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May 7, 2025

House Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) joins Meet the Press NOW to defend his party's strategy to oppose Republicans' proposed budget bill and to block President Trump's agenda.


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May 6, 2025

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), Congresswoman Sara Jacobs (D-CA), Congresswoman Hillary Scholten (D-MI), Congressman Maxwell Frost (D-FL), and Congressman Deborah Ross (D-NC) reintroduced the Reproductive Data Privacy and Protection Act. This legislation would prevent law enforcement from improperly surveilling women receiving reproductive health care, including preventing access to health messaging apps, period trackers, and geolocation data.


May 6, 2025

When President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social on Sunday that he wanted to tax foreign made films, it caught California Democrats off guard.


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May 5, 2025

WASHINGTON  - On Saturday, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) hosted his congressional district’s eleventh-annual reception for the Congressional Art Competition at the Otis College of Art and Design. Students from 19 different high schools submitted 185 pieces of art for this year’s competition. These submissions included 45 photographs, 65 paintings, 38 drawings, 19 mixed-media pieces, and 18 other pieces that included computer-generated art.

Issues: Local Issues

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May 2, 2025

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Ken Calvert (R-CA) reintroduced a resolution to establish May 2 as National Space Day. The resolution recognizes the aerospace community’s significant positive impact on the scientific and economic development of the United States. 


May 1, 2025

House Republicans on Wednesday killed a measure that would have stopped ICE from being able to deport or detain U.S. citizens. The measure was originally an amendment introduced by Representative Pamila Jayapal to President Trump’s massive budget bill.

Issues: Immigration

April 23, 2025

More than three months after wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles County, California’s request for nearly $40 billion in federal aid to help the recovery has stalled in Washington, largely because Republicans insist on tying conditions to the assistance.

A Spectrum News analysis of major natural disasters over the last 20 years shows that the delay in providing disaster aid for California this year is a historical outlier when it comes to the typical federal response time for providing funds to impacted regions.


April 21, 2025

California lawmakers Monday announced the reintroduction of the Housing for All Act to address homelessness and the affordable housing crises in the state and across the nation.

The legislation, backed by Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla and Reps. Ted Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara), would invest in proven housing strategies and provide historic federal funding to prevent homelessness, officials said.


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April 10, 2025

WASHINGTON Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the release of Ksenia Karelina, a L.A. resident and U.S. Citizen unjustly held in Russia. 


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April 7, 2025

WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Congressman Donald Beyer (D-VA) and Congressman Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) reintroduced the Protecting Data at the Border Act, which would require law enforcement to obtain a warrant before searching an American’s laptop and phone at a port of entry.