Press Releases
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, U.S. Representatives Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) and Peter King (R-NY) joined U.S. Senators John McCain (R-AZ) and Harry Reid (D-NV) in sending a letter to President Barack Obama asking him to issue a posthumous pardon to boxing legend John Arthur “Jack” Johnson. Johnson was the first African-American heavyweight-boxing champion but in 1913, he was charged under the Mann Act for his interracial relationship with a white woman, tarnishing his name and ruining his career. The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) that President Obama signed yesterday included a resolution cosponsored by the above Representatives and Senators, expressing that it is the sense of Congress that Mr. Johnson should be posthumously pardoned. Congressman Meeks issued a statement regarding the letter to President Obama:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Gregory W. Meeks released the following statement after Republicans in the House of Representatives blocked a vote on H.R. 1076, the Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act:
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Gregory W. Meeks released the following statement after the House of Representatives passed the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a bill to replace No Child Left Behind, by a vote of 359-64:
NEW YORK, N.Y. - Congressman Gregory W. Meeks released the following statement regarding the release of video footage showing the fatal shooting of Laquan McDonald:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Gregory W. Meeks released the following statement regarding the hostage situation at the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Gregory W. Meeks released the following statement regarding his vote against H.R. 4038 the so-called “American SAFE Act of 2015":
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Gregory W. Meeks, the Ranking Member of the Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats Subcommittee released the following excerpt of his statement during the Joint Hearing of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the Homeland Security Committee entitled “The Rise of Radicalism: Growing Terrorist Sanctuaries and the Threat to the U.S. Homeland":
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Gregory W. Meeks released the following statement commemorating the third anniversary of Super Storm Sandy:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Gregory W. Meeks released the following statement regarding his missed votes in the House this week:
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Congressman Gregory W. Meeks released the following statement today after the House voted 313-118 to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank: