Gregory Meeks
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Gregory Weldon Meeks is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for New York's 5th congressional district since 1998. A member of the Democratic Party, Meeks has focused on issues such as economic development, education, and healthcare throughout his tenure. He has been an advocate for oversight and accountability in government, often speaking out on matters related to national security and foreign policy. Meeks has played a significant role in various legislative initiatives and has been involved in discussions regarding the War Powers and congressional oversight.
I don't want the record to indicate that Gregory Meeks stood by and just allowed the kind of questioning and the statements that were just made to go without hearing my strong opposition to those statements.
To go after some other country who has a new democracy, basically an infant, and try to compare it to the democracy of the United States, which still needs a lot of work, to me is like comparing apples to oranges.
Because even in the United States, the Ku Klux Klan identify themselves as Christians and they believe in the Bible.
I know of a group that still exists in America that was responsible for a whole lot of deaths. They are called lynchings. They are called the Ku Klux Klan.
I don't know about the policies but the President has said something else other than what you have said that he's willing to pull out.
The JCPOA, for the limited purpose of which it was agreed upon, is working--that--and so they have extreme concerns about us moving out.
Whatever our disagreement is it will not be in the best interest of the United States if we don't have a strong EU.
The brave people, all constituent peoples, understand what risk there is to this political game of chicken.
Thank you, Chairman Rohrabacher, for calling this hearing and continuing to focus our subcommittee's attentions on the Balkans.
We must honestly rethink the strictures of the Accords and how an immediate fix can lead to better governance in the region.
I am always concerned about diversity and that there's diversity in lending and everybody has an opportunity.
The continued commitment from USAID in regards to Power Africa is extremely important.
I rise this morning because the camera of history is rolling. It is rolling and it is recording. It is recording the fact that the NRA continues to distort the meaning of the Second Amendment, that the NRA continues to incite its members…
For decades, the United States has issued a formal open investment policy statement clearly articulating that it is open for foreign direct investment and recognizes the contributions that these investments bring.
My concern just is that I was thinking if there are enough controls currently to prevent CFIUS from misusing its authority to thwart transactions for reasons that may be loosely associated with national security so for other reasons, and…
43 percent of corporate tax savings will go to buybacks and dividends, which enriches just the top 1 percent.
If you are even thinking about stripping out practice and patterns of discrimination, you are thereby gutting the reason Congress did CRA in the first place.
I believe that in looking at CRA you should take into consideration one's practice and pattern of racial discrimination.
We should not terminate and/or eliminate something because you have a few that are not doing what we want them to do.
I am a firm believer in multilateral organizations--the U.N. being an example, the OAS being that.
So the experience that you came in was nowhere near the experience that the Obama Administration had to deal with when they came in office. Is that not correct?





