Ted Lieu
Democrat · CA-36 · U.S. House
CA-36 — U.S. House
Safe D 99%Ted Lieu is on the ballot. Ted Lieu vs. Houston Brignano. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Ted Win-Ping Lieu is an American lawyer and politician. He is a member of the Democratic Party and has represented California's 36th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives since 2023. He represented the 33rd congressional district from 2015 to 2023. The district includes South Bay and Westside regions of Los Angeles, as well as Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, the Palos Verdes Peninsula, and Beach Cities.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 11.7 years
- First took office
- 2015 (6 terms)
- Seniority
- 131 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 57
- House Democratic Caucus Vice Chair · 2025–present
- Manhattan Beach, CA · 310-321-7664
- Los Angeles, CA · 323-651-1040
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $1.4M – $6.2M
- Liabilities
- $100k – $250k
- Net worth
- $1.2M – $6.1M
- Since 2019
- +$457k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 27 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Ted Lieu's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Ted Lieu (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Lieusits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 95 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Committees
- House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 53 members
- House Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 44 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Lieu's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
California's Governor Wants Worker Protections from AI. But FSF Thinks Kill Switches are 'Dangerous Precedent'The Guardian reports that California governor Gavin Newsom signed laws on Wednesday "aimed at protecting California workers from the threats of artificial intelligence , including potential job losses and workplace surveillance." The laws ban employers from u…
Slashdot.org · October 3, 2026
'Stand With the People': Progressive Caucus Leader Calls on All Democrats to Reject AI Billionaire CashThe chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus on Wednesday urged all Democrats to reject campaign cash from billionaires whose wealth stems from the artificial intelligence industry, following news that the president of OpenAI abandoned plans to donate mi…
Common Dreams · October 1, 2026
MAGA schooled as Dem launches public war on sleeping Trump: 'Your facts are wrong'Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA) fired a barrage of near-identical replies to MAGA accounts that defended Secretary of State Marco Rubio Monday, all built around a single argument: President Donald Trump is not the hardest-working president in history.The California Demo…
Raw Story · September 29, 2026
Dems urge tech CEOs to send 'rogue agents' reportsDemocratic House representatives Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey, Valerie Foushee of North Carolina, and Ted Lieu of California called on the CEOs of OpenAI, Anthropic PBC, Google LLC, Meta Platforms In...
Biztoc.com · September 29, 2026
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