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Summer Lee PA-12

Summer Lee PA-12

Summary

Current Position: US House of Representatives PA-12 since 2023
Affiliation: Democrat
Former Position: Lawyer; Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 34th district from 2019 to 2022
District:   southwestern Pennsylvania, including Pittsburgh and much of Allegheny County, as well as some of Westmoreland County.
Upcoming Election:

Lee became the first black woman to represent Southwestern Pennsylvania in the state legislature. She campaigned for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primaries after graduating.

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Born and raised in the Mon Valley, Summer Lee is a dedicated organizer, attorney, and progressive state legislator. A proud alum of Woodland Hills public schools, Summer grew up in North Braddock and Swissvale before graduating from Penn State and Howard University School of Law, where she focused on civil rights and social justice advocacy. She worked as labor organizer, joining the Fight for $15 to increase the minimum wage, and lead voter mobilization efforts for the Pennsylvania Democratic Party. In 2017, after repeated incidents of violence from police and school administrators against local students, Summer spearheaded a successful write-in initiative that transformed the local school board.

In 2018, at the urging of her neighbors, Summer threw her hat in the ring for State House – taking on a 20-year incumbent, doubling voter turnout, and winning with over 67%of the vote. She also made history, becoming the first Black woman from Western Pennsylvania ever elected to the legislature. Throughout her time in office, Summer has been a voice for working families, and a champion for sustainable jobs, environmental justice, police accountability, reproductive rights, immigration rights, and gender and racial equity. She is a tireless advocate for workers’ rights, unions, the right to organize, and the fight for a liveable wage.

Summer has also brought millions back to her community for infrastructure upgrades and community revitalization. She has also continued to lead efforts to build a more reflective democracy. When corporate polluters pushed a dangerous fracking proposal in her home district, she organized in deep partnership with community leaders and frontline organizations – and won, stopping the proposal in its tracks. In 2019, she co-founded UNITE, a member-driven grassroots organization dedicated to building progressive electoral power up and down the ballot. Since its founding, UNITE has transformed regional politics, helping to expand the electorate, welcome emerging Democratic voters at scale, and elect slates of progressives – judges, magistrates, county councilors, school board members, and more, including Pittsburgh’s first Black mayor, Ed Gainey.

In 2022, Summer was elected to the US House of Representatives for Pennsylvania’s 12th District, becoming the first Black woman ever elected to Congress from Western Pennsylvania.

Personal

Full Name: Summer L. Lee

Gender: Female

Birth Place: Mon Valley, PA

Home City: Swissvale, PA

Source: Vote Smart

Education

JD, Civil Rights and Constitutional Law, Howard University School of Law, 2012-2015

BA, Journalism, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 2005-2009

Political Experience

Representative, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania House of Representatives, District 34, 2019-2023

Representative, United States House of Representatives, Pennsylvania, District 12, 2023-Present

Professional Experience

State Representative, Pennsylvania General Assembly, 2018-present

Former Student Attorney, Howard University School of Law Civil Rights Clinic

Co-Founder, UNITE!, 2019

Summer Intern, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., 2014-2014

Oliver White Hill Fellow, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Incorporated, 2014

Summer Intern, Office of the Attorney General of the District of Columbia, District of Columbia Public Schools General Counsel Office, 2013

Intern, Office of Cross Cultural and Leadership Development, 2009

Offices

WASHINGTON, DC

243 Cannon House Office Building

Washington, DC 20515

(202) 225-2135

PITTSBURGH, PA

211 N Whitfield St.

Suite 802

Pittsburgh, PA 15206

Phone: (412) 214-5000

(771) 200-5826: Fax:

Monday – Friday: 9AM – 5PM

CLAIRTON

551 Ravensburg Boulevard

Clairton, PA 15025

(412) 804-1189

First and Third Wednesday of EVERY month: 10 – 2 PM

JEANNETTE

110 S 2nd Street

Jeannette, PA 15644

(412) 577-6668

First and Third Thursday of EVERY month: 10 – 2 PM

PITTSBURGH BEECHVIEW

1555 Broadway Avenue

2nd Floor

Pittsburgh, PA 15216

(412) 216-5139

Second and Fourth Wednesday of EVERY month:10 – 2 PM

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Politics

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Summer Lee has helped deliver historic levels of federal investment in Western PA!

