Sen. Mike Lee

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 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 from Jan 6, 2015 to Mar 26, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Mike Lee sits on the following committees:

• Joint Economic Committee Chair
• Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
  • Public Lands, Forests, and Mining subcommittee Chair

  Energy, National Parks subcommittees
• Senate Committee on the Judiciary
  • Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights subcommittee Chair

  Border Security and Immigration, the Constitution, Intellectual Property subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  Aviation and Space, Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, Manufacturing, Trade, and Consumer Protection, Security subcommittees

Enacted Legislation

Lee was the primary sponsor of 6 bills that were enacted:

• S. 49: A bill to designate the outstation of the Department of Veterans Affairs in North Ogden, Utah, as the Major Brent Taylor Vet Center Outstation.
• S. 78: Modernizing Government Travel Act
• S. 1123 (114th): USA FREEDOM Act of 2015
• S. 684 (112th): A bill to provide for the conveyance of certain parcels of land to the town of Alta, Utah.
• S. 683 (112th): Box Elder Utah Land Conveyance Act
• S. 1875 (112th): United States Commission on International Religious Freedom Reform and Reauthorization Act of 2011

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Does 6 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

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:

International Affairs (18%) Economics and Public Finance (14%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (14%) Transportation and Public Works (12%) Labor and Employment (11%) Crime and Law Enforcement (11%) Agriculture and Food (10%) Government Operations and Politics (10%)

Recent Bills

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

• S. 3421: USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act of 2020
• S. 3259: Protecting Life in Foreign Assistance Act
• S. 3173: Abortion Is Not Health Care Act of 2020
• S. 3138: Parental Accessibility Rights for Emergency and Negligent Treatment Act
• S. 3140: American Wild Game and Livestock Protection Act
• S. 3137: Parental Right to Know Act
• S. 2996: Head Start Improvement Act of 2019

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2011 to Mar 2020, Lee missed 92 of 2,752 roll call votes, which is 3.3%. This is worse than the median of 1.4% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

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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