Rep. Grace Meng

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 Report Card for Meng.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Meng is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Meng has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Feb 26, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Grace Meng sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Appropriations
  Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, Homeland Security, State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs subcommittees
• House Committee on Ethics

Enacted Legislation

Meng was the primary sponsor of 3 bills that were enacted:

• H.R. 423: Anti-Spoofing Act of 2017
• H.R. 4238 (114th): To amend the Department of Energy Organization Act and the Local Public Works Capital Development and Investment Act of 1976 to modernize terms relating to minorities.
• H.R. 4028 (113th): To amend the International Religious Freedom Act of 1998 to include the desecration of cemeteries among the many forms of violations of the right to religious freedom.

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Does 3 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Meng sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

International Affairs (17%) Health (17%) Arts, Culture, Religion (16%) Transportation and Public Works (12%) Armed Forces and National Security (10%) Commerce (10%) Government Operations and Politics (10%) Education (9%)

Recent Bills

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

• H.R. 5874: Decrease Noise Levels Act
• H.R. 5814: No Public Charge Deportation Act of 2019
• H.R. 5815: Locality-based Social Security Benefits Act of 2019
• H.R. 5813: Pathway to Stable and Affordable Housing for All Act
• H.Res. 813: Recognizing the 75th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
• H.Res. 808: Recognizing the cultural and historical significance of Lunar New Year in 2020.
• H.R. 5253: 21st Century Youth Entrepreneurship Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2013 to Feb 2020, Meng missed 196 of 4,510 roll call votes, which is 4.3%. This is worse than the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

• unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
• The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
• GPO Member Guide for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills