Rep. Grace Meng’s 2017 Report Card
Representative
from New York's 6th District
Democrat
Serving Jan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2025
These year-end statistics cover Meng’s record during the 2017 legislative year (Jan 3, 2017-Dec 31, 2017) and compare her to other representatives serving at the end of that period. Last updated on Jan 6, 2018.
A higher or lower number below doesn’t necessarily make this legislator any better or worse, or more or less effective, than other Members of Congress. We present these statistics for you to understand the quantitative aspects of Meng’s legislative career and make your own judgements based on what activities you think are important.
Keep in mind that there are many important aspects of being a legislator besides what can be measured, such as constituent services and performing oversight of the executive branch, which aren’t reflected here.
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Introduced the 8th most bills compared to All Representatives (tied with 2 others)Meng introduced 36 bills and resolutions in 2017. View Bills » Compare to all New York Delegation (93rd percentile); House Democrats (95th percentile); All Representatives (98th percentile). |
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Ranked the 16th top leader compared to House DemocratsOur unique leadership analysis looks at who is cosponsoring whose bills. A higher score shows a greater ability to get cosponsors on bills. For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in 2017 is considered, the leadership score here may differ from Meng’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all New York Delegation (70th percentile); House Democrats (92nd percentile); All Representatives (84th percentile). |
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Got bipartisan cosponsors on the 22nd most bills compared to House Democrats (tied with 5 others)In this era of partisanship, it is important to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. 8 of Meng’s 36 bills and resolutions had both a Democratic cosponsor and a Republican cosponsor in 2017. Compare to all New York Delegation (67th percentile); House Democrats (86th percentile); All Representatives (81st percentile). |
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Got the 41st most cosponsors on their bills compared to All RepresentativesMeng’s bills and resolutions had 496 cosponsors in 2017. Securing cosponsors is an important part of getting support for a bill, although having more cosponsors does not always mean a bill will get a vote. View Bills » Compare to all New York Delegation (78th percentile); House Democrats (89th percentile); All Representatives (91st percentile). |
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Got influential cosponsors the 33rd most often compared to All Representatives (tied with 24 others)5 of Meng’s bills and resolutions in 2017 had a cosponsor who was a chair or ranking member of a committee that the bill was referred to. Getting support from committee leaders on relevant committees is a crucial step in moving legislation forward. Those bills were: H.R. 632: Mark Takai Atomic Veterans Healthcare …; H.R. 866: Expanded Stalking Protections Act of …; H.R. 2539: Quiet Communities Act of 2017; H.R. 2960: Community College Student Success Act; H.R. 4598: To amend the Small Business … Compare to all New York Delegation (74th percentile); House Democrats (86th percentile); All Representatives (87th percentile). |
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Ranked 82nd most politically left compared to All RepresentativesOur unique ideology analysis assigns a score to Members of Congress according to their legislative behavior by how similar the pattern of bills and resolutions they cosponsor are to other Members of Congress. For more, see our methodology. Note that because on this page only legislative activity in 2017 is considered, the ideology score here may differ from Meng’s score elsewhere on GovTrack. Compare to all New York Delegation (37th percentile); House Democrats (41st percentile); All Representatives (18th percentile). |
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Was 90th most absent in votes compared to All Representatives (tied with 6 others)Meng missed 3.8% of votes (27 of 710 votes) in 2017. View Meng’s Profile » Compare to all New York Delegation (67th percentile); All Representatives (78th percentile). The Speaker of the House, per current House rules, is not required to vote in “ordinary legislative proceedings” and is never recorded as missing a vote, and may not be included in the comparison with other representatives if not voting. The delegates from the five island territories and the District of Columbia are not eligible to vote in most roll call votes and so may not appear here if not elligible for any vote during the time period of these statistics. |
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Cosponsored the 94th most bills compared to All Representatives (tied with 2 others)Meng cosponsored 266 bills and resolutions introduced by other Members of Congress. Cosponsorship shows a willingness to work with others to advance policy goals. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all New York Delegation (56th percentile); House Democrats (53rd percentile); All Representatives (78th percentile). |
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Joined bipartisan bills the 100th most often compared to All RepresentativesIn this era of partisanship, it is encouraging to see Members of Congress working across the aisle. Of the 266 bills that Meng cosponsored, 30% were introduced by a legislator who was not a Democrat. View Cosponsored Bills » Compare to all New York Delegation (63rd percentile); House Democrats (56th percentile); All Representatives (77th percentile). Only Democratic and Republican Members of Congress who cosponsored more than 10 bills and resolutions are included in this statistic. |
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Laws EnactedMeng introduced 0 bills that became law, including via incorporation into other measures, in 2017. Keep in mind that it takes a law to repeal a law. Very few bills ever become law. Compare to all New York Delegation (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). The legislator must be the primary sponsor of the bill or joint resolution that was enacted or the primary sponsor of a bill or joint resolution for which at least about one third of its text was incorporated into another bill or joint resolution that was enacted as law, as determined by an automated analysis. While a legislator may lay claim to authoring other bills that became law, these cases are difficult for us to track quantitatively. We also exclude bills where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill. |
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Bills Out of CommitteeMost bills and resolutions languish in committee without any action. Meng introduced 2 bills in 2017 that got past committee and to the floor for consideration. Those bills were: H.R. 382: 100 Years of Women in …; H.R. 423: Anti-Spoofing Act of 2017 Compare to all New York Delegation (48th percentile); House Democrats (73rd percentile); All Representatives (54th percentile). |
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Working with the SenateThe House and Senate often work on the same issue simultaneously by introducing Those bills were: H.R. 632: Mark Takai Atomic Veterans Healthcare … Compare to all New York Delegation (22nd percentile); House Democrats (29th percentile); All Representatives (28th percentile). Companion bills are those that are identified as “identical” by Congress’s Congressional Research Service. |
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Committee PositionsMeng held a leadership position on 0 committees and 0 subcommittees, as either a chair (majority party) or ranking member (minority party), at the end of the session. View Meng’s Profile » Compare to all New York Delegation (0th percentile); House Democrats (0th percentile); All Representatives (0th percentile). |
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Government TransparencyGovTrack looked at whether Meng supported any of 21 government transparency, accountability, and effectiveness bills in the House that we identified in this session. We gave Meng 1 point, based on one point for cosponsoring and three points for sponsoring any of these bills. Meng cosponsored H.Res. 630: Requiring each Member, officer, and … Compare to all New York Delegation (26th percentile); House Democrats (18th percentile); All Representatives (28th percentile). |
Additional Notes
Leadership/Ideology: The leadership and ideology scores are not displayed for Members of Congress who introduced fewer than 10 bills, or, for ideology, for Members of Congress that have a low leadership score, as there is usually not enough data in these cases to compute reliable leadership and ideology statistics.
Missing Bills: We exclude bills from some statistics where the sponsor’s original intent is not in the final bill because the bill’s text was replaced in whole with unrelated provisions (i.e. it became a vehicle for passage of unrelated provisions).
Ranking Members (RkMembs): The chair of a committee is always selected from the political party that holds the most seats in the chamber, called the “majority party”. The “ranking member” (sometimes “RkMembs”) is the title given to the senior-most member of the committee not in the majority party.
Freshmen/Sophomores: Freshmen and sophomores are Members of Congress whose first term (in the same chamber at the end of 2017) was the 115th Congress (freshmen) or 114th (sophomores). Members of Congress who took office within the last few months of a Congress are considered freshmen in the next Congress as well.
