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September 4, 2019
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), a member of the House Appropriations Committee who has worked to combat to hepatitis, announced today that she secured several important initiatives to increase awareness and research of the silent infection. These items include measures that the Congresswoman attached to a key fiscal year 2020 spending bill that recently passed the House of Representatives.
September 4, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced today that she secured provisions critical to protecting and empowering seniors. The measures were included in key fiscal year 2020 spending bills that recently passed the House of Representatives. They consist of the following items:
September 4, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced today that she secured several provisions critical to protecting the environment. The measures were included across several fiscal year 2020 spending packages that recently passed the House of Representatives. They consist of the following items:
August 29, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) today sent a letter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos urging him to remove recalled and unsafe products, and to implement critical safety reforms, following disturbing reports that items found on the Amazon Marketplace are non-compliant with federal regulations.
"These revelations about Amazon are shocking and deeply troubling," said Meng. "The company must immediately remove items that are unsafe, banned or deceptively labeled, and create a plan to increase transparency and product monitoring.
August 27, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), who has championed menstrual equity issues in Congress, announced today that she has secured even more provisions to make menstrual hygiene products more accessible to women and girls. These measures were included across several fiscal year 2020 spending packages that recently passed the House of Representatives.
August 27, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced today that she has secured a number of important provisions to assist veterans. These measures are items that the Congresswoman attached to several fiscal year 2020 spending bills that recently passed the House of Representatives.
August 27, 2019
WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), a member of the House Appropriations Committee, announced today that she secured several important initiatives that aim to improve the health and wellbeing of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI). These items include measures that the Congresswoman attached to fiscal year 2020 spending bills that recently passed the House of Representatives.
August 23, 2019
QUEENS, NY – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) today issued the following statement on the Trump administration's plan to scrap the Flores Settlement which sets duration and treatment standards for children in detention.
"First President Trump separated immigrant children from their parents. Now he wants to keep innocent migrant kids and families locked up indefinitely.
August 23, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – This afternoon, U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) sent a letter to President Trump calling on him to make the Amazon wildfires a top priority at this weekend's G7 Summit.
In the correspondence, Meng also urged the President to convene a global summit to devise solutions to curb the decimation of the Amazon.
"The Amazon is known as Earth's lungs and the raging wildfires there have been devastating," said Meng.
August 15, 2019
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) and U.S.