Mike Lee, Senator for Utah

Lee is the junior senator from Utah and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 5, 2011. Lee is next up for reelection in 2022.

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2017 Report Card for Lee.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Lee is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the Senate positioned according to our liberal–conservative ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Lee has sponsored and cosponsored. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

The Club for Growth: 100% FreedomWorks: 100% Americans for Prosperity: 99% NumbersUSA: 85% United States Chamber of Commerce: 71% American Civil Liberties Union: 58% The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: C Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 12% League of Conservation Voters: 9% Human Rights Campaign: 0% NIAC Action: F

Committee Membership

Mike Lee sits on the following committees:

Vice Chair, Joint Economic Committee
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
- Chair, Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining
- Member, Subcommittee on National Parks
- Member, Subcommittee on Water and Power
Senate Committee on the Judiciary
- Chair, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights
- Member, Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration
- Member, Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts
- Member, Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
- Member, Subcommittee on Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security
- Member, Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet
- Member, Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security
- Member, Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard
- Member, Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness

Enacted Legislation

Lee was the primary sponsor of 5 bills that were enacted:

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We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Lee sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Labor and Employment (15%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (13%) Education (13%) Government Operations and Politics (13%) Economics and Public Finance (13%) International Affairs (11%) Crime and Law Enforcement (11%) Commerce (10%)

Recent Bills

Some of Lee’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Lee’s Vote	Vote Description
Nay	H.R. 5325: Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2017 Sep 28, 2016. Bill Passed 72/26.
Nay	H.R. 22: Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act Dec 3, 2015. Conference Report Agreed to 83/16. H.R 22, formerly the Hire More Heroes Act, has become the Senate’s vehicle for passage of the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act or DRIVE Act (S. 1647). The DRIVE Act is a major bipartisan transportation bill that would authorize funding ...
Nay	H.R. 22: Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act Jul 30, 2015. Bill Passed 65/34. This vote turned H.R 22, originally the Hire More Heroes Act, into the Senate’s vehicle for passage of the Developing a Reliable and Innovative Vision for the Economy Act or DRIVE Act (S. 1647), a major bipartisan transportation bill, and the Export-Import Bank Reform and ...
Nay	S. 1177: Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 Jul 16, 2015. Bill Passed 81/17. The Every Child Achieves Act is a bipartisan educational policy reform bill that would expand state responsibility over schools, provide grants to charter schools, and reduce the federal test-based accountability system of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). The bill was referred to the ...
Not Voting	H.R. 2146: Defending Public Safety Employees’ Retirement Act Jun 24, 2015. Motion Agreed to 60/38. This was the Senate's final vote on Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal currently being negotiated. H.R. 2146 was originally introduced as a bill to address issues with retirement funds of federal law enforcement officers and firefighters. The House had ...
Not Voting	H.R. 5771 (113th): Tax Increase Prevention Act of 2014 Dec 16, 2014. Bill Passed 76/16.
Nay	H.J.Res. 124 (113th): Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015 Sep 18, 2014. Joint Resolution Passed 78/22.
Nay	H.R. 3304 (113th): National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2014 Dec 19, 2013. Motion Agreed to 84/15.
Nay	S. 1789 (112th): 21st Century Postal Service Act of 2012 Apr 25, 2012. Bill Passed 62/37.
Nay	H.R. 1540 (112th): National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 Dec 15, 2011. Conference Report Agreed to 86/13.

Missed Votes

From Jan 2011 to Sep 2018, Lee missed 82 of 2,182 roll call votes, which is 3.8%. This is much worse than the median of 1.5% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2011 Jan-Mar	46	0	0.0%	0^th
2011 Apr-Jun	58	1	1.7%	29^th
2011 Jul-Sep	49	1	2.0%	48^th
2011 Oct-Dec	82	5	6.1%	91^st
2012 Jan-Mar	63	2	3.2%	83^rd
2012 Apr-Jun	109	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Jul-Sep	28	3	10.7%	86^th
2012 Nov-Dec	50	1	2.0%	58^th
2013 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	92	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Apr-Jun	76	6	7.9%	90^th
2013 Jul-Sep	43	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Oct-Dec	80	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Jan-Mar	93	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Apr-Jun	123	12	9.8%	88^th
2014 Jul-Sep	54	0	0.0%	0^th
2014 Nov-Dec	96	5	5.2%	80^th
2015 Jan-Mar	135	12	8.9%	96^th
2015 Apr-Jun	85	8	9.4%	94^th
2015 Jul-Sep	52	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Oct-Dec	67	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Jan-Mar	38	2	5.3%	68^th
2016 Apr-Jun	79	2	2.5%	71^st
2016 Jul-Sep	34	12	35.3%	98^th
2016 Nov-Dec	12	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jan-Mar	101	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Apr-Jun	54	1	1.9%	62^nd
2017 Jul-Sep	53	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Oct-Dec	117	1	0.9%	52^nd
2018 Jan-Mar	63	0	0.0%	0^th
2018 Apr-Jun	80	2	2.5%	64^th
2018 Jul-Sep	69	6	8.7%	87^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

@unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
GPO Member Guide for the photo
GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills

Mike Lee is pronounced:

mīk // lee

The letters stand for sounds according to the following table:

Letter	Sounds As In
EE ee	meet
Ī ī	eye
K k	king
L l	leg
M m	man

Capital letters indicate a stressed syllable.

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