump’s Cabinet meeting in which each department secretary offered praise for the president.

"Dear Great Leader [Donald Trump]: Your golf game is godlike, your wit, Shakespearean and your tweets nourish people like manna from heaven,” Lieu wrote.

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