Summer L. Lee
Democrat · PA-12 · U.S. House
PA-12 — U.S. House
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Bio
Summer Lynn Lee is an American politician and social activist serving as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district since 2023. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Her district includes Pittsburgh, much of southern and eastern Allegheny County, and part of western Westmoreland County. After winning the 2022 congressional primary and the general election, Lee became the first Black woman to represent Pennsylvania in Congress.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.7 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 342 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 38
- Clairton, PA · 412-214-5000
- Bethel Park, PA · 412-214-5000
- Pittsburgh, PA · 412-214-5000
- Pittsburgh, PA · 412-412-5000
- Jeannette, PA · 412-214-5000
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
- $0 – $0
- Liabilities
- $265k – $550k
- Net worth
- −$550k – −$265k
- Since 2023
- +$0
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
Summer L. 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
Summer L. Lee (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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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.
Caucuses
- Congressional Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 95 members
- Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Education and Workforcecenter · 37 members
- House Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 44 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
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