[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Homeownership rate: 53.8%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Foreign-born population: 43.1%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Poverty rate: 12.9%
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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Median household income: $86,577
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[constituency_baseline] Ballot measure: New York Proposal 1 (November 2024) — Equal Rights Amendment (enshrining abortion rights and anti-discrimination protections in the state constitution) (2024) — passed, margin 62%–38%
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 61 (share 0.092)
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 48-49 (share 0.105)
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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 62 (share 0.238)
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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Queens Public Library (1200 employees)
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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: NYC Health + Hospitals/Queens (8500 employees)
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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: JFK International Airport (Port Authority of NY & NJ) (37000 employees)
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[constituency_baseline] District summary: New York's 5th Congressional District encompasses southeastern Queens, including Jamaica, Hollis, St. Albans, South Ozone Park, and parts of the Rockaways, with a small portion extending into Nassau County. It is a majority-minority district with a population of approximately 790,000. Black or African American (Non-H
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Voted nay on H.R.23 (Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act (sanctioning the ICC over arrest warrants for Israeli officials)) on 2025-01-09: Meeks voted against sanctioning the ICC despite being the top House recipient of AIPAC funding ($448,828) — a donor that strongly supports ICC sanctions. Forty-five Democrats broke ranks to support the bill. This vote rep
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· 2025-01-09
Voted nay on S.5 (Laken Riley Act (requiring detention of undocumented immigrants charged with certain crimes)) on 2025-01-22: Meeks voted against this bill while 46 House Democrats joined all Republicans in support. His Queens-anchored district is 43.1% foreign-born with a 21.1% Hispanic population, making immigration enforcement a high-salience constituent
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· 2025-01-22
Voted yea on H.R.8034 (Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 (providing $17.6 billion in military aid to Israel)) on 2024-04-20: Meeks, as Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, argued for the bill in Democratic caucus. His top career donor is AIPAC ($448,828). While 37 Democrats voted against the bill over concerns about offe
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· 2024-04-20
Voted yea on H.Res.845 (Censuring Representative Rashida Tlaib for comments on the Israel-Hamas war) on 2023-11-07: Meeks was one of only 22 House Democrats to vote to censure Tlaib, the only Palestinian American in Congress. The vote put him sharply at odds with 184 of his Democratic colleagues and aligned with his top donor AIPAC's stated position. Tlaib r
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· 2023-11-07
Voted yea on H.R.3746 (Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (debt ceiling deal)) on 2023-05-31: Meeks joined House Democratic leadership including Hakeem Jeffries in supporting the bipartisan debt ceiling deal, while 46 progressive Democrats opposed it over spending-cap concerns. His district's median household income ($86,577) and significant poverty rate (12.
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· 2023-05-31
[vote] After months of blocking the sale, Meeks signed off on the $18 billion F-15 deal in June 2024, telling the Washington Post he had been in 'close touch' with the White House and 'repeatedly urged the administration to continue pushing Israel to make significant and concrete improvements on all fronts when it comes to humanitarian efforts and limiting c
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· 2024-06-17
[statement] Meeks publicly vowed to block an $18 billion arms sale to Israel that included 50 F-15 fighter jets unless he received 'assurances' from the Biden administration about how the weapons would be used in Gaza. He told CNN in April 2024: 'I don't want the kinds of weapons that Israel has to be utilized to have more deaths.'
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· 2024-04-15
[disclosure] Rep. Gregory Meeks failed to disclose a $40,000 loan from Queens real estate broker Edul Ahmad on his 2007 and 2008 personal financial disclosures. The House Ethics Committee subsequently found he 'failed to disclose' the loan, though it concluded there was no credible evidence the errors were knowing or willful. Meeks called the omission an 'ov
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· 2012-12-20
Last contradiction analysis: Never
Platform: "Meeks publicly vowed to block an $18 billion arms sale to Israel that included 50 F-15 fighter jets unless he received 'assurances' from the Biden adm"
Vote: on "After months of blocking the sale, Meeks signed off on the $18 billion F-15 deal in June 2024, telli"
Meeks publicly vowed to block an $18 billion F-15 arms sale to Israel citing civilian death concerns in Gaza, but approved the same sale two months later under Biden administration pressure — a reversal on the same arms package involving the same enf
Platform: "Meeks co-authored key provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law, including conflict-minerals disclosure rules and the Office of Minority and"
Vote: on "Rep. Gregory Meeks failed to disclose a $40,000 loan from Queens real estate broker Edul Ahmad on hi"
Meeks built a legislative record around financial transparency (Dodd-Frank co-author) but failed to disclose a $40,000 personal loan on required congressional filings for two years, calling it an 'oversight.' The Ethics Committee formally found he fa
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