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July 28, 2015

Unpaid interns in most states aren't covered by the same workplace discrimination and harassment laws as employees, but some House Democrats are trying to change that.


July 7, 2015

NY1 VIDEO: Please see the NY1 video for my comments about railroad cars filled with trash which are affecting our communities.


June 25, 2015

Public school students are used to having time off on New Year's Day and Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year. Now, the Lunar New Year will enjoy similar status.

"It's an official school holiday, like Christmas," said Mayor Bill de Blasio.


June 10, 2015

Congresswoman Grace Meng has reached out to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to push for an increase in the agency's efforts to control noise pollution from airplanes and helicopters.


May 12, 2015

Rep. Grace Meng (D-N.Y.) is introducing legislation that would assist small businesses that sell their products abroad.

The measure would instruct the Export-Import Bank to increase the amount of financing it provides to small business from 20 to 25 percent.


March 11, 2015

Now that he's closing schools on two Muslim holidays, Mayor de Blasio is being pressured to keep his word and add the Lunar New Year to the list.

Eighteen legislators sent a letter to Hizzoner Monday urging him to include the celebration as a day off on the school calendar.


December 3, 2014

Congressmember Grace Meng (DQueens) announced on December 1 that she has saved a college in Queens from shutting down.

On the brink of closing its doors, Bramson ORT College in Forest Hills was spared after Meng intervened with the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) in Washington, D. C.


November 24, 2014
Quiet Skies Caucus aims to find solutions.

October 28, 2014

Two weeks after the Metropolitan Transportation Authority Capital Program Review Board rejected the agency's five-year budget proposal, three Queens elected officials are pressing for one of the program's smaller items to make it into the final draft of the financial plan.