Summer prevented the new homeless shelter being built in Mckeesport from losing the $1.3 in federal funding necessary to open the shelter and provide housing to those most vulnerable at a moment where there’s rising housing insecurity and unsheltered homelessness.

After the Fair Housing Partnership let us know that they were at risk of being forced to close their doors unless HUD moved up their funding timeline, Summer and her district team successfully advocated for HUD to move the timeline up, ensuring that they can continue to protect Western Pennsylvanians against Housing distribution.

Lee worked with Senators Casey and Fetterman and Rep. Deluzio to secure a $10 million to Catalyst Connection for renewable energy, low-carbon and decarbonized power, smart grid improvements, green buildings, and more.

Serving on the House Space, Science and Technology Committee, Lee helped deliver a $398.6 million from the DOE clean energy financing program loan to fund EOS, a battery storage manufacturer employing thousands of workers in PA-12. Their $500 million Project AMAZE, will create over 1000 clean energy and union construction jobs.

$3 million Federal Grant to CMU to help Pittsburgh Lead the country in Decarbonized Steelmaking Technology

$159 Million grant to Pittsburgh regional transit to provide more rapid transit, allow for the reconnecting of our communities, and adding more reliable service

$17.5 million in a Center for Innovation Grant for public health and emergencies which will help CMU’s Delphi Center become a powerhouse for public health innovation and to help close the representation gap of Black, brown, and marginalized folks in fields like outbreak analytics and disease modeling.

$50 million HUD Choice Housing grant to  revitalize Bedford Dwellings and the Hill district neighborhood, righting past wrongs of racist development decisions by funding much needed rehabilitation and building new affordable housing units.

$11.29 million million Infrastructure investment for Western PA’s regional airports to improve safety, transition to clean energy, and create thousands of good paying jobs. 

$25 million clean energy to communities grant to help Pittsburgh deploy clean energy systems that are reliable, affordable, equitable, and reflective of local priorities.

$1.4 million ‘Reconnecting Communities’ Infrastructure investment to reconnect Pittsburgh’s North Side neighborhood, righting the historic wrongs of economic redlining while boosting small business growth, development, and access to STEM education, training, and jobs. 

Nearly 2 million for clean air monitoring under the Inflation Reduction Act as part of the effort to monitor near industrial facilities, multipollutant monitoring, and air quality sensors in disadvantaged communities.

$52.4 million EPA clean water/lead removal grant to replace lead service lines to right past wrongs and ensure our communities have access to clean water

$1.8 to CMU for Science to Achieve Results – assist community with adaption of strategies to keep metals, pesticides out of water

$1.2 million diaper distribution grant to expand diaper distribution networks for over 2,000 children in Allegheny and Westmoreland County

Helped deliver $20 million grant to CMU to close representation gap in STEM fields

$500,000 for the Carnegie Library of Homestead

$20 million for CMU to research traffic safety

$40.8 million to Astrobotic and Proto Innovation for Research and Development for upcoming Artimus Lunar Landing missions, which will put the first women and first people of color on the moon and create jobs in Western Pennsylvania.

Criss-crossing the district: 

Delivered casework and constituent services to 1,300 constituents (as of 10/11/23) with issues ranging from helping our seniors and disabled community access Medicare and social security to helping folks secure housing and helping families with immigration support and passports.

Had dozens of visits to Westmoreland – everything from our first Senior Service Center to human services providers, municipal councils and managers, to small business openings

Lee and staff have met with over 50 different municipalities (municipal managers, council leaders and mayors) on their needs and opportunities to bring back Federal resources to their communities

Showed up to advocate during crises – meeting with leaders at Elizabeth Forward High School to advocate for resources after much of the school was burned down in a fire 

Held series of mobile senior service centers, so far in Westmoreland County and Bethel Park

Events, small business tours, rallying with workers, community roundtables, visits, mobile hours:

Convened roundtable on trade and business resources with the President of the Export-Import Bank, small business leaders, minority, women and veteran business owners

