Lee is the senior senator from Utah and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 5, 2011. Lee is next up for reelection in 2022 and serves until Jan 3, 2023 unless re-elected.
![Photo of Sen. Mike Lee [R-UT]](/static/legislator-photos/412495-200px.jpeg)
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 Jul 30, 2020. See full analysis methodology.
Ratings from Advocacy Organizations
Committee Membership
Mike Lee sits on the following committees:
- Joint Economic Committee Chair
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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
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
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
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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Lee sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
International Affairs (17%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (14%) Crime and Law Enforcement (13%) Economics and Public Finance (13%) Transportation and Public Works (12%) Agriculture and Food (10%) Labor and Employment (10%) Government Operations and Politics (10%)
Recent Bills
Some of Lee’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- S. 4312: A bill to amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to provide ...
- S. 4265: A bill to amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 to require ...
- S.Res. 645: A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that mob violence should be ...
- S. 4065: Reinforcing American-Made Products Act of 2020
- 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
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2011 to Aug 2020, Lee missed 93 of 2,826 roll call votes, which is 3.3%. This is worse than the median of 1.7% 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.
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
