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Rep. Summer Lee

Representative for Pennsylvania’s 12th District

Lee is the representative for Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district (view map) and is a Democrat. She has served since Jan 3, 2023. Lee is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. She is 35 years old.

Photo of Rep. Summer Lee [D-PA12]

Earmarks

Lee proposed $32 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:

  • $7 million to PennDOT District 11 for “McKeesport Duquesne Bridge Preservation”
  • $5 million to Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for “SR 2046, Streets Run Road Resurfacing”
  • $3.5 million to Tree of Life, Inc. for “Tree of Life Educational Space Rebuild”

These are earmark requests which may or may not survive the legislative process to becoming law. Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. Across representatives who requested earmarks, the median total amount requested for this fiscal year was $39 million.

Earmarks are federal expenditures, tax benefits, or tariff benefits requested by a legislator for a specific entity. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district. All earmark requests in the House of Representatives are published online for the public to review. We don’t have earmark requests for senators. The fiscal year begins on October 1 of the prior calendar year. Source: Appropriations.house.gov. Background: Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Lee is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our 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 3, 2019 to Sep 22, 2023. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Summer Lee sits on the following committees:

Bills Sponsored

Lee recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Lee voted Nay

Passed 403/8 on Sep 12, 2023.

Lee voted No

Passed 314/117 on May 31, 2023.
This bill would enact a compromise reached by House Republicans and President Biden to avert an impending fiscal crisis related to the statutory debt limit. …

Missed Votes

From Jan 2023 to Sep 2023, Lee missed 0 of 403 roll call votes, which is 0.0%. This is better than the median of 1.7% among the lifetime records of representatives 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, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Primary Sources

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