Lee has regularly joined striking workers, labor unions, and workers organizing to unionize at pickets, rallies, and roundtables, and meetings including over a dozen events with UPMC health workers and hospital workers rising, rallied with Wabtec United Electrical Workers, AFLCIO’s annual lawyers conference, attended multiple rallies with striking Pittsburgh Post Gazette workers in Pittsburgh and Dc, visited Starbucks United Workers, advocated for United Steelworkers to improve relationships with faculty organizing at University of Pittsburgh, hosted UAW in DC, hosted USW in DC, spoke at the AFLCIO Professional Aviation Safety Specialist conference, met with UAW organizers in DC, met with striking SAG and WGA workers in Pittsburgh, joined the Black nurses association’s national conference among others.

Co-hosted local business leaders in DC for conversations on federal investment in the district with the Pittsburgh chamber of commerce and EOS clean battery manufacturer and Carnegie Mellon University.

Headlined Conference for the Keystone Space Collaborative to Encourage and Support Investments in burgeoning space economy in Pittsburgh, STEM education, and closing the representation gap

Toured and met regularly with leadership of EOS battery manufacturers to help shepherd the DOE award for the creation of up to a thousand new clean energy jobs in the Mon Valley

Toured and met regularly with Astrobotic to support and facilitate federal investment in Western PA grown space technology for the Artimus landing, positioning Pittsburgh to lead the country in worker-owned space technology and innovation committed to closing the representation gap

Hosted roundtable to combat food insecurity with local food banks (Greater Pittsburgh and Westmoreland county) and stakeholders to preserve and expand funding for food assistance in the farm bill and budget

In February, Lee toured the site of the horrific Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting, the deadliest antisemetic attack in US history. There, she met with Foundation leadership and family members of those killed in the attack. Lee was profoundly moved by what she saw and the beautiful conversations she had with family members of those that were murdered about what can be done to help heal from the trauma that remains and their vision for the renovated building as a center to educate against antisemitism and hate.

Visited several federally qualified health centers to advocate for federal investment in funding to provide care for uninsured, low income and immigrant communities.

Regularly visited elementary, middle schools, and high schools across the district – including a middle school visit to promote robotics and STEM education with Deputy Administrator of NASA Pamela Melroy.

Partnered with Shapiro on school breakfast, teacher pay, and continues to lead the fight for universal school lunch, pushing Shapiro to follow the lead of the Governors of Michigan and Minnesota.

Partnered with Governor Shapiro to help launch $150M partnership to improve access to STEM education at CMU

Partnered with Governor Shapiro to Creates First-in-the-Nation Workforce Training Program to Invest $400 Million in On-the-Job Training and Create 10,000 New Jobs and ensure companies, contractors, unions, and others who are working to build Pennsylvania’s infrastructure have the skilled workforce they need while creating real opportunity for thousands of new workers across the Commonwealth.

In just 8 months in office Lee has already hosted the following Federal Cabinet Secretaries and Agency Heads for Tours of Western PA, Roundtables, and Community forums:

Lee hosted HHS Secretary Xavier Becera for a Community Round Table on Lowering Health Care Costs for Pittsburgh Seniors with community leaders, health advocates, seniors, and homecare workers.

Lee hosted President and Chair of the Export Import Bank Reta Jo Lewis to convene PA small businesses, local officials to discuss financing resources for U.S. exporters in PA

Lee hosted NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy in a 2 Day Pittsburgh Space Week Tour including Keystone Space Collaborative, middle school robotics visit and Astrobotic

Lee Hosted the Regional Administer for HUD to announce a $50 million neighborhood revitalization grant, with the goal of rehabilitating the housing at Bedford Dwellings, along with making “investments to create a neighborhood that is vibrant, well-connected to services and public transportation, and is safe and welcoming for Pittsburgh residents,”

FTC Chair Lina Khan, HUD Secretary Martha Fudge Fudge, and CFPB Chair Rohit Chopra have also accepted Lee’s request to visit Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional district.

