Gregory W. Meeks
Democrat · NY-5 · U.S. House
NY-5 — U.S. House
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Bio
Gregory Weldon Meeks is an American lawyer and politician who has been a U.S. representative from New York since 1998, and since 2013, has represented the state's 5th congressional district. He is a member of the Democratic Party and chaired the House Committee on Foreign Affairs from 2021 to 2023. He still sits on the committee as ranking member. He is also the chair of the Queens County Democratic Party. He will become the dean of New York’s House delegation upon the retirements of Jerry Nadler and Nydia Velázquez in 2026.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 29.7 years
- First took office
- 1997 (15 terms)
- Seniority
- 25 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 73
- Arverne, NY · 347-230-4032
- Jamaica, NY · 718-725-6000
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $0 – $0
- Liabilities
- $280k – $600k
- Net worth
- −$600k – −$280k
- Since 2019
- +$418k
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Gregory W. Meeks's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Gregory W. Meeks (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Meekssits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
- Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
- Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Meeks's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Trump Strikes 'Deal With the Devil' for Russian Diesel as High Prices Hinder GOP in MidtermsDemocrats in Congress and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday swiftly condemned US President Donald Trump's plan to secure diesel from Russia in hopes of combating fuel prices that have skyrocketed due to his illegal war on Iran."I have just con…
Common Dreams · October 9, 2026
House Democrats slam Trump over Russia sanctionsHouse Democrats are panning the Trump administration after US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer wouldn’t commit last week to imposing Russian sanctions recently enacted by Congress. Rep. Greg Meeks of New York, the top Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs …
Biztoc.com · October 5, 2026
House Democrats plan vast oversight of Trump admin. Impeachment is an option.WASHINGTON (AP) — House Democrats are preparing a vast oversight agenda, with investigations of President Donald Trump, his family and his administration if the party sweeps control of the chamber from Republicans in the November elections. The undertaking i…
Yahoo Entertainment · September 26, 2026
Human Rights Group Urges Congress to Block 'Illegal' Sale of 2,000-Pound Bombs to Israel3A human rights organization on Friday called on members of Congress to block the Trump administration's proposed $2.8 billion transfer of 40,000 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, warning that approving the massive weapons package could violate US law and expose l…
Common Dreams · September 18, 2026
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