Ted Lieu on Technology

Expand investment in R&D plus transportation infrastructure

• Extending to students the same low interest rates on their college loans that the federal government currently charges to big banks.
• Protecting Social Security and Medicare and stopping plans to privatize them.
• Raising the federal minimum wage.
• Overhauling the federal government's approach to workforce investment by focusing precious resources for job training in areas where there is a pathway to a good, high wage job.
• Expanding investment in research and development to directly help job growth around Silicon Beach and UCLA.
• Expanding job creation by investing in infrastructure and improving our transportation system.

Permanent preservation of Presidential social media accounts.

A BILL to require the preservation of Presidential social media accounts. This Act may be cited as the "Communications Over Various Feeds Electronically For Engagement Act of 2017" or the "COVFEFE Act of 2017".

• Requirement for preservation of social media accounts.
• Include "social media" with "films" and other media to be preserved.
• Include any personal and official social media account.
• Define the term 'social media' as "any form of electronic communication (such as a website for social networking and microblogging) through which users create an online community to share information, ideas, personal messages, and other content (such as videos)."

MSN.com explanation: @realDonaldTrump tweeted at 12:06 a.m.: "Despite the constant negative press covfefe". The tweet stood alone -- nothing before it, or after it. Trump deleted the tweet at some point in the 5 a.m. hour, but #covfefe is now a trending hashtag on Twitter. Most people took the "covfefe" to be a typo, although Press Secretary Sean Spicer told the media that the term was used intentionally: "The president and a small group of people know exactly what he meant," he said. Presidential records must be preserved, according to the Presidential Records Act, which would make it potentially illegal for the president to delete tweets. Spicer confirmed they should be taken as official presidential statements: "The president is president of the United States so they are considered official statements by the president of the United States," he said.