Additional Federal Funding Lee Expects to Deliver in the Coming Months:

The House Appropriations Subcommittees have advanced $10.7 million in community project funding introduced by Lee to revitalize infrastructure, combat hunger, address housing insecurity, reconnect communities, and so much more, including:

$1 million for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank that will distribute more than 33 million pounds of food annually to 400,000 individuals in need across our communities. As someone who depended on food assistance when times were tough growing up, I know how crucial this funding will be to combat food insecurity and ensure no person in Western PA goes to bed hungry. Disclosure Letter: HERE

$1,000,000 Granted for YMCA of Greater Pittsburgh to enhance accessibility, improve infrastructure, and allow them to continue to serve as a vital center for health, wellness, and community services in the Northside–from childcare and teen outreach to senior activities.” Disclosure Letter: HERE

$1,000,000 Granted for Tree of Life Educational Space Rebuild to create a vital community gathering space to educate against antisemitism and white supremacy in all its forms–breathing life back into a community hub that has remained dormant following the tragic antisemitic attack.” HERE

$1,050,000 Granted For Homewood Fields and Community Complex in Pittsburgh (City of Pittsburgh) to construct a state-of-the-art sports and community performance space, which will include a field house, amphitheater, and community gathering space. This project will function as a key anti-violence strategy in Homewood, a neighborhood which consistently experiences high levels of youth violence. More importantly, the new park will provide the foundation for intensive collaboration between the city’s anti-violence initiatives and key Homewood community institutions committed to helping young people invest in their own lives and value the lives of others, through violence interruption, job training, coaching, and interventions with spectators and parents. Disclosure letter: HERE

$500,000 Granted Urban Redevelopment Authority – Ground Floor Commercial Activation in Affordable Housing: to build affordable ground floor or street-level housing and commercial in mixed-use Low Income Housing Tax Credits-financed projects across the City of Pittsburgh. This project will address housing affordability, support entrepreneurship and small business, as well as attract and retain businesses. This project would also provide critical funding towards mixed-use developments with affordable housing and neighborhood-serving commercial components that will otherwise experience significant funding gaps. Disclosure letter: HERE

$461,197 Granted for Jubilee Kitchen Facility Expansion and Renovation Project. Jubilee Association, Inc. will renovate a homeless prevention program in a low-income community by expanding and renovating their current facility to address significant safety, accessibility, and space issues. This project will give the facility greater space to meet food, clothing, and counseling needs and improve facility safety to continue providing necessary services preventing homelessness and offering high-quality, affordable childcare for low-income families providing their children pathways to a brighter future. Disclosure letter: HERE

$450,000 Granted for Trade Institute of Pittsburgh’s Social Enterprise Program: This funding would be used for providing graduates of the Trade Institute of Pittsburgh’s 11-week masonry program for individuals facing barriers to employment with time-limited, paid work experience if they are not yet ready to enter the workforce at the end of the program. This will allow graduates to continue improving their skills to obtain gainful employment. Disclosure Letter: HERE

$500,000 Granted to Tri-COG Land Bank Modular Houses on Blighted Land in McKeesport: This project will recover plots of abandoned, blighted and demolition land in the McKeesport Area School District and transform them into sustainable and permanently affordable homeownership opportunities. This funding will improve the McKeesport Area School District community, a distressed community, by remediating seven blighted properties, creating permanently affordable homeownership opportunities, help stabilize property values, and help spur neighborhood revitalization. Disclosure letter: HERE

$963,000 Granted For City of Pittsburgh Criminal Justice Diversion Program: The City of Pittsburgh seeks funding to support its Criminal Justice Diversion Program, also known as Law Enforcement Assisted Diversion (LEAD), which is a program situated within the Office of Community Health and Safety. The LEAD initiative for the City of Pittsburgh will provide people with substance use disorder and mental and behavioral health challenges with person-centered social services and intense case management. This initiative will help relieve police of a role they feel unsuited for and permit them to focus on violent crime, by preventing unnecessary, and harmful criminal-legal system engagement and instead will promote and support individual agency, particularly in communities of color. Disclosure letter: HERE

$959,757 Granted for the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority Storm Sewer Project: This project will renovate the grounds to a landscaped, green space that can be used by the children. Second, the teacher parking lot will be re-configured and built with permeable pavers to capture rainfall.  Third, under the parking lot, a stormwater storage unit will be constructed to capture stormwater and slowly release the water to the combined sewer system thereby reducing combined sewer overflows to the Monongahela River. This project will help Homestead Borough achieve its regulatory compliance related to combined sewer overflow abatement.

