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(Jamaica, NY)–Congressman Gregory Meeks is launching a foreclosure intervention initiative in collaboration with the Consortium for Workers Education to deal with the alarming number of foreclosures that are happening across the cities of Queens and Far Rockaway. The Congressman’s district is in a foreclosure state of emergency with the highest rate of foreclosure filings in New York City.
(WASHINGTON, DC)–Today, Congressman Gregory Meeks applauded the release of $5.1 billion in energy assistance, which will provide help to financially strapped Americans to help keep their homes heated during this upcoming winter.
(WASHINGTON, DC)–Today, Congressman Gregory Meeks voted for H.R. 6867, the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act, which will provide an additional seven weeks of extended unemployment benefits for workers who have used up all of their unemployment benefits.
(WASHINGTON, DC)–U.S. Representative Gregory W. Meeks (NY-6) voted with his colleagues from both sides of the aisle to pass H.R. 1424, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 to help address the current economic crisis facing American families and the national economy. “We are facing the most significant economic downturn our nation has seen since the Great Depression.
I would like to thank Timothy Mitchell, President of the Jamaica Business Resource Center, and Leslie Schweitzer, Senior Trade Advisor at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, not only for the warm words of welcome, but also for the collaborative spirit with which they went about helping putting this event together.
(WASHINGTON, DC)–Washington, DC: House and Senate Democrat agreed this afternoon to a set of principles on revisions to the rescue plan, which calls for the Treasury Department to buy up bad mortgage securities from banks in an effort to get them to lend again.
(WASHINGTON, DC)–"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." -President John F. Kennedy
(WASHINGTON, DC)–Today, Congressman Gregory Meeks voted for H.R. 6899, the Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act of 2008. The bill provides lower energy costs for Americans, invests in clean, renewable energy resources, expands domestic energy supply and promotes greater energy efficiency and conservation.
(WASHINGTON, DC)–Congressman Gregory W. Meeks (NY-6) expressed his disappointment in the expulsion of the United States Diplomats to the countries of Bolivia and Venezuela. President Evo Morales of Bolivia and President Hugo Chávez of Venezuela have declared the American ambassadors to both nations persona non grata and gave both 72 hours to leave their countries. The U.S.