Reps. Grace Meng and Ted Lieu Join Anti-Semitism Task Force Leadership
WASHINGTON (JTA) Two Taiwanese-American members of Congress have joined the leadership of its anti-Semitism task force.
Reps. Grace Meng of New York and Ted Lieu of California, both Democrats, were listed among eight-co-chairs of the Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Antisemitism in a release Monday, the first for the new Congress. The task force has over 100 members from the U.S. House of Representatives.
The newcomers replace two Jewish members, also Democrats, in leadership positions: Nita Lowey of New York, who retired, and Eliot Engel of New York, who lost in a primary election last year. That leaves just one Jewish co-chair, Ted Deutch, a Florida Democrat.
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