$850,000 Granted for the McKeesport Duquesne Bridge Preservation: Pennsylvania Department of Transportation wishes will perform bridge preservation and maintenance activities on the McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge that will extend service life and maintain a safe and reliable crossing over the Monongahela River and multiple railroads. The McKeesport-Duquesne Bridge connects several low-income and minority environmental justice communities on either side of the Monongahela River. On the Southern side of the bridge, more than 50% of the households are low-income. On both sides of the river are communities that are made up of 75% minority populations. PennDOT will cover the required match, which will be App. 581 State highway funds. Disclosure letter: HERE

$547,000 Granted Extended Support for 10.27 Healing Partnership to respond to and address the ongoing trauma from the 2018 Synagogue Mass Shooting in the lead-up to and in the aftermath of the trial. The goal of this project is to deepen the effectiveness of community-based work initiated by the initial investment from the federal government after the attack, focused on victim support, healing, and increasing the capacity of community partners to navigate trauma and resiliency following this horrific mass casualty event and the ongoing threat of antisemitism, white supremacy, and gun violence Disclosure letter: HERE

$500,000 Granted for Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh – Larimer Food Incubator & Community Kitchen. The Urban Redevelopment Authority of Pittsburgh will repurpose the vacant and former Larimer School building to build a full-service community kitchen, event space and small business food incubator. This funding will support commercial development of the neighborhood by transforming 9800 square feet of the former school auditorium. This project will bring the Larimer community up to par with neighboring communities that have seen rapid development in recent years. This will be an economic catalyst for the community through job creation, support for small local businesses, food preparation and safety classes, training programs, and health and wellness programs. Disclosure letter: HERE

$500,000 Granted to Westmoreland County – 4th Street Bridge Improvement in Irwin: Westmoreland County will replace a roadway bridge that runs over the Norfolk Southern Railway in Irwin. This project will reconnect the town with the main road that has been divided by the railroad for over 100 years and closed to traffic since 2014. Funding through this request will expedited project execution by adding to funds previously secured through the Southwest Pennsylvania Commission (SPC) Transportation Improvement Plan (TIP). Disclosure letter: HERE

$500,000 Granted for SR 2046, Streets Run Road Resurfacing in Whitehall: Pennsylvania Department of Transportation will rehabilitate the entire length of S.R. 2046 to combat deteriorating, poor pavement quality that is at an increasing risk of landslide. This road connects commercial, industrial, and residential properties in the municipality of Whitehall. The ongoing Curry Hollow Road expansion will put further demand on this crucial corridor that links the Baldwin Borough to the City of Pittsburgh, as well as Jefferson Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC). Disclosure letter: HERE

Legislation Lee introduced and co-led introduction of the following bills:

Introduced the Bipartisan Abandoned Well Remediation Act – which passed through the Science Space and Technology Committee with a bipartisan vote and awaits a vote by the full House

Lee led a bipartisan group of colleagues in calling on the State Department to work on accountability and institutional reform for historic and ongoing human rights abuses in Sri Lanka against Tamils and Muslims, recognizing the decades of torture for which Sri Lankan perpetrators have yet to be held legally accountable and urging the United States to hold Sri Lanka accountable under the Convention Against Torture

Introduced the The Hazard Pay for Health Care Workers Act to empower the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to issue grants related to a hazard pay of up to $13 per hour / $25,000 per year and implement additional safety measures, such as Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and alternative transit, for essential workers in health care and supporting services who are providing patients with immediate or undisrupted medical assistance during emergencies and extreme weather disasters

Introduced the The Equality in Our Laws Act to make the nation’s legal code more inclusive to women, nonbinary, intersex and gender-nonconforming Americans by replacing masculine generics with gender-neutral language

Introduced VA renaming bill to rename Monroeville VA Facility after WWII veteran Henry Parham, designating the new Department of Veterans Affairs Community-Based Outpatient Clinic (CBOC) in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, as the Henry Parham VA Clinic.

