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Rep. Gregory Meeks [D-NY6]
U.S. Representative, New York’s 6th District

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State:New York [map]
District:6th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Sep 25, 1953 / 56 years old

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

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Congressional Service

Gregory Meeks has represented New York’s 6th congressional district since 1997.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Gregory Meeks:

WhenRoleRepresenting
1997-2010
U.S. RepresentativeNew York’s 6th
(was preceeded by Floyd Flake)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Meeks 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"
Meeks is a follower according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Meeks tends to cosponsors the bills of other Members of Congress who do not cosponsor Meeks’s own bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

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

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

Voting Record

Voting RecordGregory Meeks missed 636 (8%) of 8096 votes since Feb 11, 1998. 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 Meeks in 2007-2008 was $22,600 from employees of Citigroup Inc. Gregory Meeks’s net worth was between $0 and $0 in 2007, according to Meeks’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Meeks.

Committee Membership

Gregory Meeks sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Gregory Meeks has sponsored 34 bills since Jan 7, 1997 of which 31 haven't made it out of committee and 1 were successfully enacted. Meeks has co-sponsored 1750 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Meeks 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 Meeks’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.Con.Res. 184: Expressing the sense of the Congress that the bankruptcy proceedings of Lehman Brothers Holding Inc. and Lehman Brothers Europe Inc. be resolved in an equitable and expeditious process between the United States and United Kingdom, and that the interests of American investors be given due consideration and be treated with urgency throughout.
H.R. 1797: Compete Act of 2009
H.R. 1798: Working American Competitiveness Act
H.R. 1418: To eliminate the exemption from State regulation for certain securities designated by national securities exchanges.
H.R. 2733: Fixed Indexed Annuities and Insurance Products Classification Act of 2009

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Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.