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Excerpt: The new Marketplaces open across the country today means economic security for millions of Americans and a healthier nation.
Excerpt: By any measure, this tentative agreement is an outstanding achievement and holds the potential for future breakthroughs in the Syrian civil war, easing tensions in the Middle East, and fostering U.S.-Russian cooperation and collaboration on a range of other outstanding issues.
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congressman Gregory W. Meeks (NY-05) a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee released the following statement after President Barack Obama’s address to the nation on the situation in Syria:
Remarks and Questions
Congressman Gregory W. Meeks
Full Committee Hearing:
Syria: Weighing the Obama Administration’s Response
September 4, 2013
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Congressman Gregory W. Meeks (NY-05) a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee released the following statement on his position on the U.S. response to Syria’s use of chemical weapons:
Excerpt: I continue to firmly believe that any U.S. military action, if any, should be with close Congressional consultation, limited, with no boots on the ground, and must be multilateral in nature.
WASHINGTON, D.C. –Thursday, August 29, 2013-- Today, Congressman Gregory W. Meeks (NY-05) issued the following statement on his support to permanently extend the Rockaway Ferry Service:
JAMAICA, N.Y. – Today, Congressman Gregory W. Meeks issued the following statement on Judge Scheindlin’s ruling on the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) Stop-and-Frisk tactic:
Excerpt: Silence about race will not heal our souls or our society. Perhaps the President is right when he says this conversation should start in families, places of worship, workplaces, and campuses. And, as he suggested, perhaps it should also start with each of us asking ourselves ‘if I have wrung enough bias out of myself.’
Excerpt: Our justice system says we must abide by a jury’s decision. But abiding by a jury’s decision does not require that we agree with it — particularly when a verdict may have the effect of sanctioning racial profiling; of depriving African American citizens of standing their ground in asserting their right to walk through any neighborhood in the land without being followed, harassed, or worse, shot by anyone who takes a mind to do so.