Daniel Meuser

RepublicanU.S. Representative, PA-9

Age	62 (b. 1964-02-10)
Gender	Male
In office since	2019-01-03 (~7 yrs)
Religion	Roman Catholic
Education	Attended Babylon High School (Babylon, NY, 1982); attended SUNY Maritime College (formerly New York Maritime College); B.A. from Cornell University (1986)
Prior occupation	Business executive and entrepreneur; executive at Pride Mobility Products (family-owned wheelchair/mobility manufacturer), where he worked about 20 years before leaving in August 2008
Military service	No
Birthplace	Flushing, Queens, New York
Marital status	Married — Shelley Van Acker Meuser
Children	3
Residence	Dallas, Pennsylvania
Notable relatives	Brother Scott Meuser and father Stan Meuser, co-founders/executives of Pride Mobility Products (family business, not politics)

Wikipedia · Ballotpedia · OpenSecrets · Official site

Pending research: race / ethnicity · languages · openly lgbtq.

Career & politics

First elected	2018
Previous offices	Pennsylvania Secretary of Revenue (2011-2015, under Gov. Tom Corbett)
Committees	Committee on Financial Services (Subcommittee on Financial Institutions; Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations - Chairman) · Committee on Small Business (Subcommittee on Contracting and Infrastructure)
Caucuses	Republican Study Committee · Problem Solvers Caucus · Congressional Ukraine Caucus
Leadership	Chairman, Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (House Financial Services Committee), 119th Congress · Member, House Republican Policy Committee
Ideology	Conservative Republican; member of the Republican Study Committee. Voted against certifying 2020 election results on Jan 6, 2021.

Financial

Net worth: disclosed $12,365,226–$51,877,000 (2018) · estimate

Lockheed Martin	stock · 2024
Nvidia	stock · 2024
Honeywell International	stock · 2024
Pfizer	stock · 2024
Alphabet (Google)	stock · 2022
Microsoft	stock · 2022
Visa	stock · 2022
JPMorgan Chase	stock · 2022
Walt Disney	stock · 2022

Top donors: Pride Mobility Products ($32,300)

Top industries: Securities & Investment · Financial Services · Small Business

Scandals & crimes ledger

settled — Pride Mobility Products customer-referral program settlement (2002) business

financial/corruption · · U.S. government (federal investigation; settled administratively) · Pride Mobility paid $80,000 to settle a government investigation into its customer referral program.

This is a business-entity matter, not a personal one. In 2002, Pride Mobility Products, the family company where Dan Meuser was an executive, paid $80,000 to settle a government investigation. The investigation found a Pride customer-referral program (intended to connect consumers with product retailers) non-compliant because retailers were required to pay Pride between $10 and $25 per referral rather than a flat annual fee.

Sources: Wikipedia

resolved — Pride Mobility Products INS Employer-Sanction Fine for Hiring Undocumented Workers business

criminal-other · 1995-01-01 · U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) / DOJ Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer (OCAHO) · Civil fine of $41,000 assessed; reduced to $23,000 after appeal and negotiation. Company paid the reduced amount.

Pride Mobility Products, where Dan Meuser served as president, was fined $41,000 by the INS for hiring three undocumented workers in 1995. The company appealed and the fine was negotiated down to $23,000, which was paid. Pride maintained the workers had presented fraudulent documentation before E-Verify existed. The matter was a civil employer-sanction enforcement action against the company. The incident surfaced as a campaign issue during Meuser's 2008 congressional primary race.

Sources: Wikipedia · Times Leader

resolved — STOCK Act late disclosure violation (family stock trades)

ethics-violation · 2020-03-26 · Meuser failed to timely disclose stock transactions by his wife and dependent children as required under the STOCK Act. His wife and children purchased between roughly $107,000 and $600,000 combined in Visa, Walt Disney, Microsoft, and Alphabet stock between March 26-31, 2020, during the pandemic market downturn. The purchases were not disclosed until August 11, 2021 — more than a year after the STOCK Act's 45-day disclosure deadline. Separately, his office also filed a nearly year-late disclosure of a sale of $750,000-$1.5 million of his wife's Nvidia stock. Meuser attributed the delay to broker/human error and said the trades benefited him in no way. · Meuser's office contacted the House Committee on Ethics, which assessed a $200 late-filing fee; Meuser paid the fine, which the Committee treated as satisfying the STOCK Act's late-disclosure requirement. No further ethics committee action or investigation was reported.

Rep. Meuser paid a $200 House Ethics Committee late-filing fee after disclosing, more than a year late, stock purchases and a sale made by his wife and children during the March 2020 market downturn, as required under the STOCK Act.

Sources: Times News Online · Times Leader · LegiStorm