U.S. Representative, PA-12 · Democratic · in office since Jan. 3, 2025
Summer L. Lee
U.S. Representative · Pennsylvania-12 · Democratic · since Jan. 2025
Overall grade · among representatives
No. 85 of 358
+0.25σ · 35% of the grade measured
How this grade is built
35%Bills they move (LES)+0.25
30%Pennsylvania: how it moved on their watchreserved
25%Alignment (promises vs. votes)reserved
10%Attendancereserved
| Their own record | Value |
|---|
| Legislative effectiveness LES · chamber avg = 1.0 | |
| Missed votes | 0.1% |
| Ideology 0 = left · 1 = right (GovTrack) | 0.18 |
| Promises kept | In human review |
Pennsylvania context — not this member’s grade
House members represent a district, not the whole state, so state numbers aren’t their grade. District-level scoring is in development.
Federal spending during Lee’s current term
Total U.S. federal outlays for each fiscal year of Lee’s current term. This is the whole federal budget — mostly Social Security, Medicare, defense, interest on the debt, and prior commitments — not money Lee personally directed. A president proposes and Congress appropriates; no single official controls it.
FY25$7.01T−$1.77T deficit A representative serves a district, not a state, and no honest district-level outcome trend exists yet — redistricting redrew the lines and leaves too few data points. So Lee is graded on what they control: how effectively they move legislation and how they vote. The state’s numbers are shown as context on the card, never folded into the grade, until district-level scoring ships.
Legislative Effectiveness Scores come from the Center for Effective Lawmaking, which benchmarks each chamber’s average to 1.0. Voting statistics come from GovTrack. The Honesty ledger — promises matched against this member’s votes — publishes only with an evidence trail and two agreeing human reviews.