118th Congress
WASHINGTON – Today, on World Refugee Day, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, were joined by 58 of their House colleagues and 22 of their Senate colleagues in introducing a resolution that reaffirms the United States’ commitment to supporting refugees and displaced persons across the world.
Amid continued criticism over – and legal challenges against – Spotify’s aggressive embrace of bundling, federal lawmakers from both sides of the aisle have reached out to the Copyright Office with “serious questions” over the change.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after the United States Supreme Court unanimously voted to reject a challenge to the abortion pill mifepristone.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement congratulating Dr. Julio Frenk on his appointment as UCLA's new chancellor.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County), Congressman Adam Schiff (D-CA), and Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) sent a letter to the U.S. Copyright Office expressing concerns over Spotify’s new bundle plans and whether they are in accordance with the Music Modernization Act, a law passed by Congress to protect publishers and songwriters.
WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) announced that he submitted 15 requests for Community Project Funding to the House Committee on Appropriations for Fiscal Year 2025.
WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) issued the following statement after former President Donald J. Trump was found guilty on 34 felony charges related to falsifying business records in New York.
"In America, no one is above the law: not the rich, not the powerful, and certainly not any former presidents."
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WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D-Los Angeles County) and Congresswoman Sara Jacobs (D-CA) announced that language to prevent AI from autonomously launching nuclear weapons was included in the Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that recently passed through the House Armed Services Committee.
Scarlett Johansson called out OpenAI this week for mimicking her voice for a new chatbot, underscoring the urgency that many artists feel about regulating artificial intelligence.
But in Congress, taking on AI is starting to resemble wrestling an octopus. It’s so sprawling, it’s hard to know how to begin.
Rep. Ted Lieu announced the allocation of nearly $1 million to create a Quantum Information Science Hub at UCLA after President Joe Biden signed the funding into law in March.
This grant will fund the purchase of a laser used to refine and develop qubits – bits made of subatomic particles that power quantum computers – with the ultimate goal of creating such a computer, according to a press release from Lieu’s office.