Press Releases
December 3, 2014
U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) today issued the following statement on the grand jury's decision in the Eric Garner case:
"Our city is hurting today. The death of Eric Garner is a terrible tragedy that has stirred painful and powerful emotions throughout New York and the nation, and as a parent, I cannot imagine what his family is going through.
December 1, 2014
U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) announced today 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 the Congresswoman intervened with the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) in Washington, D.C.
Earlier this year, the DOE had placed Bramson ORT under heightened cash monitoring, which requires that a school submit additional documentation before financial aid funds are made available to it.
November 20, 2014
U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) tonight welcomed President Obama's use of executive action to protect millions of immigrants from deportation, just one week after she signed a letter to the President asking him to do so.
Issues:Immigration
November 20, 2014
Congresswoman seeks answers about why summonses were tossed out
November 18, 2014
U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, today released the following statement on the terrorist attack at a Jerusalem synagogue:
"I am horrified and appalled by the barbaric murders of innocent civilians - which included three Americans - who were killed while praying at a synagogue in Jerusalem, and I denounce this unconscionable and cowardly attack in the strongest possible terms.
This brutal crime was pure evil.
November 7, 2014
U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) today issued the following statement on the New York State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) dismissing tickets against the driver who struck and killed three-year-old Allison Liao in Flushing, Queens last year.
"After watching the video of this tragedy, I find the decision to dismiss these tickets very troubling. As the mother of young children, I cannot imagine what the Liaos went through last year, and I cannot imagine what they're going through now. This accident was a horrible tragedy and the driver must be held accountable.
November 6, 2014
Approximately 12,000 Chinese immigrant laborers helped build the railroad from 1865 to 1869 which connected the nation from coast-to-coast.
October 31, 2014
U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens), State Senator Toby Ann Stavisky (D-Queens), Assemblyman Ron Kim (D-Queens) and Councilman Peter Koo (D-Queens) today received answers to their letter asking for an update on the status of planned improvements to the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) station in Flushing.
In the response to the four lawmakers, LIRR President Patrick Nowakowski said that progress continues to be made on the design and property acquisition for the project. Construction is set to begin late next year.
October 6, 2014
U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) announced today that she will hold her first "U.S. Service Academy Information Forum" for high school students interested in attending the nation's prestigious service academies. The freshman Congresswoman had scheduled her first academy forum in October of last year, but the event had to be cancelled due to the 2013 shutdown of the federal government.
October 2, 2014
Money awarded as Domestic Violence Awareness Month begins