Press Releases
Washington, D.C. – Today, the Incentivizing New Ventures and Economic Strength Through Capital Formation (INVEST) Act overwhelmingly passed the U.S. House of Representatives, with a vote of 302 to 123.
Issues:Financial ServicesLabor
Washington, D.C. – Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement on the Trump administration’s decision to allow NVIDIA to sell advanced semiconductor chips to China:
Issues:Foreign Affairs
Washington, D.C. – Representatives Gregory W. Meeks and Lois Frankel led Members in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins, and Acting Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development Russell Vought, expressing their opposition to the administration’s reported efforts to effectuate a wholesale transfer of Food for Peace (FFP) funding and responsibilities to USDA.
Issues:Foreign Affairs
Washington, D.C. – Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued a statement condemning President Trump’s newly released national security strategy:
Issues:Foreign Affairs
Washington, D.C. - Representatives Gregory W. Meeks and Joaquin Castro today introduced a resolution condemning President Trump’s pardon of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was convicted and sentenced in an American court to 45 years in federal prison for trafficking drugs into the United States.
Issues:Foreign Affairs
Washington, D.C. – Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued the following statement in support of the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) and the American Foreign Service Association (AFSA).
Issues:Foreign Affairs
Washington, D.C. - Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, today issued the following statement after Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed a joint declaration recommitting to the Washington Accords.
Issues:Foreign Affairs
Washington, D.C. — Today, Representatives Gregory W. Meeks, Sara Jacobs and Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Cory Booker issued the following statement condemning President Trump’s remarks on Somali immigrants and refugees:
Issues:Foreign Affairs
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Gregory W. Meeks, Rep. Josh Gottheimer and Capital Markets Subcommittee Chairman Ann Wagner unveiled the Incentivizing New Ventures and Economic Strength Through Capital Formation INVEST Act.
Washington, D.C. – Representative Gregory W. Meeks, Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Young Kim, Chairwoman of the Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific, introduced legislation that would enforce sanctions and visa restrictions on individuals and entities engaged in illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Issues:Foreign Affairs