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Rep. Kendrick Meek [D-FL17]
U.S. Representative, Florida’s 17th District

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State:Florida [map]
District:17th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Sep 6, 1966 / 43 years old

To contact Kendrick Meek, visit his official website. (Read our tips for communicating with Congress.) See the Project Vote Smart page for Meek for more biographical and issue information.

Meek’s latest tweet:Lively health care town hall in Pembroke Pines today w/ DWS and Rep. Blumenauer. About 200 seniors in attendance..(Nov 12, 2009)
Official YouTube Feed
“Rep. Kendrick B. Meek Discusses Unfair and Excessive Bank Overdraft Fees” - Nov 16, 2009 8:01 PM. Watch Video.
On the Floor
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Congressional Service

Kendrick Meek has represented Florida’s 17th congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Kendrick Meek:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2003-2010
U.S. RepresentativeFlorida’s 17th
(was preceeded by Carrie Meek)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Meek is a rank-and-file Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

"Leader-Follower Score"
Meek is a leader according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Meek’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Meek, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Meek and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Meek.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Meek's bills without Meek returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Voting Record

Voting RecordKendrick Meek missed 236 (5%) of 5206 votes since Jan 7, 2003. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Meek in 2007-2008 was $19,500 from employees of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp. Kendrick Meek’s net worth was between $2,003 and $229,999 in 2007, according to Meek’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Meek.

Committee Membership

Kendrick Meek sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Kendrick Meek has sponsored 63 bills since Jan 7, 2003 of which 60 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Meek has co-sponsored 750 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Meek and companion bills identified by CRS that were themselves enacted, but not if they were incorporated into other bills, as that information is not readily available.)

Some of Meek’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3790: To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to repeal the Medicare competitive acquisition program for durable medical equipment and prosthetics, orthotics, and supplies (DMEPOS) in a budget neutral manner.
H.R. 2240: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to allow a nonrefundable credit for mentoring and housing young adults.
H.R. 2626: Renewable Energy Parity Act
H.R. 2528: To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the credit period for certain open-loop biomass facilities.
H.R. 1806: Freight Rail Infrastructure Capacity Expansion Act of 2009

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.