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Washington — Michigan Republican U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer said it's past time for the United States to send a high-ranking senior official to Ukraine to show solidarity with the war-torn nation.
WASHINGTON — Four U.S. House representatives, including Rep. Peter Meijer, have presented a new bill that would repurpose Russian asset seizures toward helping Ukraine.
Titled the Yachts for Ukraine Act, the bill would help rebuild Ukraine using Russia’s seized assets, such as yachts and mansions temporarily seized from wealthy Russians, Meijer’s office explains.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — As Russia attacked Ukraine, Americans were left wondering what Russian President Vladimir Putin might do next and how it could affect the United States.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Michigan Congressman Peter Meijer (R-Grand Rapids) had anything but a typical first year in Congress.
“I don't think anyone goes to Congress in the modern era thinking it's going to be functional, but I don't think we anticipated the degree of dysfunction and just how deep some of those problems are,” he told FOX 17 Monday.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The United States House and Senate are likely finished for the year. The possibility that the Senate might be called back to deal with the Build Back Better plan, the centerpiece of President Joe Biden’s domestic agenda, is still alive but with only seven days until Christmas, getting it passed by that deadline Democrats had hoped for seems unlikely.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — On a trip that brought her through Steelcase, Herbrucks and then Robinette’s, Congresswoman Angie Craig, D-Minnesota, wasn’t at home, but West Michigan certainly felt familiar.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — In his initial run for office, then-candidate Peter Meijer, R-Grand Rapids, said reclaiming congressional war powers would be among his highest priorities if he took office. On Thursday, Meijer alongside U.S. Rep. Jim McGovern, D-Massachusetts, introduced legislation that in large part would do that.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Representatives Peter Meijer and Ritchie Torres introduced on Tuesday the Combating Veteran Homelessness Act of 2021.
It would provide federal support to private and nonprofit organizations that work to end veteran homelessness.
When news broke that two members of Congress, Republican Peter Meijer of Michigan and Democrat Seth Moulton of Massachusetts, had secretly flown to Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul earlier this week, Biden-administration officials harshly condemned
President Joe Biden announced in April that he would withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, following an agreement between former President Donald Trump and the Taliban to have U.S. troops out by May (a deadline President Biden later extended to September).