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January 15, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) today hailed the decision by a federal court to block the Trump administration's plan to include a citizenship question on the 2020 decennialcensus.

January 8, 2019

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-New York) issued the following statement after President Donald J. Trump's address to the American people about his proposed border wall along the southern border of the United States.


January 3, 2019

Congresswoman vows to continue fighting for Queens and the nation; calls for end to government shutdown

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) was today sworn into her fourth term in the United States House of Representatives.


December 22, 2018
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) issued the following statement today on President Trump's inability to fund the federal government and avert a partial government shutdown.
"This government shutdown is an embarrassment.

December 7, 2018

Washington, D.C.— Today, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng(D-Queens) responded to the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) request for public comments on its new proposed regulation seeking to punish immigrants who lawfully use public benefits.


December 4, 2018

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) sent a letter to U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen calling for her agency to withdraw its proposed public charge rule for non-compliance with federal law. Under federal law, agencies are required to provide public justifications for any newly proposed policy that would harm families.


December 3, 2018
QUEENS, NY – Today, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) sadly announced the death of Don Capalbi, her longtime staff member who also served as a Queens civic leader.
Capalbi died yesterday at a local hospice facility. He was hospitalized at Long Island Jewish Medical Center last month after sustaining a head injury from a fall.

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.