U.S. Congresswoman Grace Meng is serving her fifth term in the United States House of Representatives. Grace represents the Sixth Congressional District of New York encompassing the New York City borough of Queens, including west, central and northeast Queens.
Grace is the first and only Asian American Member of Congress from New York State and the first female Congressmember from Queens since former Vice Presidential nominee Geraldine Ferraro.
Grace is a member of the powerful House Appropriations Committee and is Vice Chair of its Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations. She also sits on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, and the Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science and Related Agencies. The Appropriations Committee is responsible for funding every federal agency, program, and project within the United States government.
It is imperative that we offer all our young people access to high quality, affordable education.
The costs of college have skyrocketed, and students today face crushing debt loads. In Congress, I am fighting to lower interest rates on student loans, ease the process for students and graduates to pay off their loans, and provide incentives to colleges to lower their skyrocketing tuition rates.
As a product of the New York City schools, I appreciate the value of a strong public education system, and oppose attempts to marginalize it. I also support strong private and religious school options for our city’s students. We must keep our schools open, hire more teachers, and save after-school and extracurricular programs.