Press Releases
QUEENS, NY – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) announced today that $900,000 in federal funds has been awarded to two key immigration advocacy organizations in Queens: Women for Afghan Women in Fresh Meadows and the Emerald Isle Immigration Center in Woodside. Both organizations each received $450,000.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Reps. Grace Meng (D-NY) and María Elvira Salazar (R-FL) reintroduced a bipartisan bill in the House of Representatives to help increase federal support for female entrepreneurs and women-owned businesses. The legislation was also reintroduced in the Senate by Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL).
The Interagency Committee on Women’s Business Enterprise Act would reauthorize the Interagency Committee on Women’s Business Enterprise (ICWBE) by making sure a chairperson is appointed to operate the panel.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Toady U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) announced the introduction of the Robin Danielson Menstrual Product and Intimate Care Product Safety Act of 2023. The bill requires the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study the make up of menstrual and intimate care products, increasing research into fragrance ingredients, colorants, dyes, and the potential impacts they may have on consumers.
QUEENS, NEW – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) issued the following statement on the attack of a Queens Sikh resident. The assault is being investigated as a hate crime by the NYPD Hate Crimes Unit.
“Over the past few days, we have seen a devastating up-tick in discrimination and violence against religious minorities that have now hit our home here in Queens. I was horrified to learn that one of our young residents, who was going about their day on a MTA bus, was a victim of a verbal and physical assault that left them bleeding.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, today thanked the State Department and President Biden for agreeing to arrange charter flights to help U.S. citizens leave Israel.
Since the unprecedented, heinous attack by Hamas, Meng has spearheaded two letters to Secretary of State Antony Blinken asking him to use all resources at the Department’s disposal to help Americans seeking to return from Israel, including the use of charter flights.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Reps. Grace Meng (D-NY) and Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY) led a bipartisan letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging the State Department to use all tools at its disposal help get Americans out of Israel and back home to the United States.
QUEENS, NY – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, today called on the State Department to help get her constituents out of Israel and back home to Queens.
QUEENS, NY – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, this morning issued the following statement on the attack on Israel.
QUEENS, NY – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens), New York’s senior member of the House Appropriations Committee – which funds the activities of the federal government – announced today that Queens College has been awarded $1 million in federal funding to help prepare students for careers in wastewater epidemiology, an emerging technology that can provide an early warning and insight into future pandemics.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) issued the following statement on the vote to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House of Representatives.
“Since the earliest days of the 118th Congress, we have seen dysfunction, chaos, and disarray from House Republicans’ attempt to govern The People’s House. From taking four days and 15 ballots to elect a Speaker, to nearly shutting the government down with only hours to spare, this institution has become paralyzed due to demands from the far-right.