Press Releases

U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens), sponsor of legislation to prohibit the sale of expired baby formula, today criticized Walmart after the retail giant was caught selling formula past its expiration date.

This past June, Meng introduced the Infant Formula Protection Act, a bill that would require stores to stop selling expired baby formula. Although regulations require expiration dates to be placed on formula, there is no federal law that prohibits the sale of the product after it has expired.

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U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) this afternoon marked Equal Pay Day by calling on Congress to close the wage gap that continues to exist between women and men.

“Women in America earn only 77 cents for every dollar earned by men,” said Meng.” This is unacceptable and must change. With females making up about half of the workforce, it well past time for women to receive equal pay for equal work.

Today, Reps. Joe Crowley (NY-14) and Grace Meng (NY-6) released the statement below in response to the agreement reached by UPS and Teamsters Local 804 to reinstate the workers dismissed by UPS last week:

Chief Deputy Whip Peter Roskam (R-IL) and Congresswoman Grace Meng (D-NY), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, today urged a key House panel to increase funding for Israel’s missile defense systems including the Iron Dome, Arrow, Arrow 3 and David's Sling programs.

In a programmatic request to the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, Reps.

U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, announced that she will host a panel discussion in Queens on fostering friendship between the Jewish and Korean-American communities.

The event, entitled “Jewish and Korean-American Intercultural Dialogue,” will take place from 7 to 9 p.m.

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U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) hailed Governor Cuomo’s announcement today that he’s moving forward with directing the Port Authority to address airplane noise over Queens.

Last November, Meng, along with Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) and Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) announced that their work to form an airplane noise community roundtable paid off when Cuomo instructed the Port Authority to form this roundtable and conduct noise studies.