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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.
Residents from Bayside, Flushing and surrounding neighborhoods have reported daily disruption from roaring, low-flying planes since the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) approved a route change in December 2012 that affected departing LaGuardia Airport traffic.
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.
"It would help create jobs, stimulate our economy and allow businesses to better compete in foreign markets across the globe," said Meng, a member of the House Small Business Committee, in a statement Tuesday.
Today, Reps. Joe Crowley (D-Queens, the Bronx), Vice Chair of the Democratic Caucus, and Grace Meng (D-Queens), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and its Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, announced that in the wake of Nepal's devastating earthquake, they are leading dozens of House members in a letter urging Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson and Secretary of State John Kerry to grant Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to Nepali nationals currently residing in the United States, so that they are not forced to return home to harmful and unsafe conditions.