Mike Lee
Republican · UT · U.S. Senate
Bio
Michael Shumway Lee is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Utah, a seat he has held since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Lee has been Utah's senior senator since 2019 and the dean of Utah's congressional delegation since 2021.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 15.6 years
- First took office
- 2011 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 44 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 55
- Senate class
- 3 · senior senator
- Ogden, UT · 801-392-9633
- Salt Lake City, UT · 801-524-5933
- Vernal, UT · 435-503-9335
- St. George, UT · 435-628-5514
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $230k – $600k
- Liabilities
- $500k – $1.0M
- Net worth
- −$770k – $100k
- Since 2016
- −$438k
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Mike Lee's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Mike Lee (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Leesits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Senate Committee on the Budgetcenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relationscenter · 22 members
- Senate Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 22 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Lee's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
'Jesus Will Win': MAGA Senator Unravels Over Imaginary Coca-Cola War With JesusPro-MAGA Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) joined the attacks on Coca-Cola after fringe conservatives claimed that the soft drink company was in a war with Jesus because a glitch did not allow a custom Christian message on cans. The Utah Republican posted twice this wee…
Crooksandliars.com · August 11, 2026
'Dumb move, Coke': MAGA senator red hot as Jesus phrases blocked from Coca-Cola cansPro-MAGA Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) joined the attacks on Coca-Cola after fringe conservatives claimed that the soft drink company was in a war with Jesus because a glitch did not allow a custom Christian message on cans.The Utah Republican posted twice this week a…
Raw Story · August 10, 2026
New Anti-Energy Efficiency Bill Will Cost Consumers, Waste EnergyWashington, DC — Yesterday, Senator Mike Lee (R-AZ) introduced a bill that would roll back existing energy efficiency standards and prevent the Department of Energy from updating existing or implementing new strong efficiency standards. The bill would result …
CleanTechnica · August 7, 2026
SAVE America Is Heading In A ‘Very Favorable Direction’By Virginia Grace McKinnon, The Daily Signal | August 05, 2026 Efforts to advance the SAVE America Act received a boost on Wednesday afternoon following what Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, described as a “very productive” Senate Republican meeting. Lee said discussio…
Biztoc.com · August 7, 2026
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