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WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Rep.
By Congresswoman Grace Meng and Catherine Chen | Published: September 26, 2025 | Empire Report
Washington, D.C. – Last week, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Chair Emerita Judy Chu (CA-28), First Vice Chair Mark Takano (CA-41), and Chair Grace Meng (NY-06) introduced a bipartisan resolutionrecognizing Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISI) Week, from Septe
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Rep. Grace Meng (NY-06), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), issued the following statement after House passage of H.R. 5371 - Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2026:
“Today, House Republicans rammed through a partisan funding bill that continues to worsen the health care crisis they single-handedly created.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Rep. Grace Meng (NY-06), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) hosted a press conference with Democratic Caucus Vice Chair Ted Lieu (CA-36), CAPAC Second Vice Chair Jill Tokuda (HI-02), Chair Emerita Judy Chu (CA-28), and CAPAC members Rep. Dave Min (CA-47) and Rep. Ed Case (HI-01) on the devastating impacts of President Trump’s tariffs on Asian American businesses and communities across the country.
WASHINGTON, DC – Ahead of today’s House Appropriations Committee markup of Fiscal Year (FY) 2026 Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies (CJS) funding legislation, Rep. Judy Chu (CA-28) and Senator Mazie Hirono (HI) led a bicameral letter to stop Republican lawmakers from reinstating the China Initiative, which unfairly targeted and profiled Chinese American and Chinese researchers and scholars.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Chairs of the Congressional Tri-Caucus—Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Chair Rep. Grace Meng (NY-06), Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Chair Rep. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13), and Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Chair Rep.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the House Appropriations Committee advanced a key spending bill that includes language to reinstate the “China Initiative,” a now-defunct program within the Department of Justice that purported to combat espionage but in effect targeted and profiled researchers of Chinese descent.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) and Georgia’s Congressional Delegation issued the following joint statement today in response to an immigration raid at a manufacturing site in Ellabell, Georgia — the largest single site enforcement operation in the history of Homeland Security Investigations: