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Grace Meng
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Grace Meng is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing New York's 6th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she made history as the first Asian American woman elected to Congress. Throughout her tenure, Meng has focused on various issues, including education, healthcare, and public media funding. She has been an advocate for local stations and has expressed concerns about the impact of federal funding cuts on public media infrastructure.
I am pleased to transmit public comments from my constituents of New York's Sixth Congressional District in response to the March 17th, 2022, subcommittee hearing on aviation noise.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today in favor of H.R. 3967, Honoring our PACT Act, authored by my friend and esteemed colleague, Chairman Takano. This important bill includes the text of my bill, the Mark Takai Atomic Veterans Healthcare Parity Act…
We need to ensure that our communities are resilient to meet the challenges ahead.
We not only need a Green New Deal. We need a Green New Deal for our public schools, our transportation system. And like Senator Ramos said, our sewage system.
Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak in favor of H.R. 826, the Divided Families Reunification Act, a bill I authored to raise the voices of families who have been separated for decades both across the DMZ and across the Pacific Ocean. I want…
Madam Speaker, for over a year, against the backdrop of a raging COVID-19 virus and an economic crisis, Asian Americans have been fighting an additional pandemic: the virus of hate and bigotry. Over 6,600 incidents of physical, verbal, and…
We want to make sure, as with any public health crisis like gun violence, that we are having a more accurate and complete set of data to figure out how we can better target and address this problem.
We are thrilled that the legislation has passed and it is one of many steps that we will have to take towards addressing this serious issue.
We want local law enforcement to establish online reporting in multiple languages, for example.
We need to make sure that our kids are understanding a more complete picture of what Asian-American history looks like.





