Sen. Mike Lee

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2018 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 Aug 1, 2019. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Mike Lee sits on the following committees:

• Chair, Joint Economic Committee
• Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
  • Chair, Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining
  • Member, Subcommittee on Energy
  • Member, Subcommittee on National Parks
• Senate Committee on the Judiciary
  • Chair, Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights
  • Member, Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration
  • Member, Subcommittee on Intellectual Property
  • Member, Subcommittee on the Constitution
• Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  • Member, Subcommittee on Aviation and Space
  • Member, Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet
  • Member, Subcommittee on Manufacturing, Trade, and Consumer Protection
  • Member, Subcommittee on Security

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 (15%) Economics and Public Finance (15%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (15%) Government Operations and Politics (12%) Crime and Law Enforcement (12%) Transportation and Public Works (11%) Labor and Employment (11%) Education (9%)

Recent Bills

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

• S.Res. 298: A resolution concurring with the decision to withdraw the United States from the ...
• S. 2339: Higher Education Reform and Opportunity Act of 2019
• S. 1973: A bill to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish ...
• S. 1870: Miracle Mountain Designation Act
• S. 1873: Protecting Access to American Products Act
• S. 1768: Native Species Protection Act
• S. 1753: Take Care Act

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2011 to Aug 2019, Lee missed 87 of 2,506 roll call votes, which is 3.5%. This is worse than the median of 1.5% 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