Press Releases
November 26, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Reps. Grace Meng (D-NY), a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman Emeritus of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, led a letter to U.S. Agency for International Development Administrator Mark Green urging him to prioritize gender equality and women and girls' empowerment in the Journey to Self-Reliance for partner countries.
October 23, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) sent a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions urging him to recuse himself from any investigation related to Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross lying to Congress.
On October 12, Meng asked Sessions to investigate Rossafter she learned that the secretary lied to her during a recent Appropriations Subcommittee hearing.
October 23, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced today that she has passed several important measures into law to assist veterans. These items include provisions that Meng attached to the Energy and Water, Legislative Branch, and Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act, which was recently signed into law by the President.
October 12, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) sent a letter this evening to U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions asking him to investigate U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross for possible crimes related to making false statements with respect to documents required by law to be submitted to Congress.
October 12, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) secured several measures in the FAA Reauthorization Act that the President recently signed into law, including provisions that seek to mitigate airplane noise over Queens and other communities across the country.
The bill includes Meng's provision that sets a deadline for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to develop new methods of measuring aircraft noise.
October 8, 2018
QUEENS, NY – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) and postal workers from across Queens today protested President Trump's proposal to privatize the United States Postal Service.
Joining Meng in front of her Northeast Queens office in Flushing were local members of the nation's postal unions which include the National Association of Letter Carriers, American Postal Workers Union and National Postal Mail Handlers union. Also attending were the presidents of these local unions and other union officials.
September 27, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last night, the House of Representatives passed a provision sponsored by U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) that would create a ZIP code for Glendale, Queens.
September 14, 2018
QUEENS, NY – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) sent a letter to U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao urging her to eliminate LaGuardia Airport's noisy TNNIS Climb, a controversial flight pattern over Queens that according to a new study negatively impacts the health of borough residents.
The study, "The Trade-Off between Optimizing Flight Patterns and Human Health: A Case Study of Aircraft Noise in Queens, NY, USA," was published in the most recent edition of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
August 24, 2018
QUEENS, NY – With several Queens communities negatively impacted by freight trains hauling waste and construction debris through their neighborhoods, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) introduced legislation that would require covers on all rail cars that transport materials such as trash and debris.
The Train Coverings for Community Safety Act (H.R. 6497) would direct the U.S.
Meng Introduces Proposed Constitutional Amendment to Lower the Voting Age in America to 16 Years Old
August 15, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) announced today that she has introduced legislation in the House of Representatives that would lower the voting age in America to 16 years old.
Meng's measure (H.J. Res. 138) seeks to replace the 26th amendment to the United States Constitution with a new amendment that would allow 16- and 17-year-olds to vote.