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(JAMAICA, NY)Today, Congressman Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY), a member of the House Foreign Relations and Financial Services Committees, together with York College president, Dr. Marcia V. Keizs, will host an Executive Leadership Forum featuring United States Commerce Secretary, Carlos M. Gutierrez.
(JAMAICA, NY)Congressman Gregory W. Meeks announced today, that he will host a Sixth Congressional United States Citizenship Swearing-in Ceremony on Saturday, May 12, 2007, 11:00AM at the First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, located at 89-60 164 th Street, Jamaica, NY 11432. The press is invited to cover the event.
(WASHINGTON, DC)Monday, April 9, 2006 - Last week, Congressman Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) a member of the House Foreign Relations Committee and vice-chair of its subcommittee on Asia, the Pacific and the Global Environment took part in a bipartisan congressional delegation (CODEL) to Sudan, Egypt, Greece and Germany. The delegation, which was lead by Majority Leader Steny H.
(WASHINGTON, DC)Today, Congressman Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) of the Sixth Congressional District, Members of Congress and the President will honor 400 Black World War II pilots, the Tuskegee Airmen, with the nations highest civilian honor the Congressional Gold Medal for their distinguished service to the country.
(WASHINGTON, DC)Today, Congressman Gregory W. Meeks acknowledged the fourth anniversary of the start of the American invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Five years ago the names Enron and Worldcom went from being icons of American corporate success to the poster children for corporate excess and greed. In the wake of these two scandals, where shareholders lost billions of dollars, Congress felt the need to act, or more accurately react, to preserve shareholder confidence in the capital markets.
Mr. Speaker, this last day of February marks the end of Black History Month, the annual celebration commemorating the contributions of African Americans to this great nation.
I thought it fitting, as its Representative, to pay tribute to some of the many great African Americans that hail from the Sixth Congressional District of New York.
There is a concept from the people of West Africa called Sankofa, literally translated it means, “it is not taboo to go back and fetch what you forgot.” Today I want to use the premise of Sankofa and go back to some of the things that have occurred in the recent past with regard to Iraq so that we can learn from those lessons.