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.

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Record of service

In office: 15.7 years
First took office: 2011 (3 terms)
Seniority: 44 of 100 by time served
Age: 55
Senate class: 3 · senior senator

District offices

Ogden, UT · 801-392-9633
Salt Lake City, UT · 801-524-5933
Vernal, UT · 435-503-9335
St. George, UT · 435-628-5514

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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

2016

$103k

2018

$207k

2019

$207k

2020

$307k

2021

$323k

2022

$315k

2023

$391k

2024

−$359k

2025

−$335k

Most recent filing (2025)

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.30

Healthcare

R+0.76

Immigration & Border

R+0.93

Guns

R+0.57

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.33

Environment & Energy

R+0.79

Crime & Policing

R+0.62

Defense & Veterans

R+0.14

Economy & Labor

R+0.86

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.49

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.54

Education

R+0.88

Government & Democracy

R+0.52

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+0.86

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.

91%Closest

67%

37%

28%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

24%

Communist Party USA

23%

On the political map

Mike Lee (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

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

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.