113th Congress
March 24, 2014
U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) hailed Governor Cuomo’s announcement today that he’s moving forward with directing the Port Authority to address airplane noise over Queens.
Last November, Meng, along with Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY) and Senators Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) announced that their work to form an airplane noise community roundtable paid off when Cuomo instructed the Port Authority to form this roundtable and conduct noise studies.
March 12, 2014
U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-NY), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, today released the following statement condemning today’s rocket attacks from Gaza:
March 12, 2014
Event to include U.S. Ambassador to Bangladesh Dan Mozena
March 12, 2014
Congresswoman works to obtain visas for victims’ loved ones so they can travel to the borough from China
March 6, 2014
U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) announced today that one her Congressional committees will hold a field hearing in Queens to probe the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) lack of outreach to local small businesses.
The hearing, to be conducted by the House Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce, will be held at Queens College on Tuesday, March 11 at 11 a.m. Meng serves as the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee.
February 28, 2014
Thursday, February 27, 2014, 7:22 PM
Often-unnoticed historic sites in Flushing and Fort Greene would be considered for incorporation as National Park Service sites under two bills backed by Park Service officials at a hearing on Thursday in Washington.
Reps. Grace Meng and Hakeem Jeffries introduced the legislation, which would order studies of the John Bowne House and Old Quaker Meeting House in Flushing, and the Prison Ship Martyrs Monument in Fort Greene Park.
February 27, 2014
Legislation sponsored by U.S. Rep. Grace Meng (D-Queens) that aims to make historic sites in Flushing, Queens part of the National Park Service won support today from the United States Department of the Interior, the agency that oversees federal parkland.
The Congresswoman’s measure would require the Secretary of the Interior to study the viability of the National Park Service acquiring spots associated with the 1657 signing of the Flushing Remonstrance, the document recognized as the forerunner of religious freedom in America.
February 14, 2014
U.S. Reps. Grace Meng (D-NY) and Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) today led a bipartisan group of 72 lawmakers in voicing concern over the inhumane practice of slaughtering non-ambulatory disabled calves (known as “downers”).
February 12, 2014
Congresswoman also authors legislation to help combat the problem