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This is a list of Asian Americans and Pacific Islander Americans in the U.S. Congress.. Asian Americans are Americans of Asian descent. The term refers to a panethnic group that includes diverse populations with ancestral origins in East Asia, South Asia or Southeast Asia, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau.
For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from New York. The list of names should be complete as of January 3, 2025, but other data may be incomplete.
Grace Meng was born to a Taiwanese American family on October 1, 1975, in Queens, New York, [3] and was raised in the Bayside and Flushing sections of that borough. [4] She is of waishengren Taiwanese descent, [5] and is the daughter of Jimmy Meng, the first Asian to serve in the New York State Assembly, [6] and Shiao-Mei Meng. [7]
Enrico Anthony Lazio (/ ˈ l æ z i. oʊ /; born March 13, 1958) [1] is an American attorney and former four-term U.S. Representative from the State of New York.A Long Island native, Lazio became well-known during his bid for U.S. Senate in New York's 2000 Senate election; he was defeated by Hillary Rodham Clinton.
[23] [24] In March 2020, while serving as a member of Congress, Rose deployed with the National Guard to assist New York City's coronavirus pandemic response effort. [25] He and his unit spent two weeks turning a Staten Island psychiatric center into an emergency hospital for patients with COVID-19.
The National Film Registry (NFR) is the United States National Film Preservation Board's (NFPB) collection of films selected for preservation, each selected for its historical, cultural and aesthetic contributions since the NFPB's inception in 1988.
[1] [2] A member of the Democratic Party, Torres is the U.S. representative for New York's 15th congressional district. [3] The district covers most of the South Bronx and is the poorest congressional district in the United States by median income [ 4 ] as well as one of the smallest districts by area in the country, covering only a few square ...
Kim comes from a Korean American family who immigrated to Queens when he was seven. The only child of Seo Jun Kim and Sun Hee Kim, [4] he grew up in Flushing, Queens.He graduated from the Riverdale Country Day School [5] in the Bronx in 1997, where he was captain of the football and track teams. [6]