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U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) announced today that Queens College has been awarded a nearly $1 million federal grant for its Hispanic-Serving Institutions STEM Program, an initiative to improve and expand the school’s capacity to service Hispanic and other low-income students.

Last night, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed bipartisan legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) that seeks to combat a widespread telephone scam known as spoofing.

Under the scheme, criminals disguise their caller ID to make it appear that they’re calling from a government agency, financial institution, law enforcement agency or other official entity. They then steal large sums of money from those they call by tricking them into wiring cash or providing personal information such as Social Security or bank account numbers.

U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) today wrote to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Robert M. Califf urging him to remove potentially harmful colorants from feminine hygiene cosmetics.

Presently, the FDA considers feminine hygiene cosmetics – such as feminine washes – to be “externally applied” products, a designation which allows manufacturers to include colorants that are only approved for external use. But since most women use feminine hygiene cosmetics internally, they risk suffering from negative health effects that the colorants may cause.

Several provisions authored by U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY) that aim to assist veterans were signed into law this afternoon by President Obama.

Meng’s provisions – part of the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations legislation – were attached to the stop-gap spending bill that the President signed to avert a government shutdown. Her measures include: