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WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the House passed the Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act, or MORE Act. If enacted, this bipartisan bill will decriminalize cannabis at the federal level, while enabling states to set their own regulatory policies without threat of federal intervention. It takes long overdue steps to address the devastating injustices of the criminalization of cannabis and the vastly disproportionate impact it has had on communities of color.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), Congresswoman Alma Adams, Ph.D. (D-NC), and Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) led a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland and FBI Director Christopher Wray requesting updates on the ongoing bomb threats made against Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Since January 5th, 2022, there has been a wave of bomb threats made against HBCUs, including 14 on February 1st, the first day of Black History Month.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Congressman Warren Davidson (R-OH) introduced the House version of legislation that will require public reporting and notice of the hundreds of thousands of criminal surveillance orders issued by courts each year.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Congressman Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who sit on the House Judiciary Committee, urged the Department of Justice to investigate potential war crimes committed by Russian forces in Ukraine.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement on the one-year anniversary of the Atlanta spa shootings, where a gunman targeted three Asian-owned spas and killed eight people, including six Asian women.
Los Angeles-area projects will receive nearly $9.5 million in federal appropriations during fiscal 2022, officials announced on Wednesday, March 16.
The funding was included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022, that President Joe Biden signed on Tuesday to fund the rest of the fiscal year.
The funding includes $1.5 million, through Rep. Ted Lieu, D-Los Angeles, and Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla, both D-Calif., for Los Angeles' pilot program to have unarmed outreach teams respond to nonviolent 911 calls involving people experiencing homelessness.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Congressman Tom Malinowski (D-NJ) led two separate letters to U.S. Ambassador to India Taranjit Singh Sandhu and U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Dr. Asad Majeed Khan urging their governments to condemn Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The bipartisan letters are in response to both countries' abstention from the UN General Assembly's March 2nd vote, in which 141 countries voted to condemn Russia for its unprovoked and unjustified attack on the sovereign nation of Ukraine.
On Tuesday, President Biden signed a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package that includes $2 million to support the City's project to build a mixed-use affordable housing project on the current site of Parking Structure 3. The funding in the FY 2022 Consolidated Appropriations Act is part of a total of $11 million in Community Project Funding that Congressman Ted Lieu successfully secured for ten projects in his district.
WASHINGTON —
After a decadelong prohibition, congressional earmarks make their return this week, sending more than $760 million in transportation, military, healthcare and other projects to California.
President Biden signed into law a $1.5-trillion government spending bill on Tuesday that includes financing for initiatives specifically written by lawmakers seeking to boost their local universities, roadways or parks with federal dollars. Nearly 500 of the projects will be in California.
SANTA MONICA, CA — President Joe Biden Tuesday signed a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending package that includes $2 million to support the city of Santa Monica's project to build a mixed-use affordable housing project on the current site of Parking Structure 3, city officials announced.