Co-led the Disarm Hate Act to close the dangerous gap in current federal law that contributes to hate-fueled mass shootings by providing that individuals who have been convicted of a misdemeanor-level hate crime, or received an enhanced sentence for a misdemeanor crime after a judicial finding that they acted with hate or bias motivation, are prohibited from buying or possessing guns. All original co-leads represent states and districts that have been impacted by hate-motivated mass shootings, including Lee, who represents the community devastated by the 2018 Pittsburgh Synagogue shooting–the deadliest antisemetic attack in American history.

Co-led the introduction of the Oppose Limitless Inequality Growth and Reverse Community Harm (OLIGARCH) Act to tax extreme wealth, reduce inequality, and combat the threat to democracy posted by aristocracy.

Co-led the Green New Deal for Health Act legislation aimed at empowering the healthcare sector to protect the health and wellbeing of workers, communities, and our planet in the face of the climate crisis and environmental racism.

Co-led the introduction of the Bipartisan DIRECT Care for the Homeless Act to Expand Mental Health, Substance Abuse Care for unhoused individuals by requiring the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to create a pilot program that would help provide health care services directly to homeless individuals across the U.S.

Co-led the Justice for All Act to restore the original intent of our civil rights laws by reaffirming the availability of discrimination claims based on disparate impact

Co-led the introduction of the Relieving Economic Strain to Enhance American Resilience and Competitiveness in Higher Education and Research (RESEARCHER) Act to curb financial insecurity in higher education and improve Western PA competitiveness by addressing financial instability for graduate and postdoctoral researchers.

Lee was proud to be an original co-sponsor of the following bills:

Pro Act to restore the right of workers to freely and fairly form a union and bargain together for changes in the workplace.

Womens Health Protection Act to enshrine the right for health care professionals to administer and patients to receive abortion care across the country, free from bans and unnecessary restrictions

Raise the Wage Act to raise the minimum wage to $17 by 2028 for nearly 28 million Americans.

Medicare for All Act to expands Medicare to provide comprehensive benefits to every person in the United States, free of copays, premiums, and deductibles.

Black Maternal Health Momnibus Act to end the Black maternal health epidemic critical investments in the social determinants of health, extend WIC eligibility, provide funding for community-based organizations, improve maternal health care for veterans, invest to grow and diversify the perinatal workforce, improve data collection, support maternal mental health, improve maternal health care and support for incarcerated moms, and so much more to address the maternal health crisis that disproportionately affects Black women across the country.

Social Security 2100 Act to Increase and expand Social Security benefits by 2% across the board, improves COLA adjustments, increases benefits for low-income seniors, and ensures its solvency.

College for All Act to expand the dream of a college degree to millions of Americans by making public colleges and universities, as well as the vast majority of Historically-Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs), and other Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) tuition- and debt-free.

Green New Deal for Public Schools Act to revitalize the K-12 system by upgrading every public school building in the country, invest in schools serving low-income students, fully funding education for students with disabilities, and giving schools resources to hire hundreds of thousands of educators, paraprofessionals, staff, and counselors to support student mental health.

Ending Qualified Immunity Act to ends the doctrine of qualified immunity that shields police from accountability when they break the law.

Universal School Meals Program Act to permanently provide free breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack to all school children.

Click here to view a full list of 165 bills Lee has co sponsored 

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District

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Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district is located in southwestern Pennsylvania, including Pittsburgh and much of Allegheny County, as well as some of Westmoreland County. Since January 3, 2023, it has been represented by Summer Lee.

Before 2018, the 12th district was located in southwestern Pennsylvania and included all of Beaver County, and parts of Allegheny, Cambria, Lawrence, Somerset, and Westmoreland Counties. The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania redrew this and other state congressional districts in February 2018 after ruling the previous map unconstitutional due to partisan gerrymandering. The new 12th district covers much of the old 10th district. The old 12th district was redrawn to an area north and west of Pittsburgh and renamed the 17th district for the 2018 elections and representation after that.[2]

Before the 2011 round of redistricting, the 12th district was widely considered to be gerrymandered by the Republican-controlled state legislature as a heavily Democratic district. It consisted of all of Greene County, and parts of Allegheny, Armstrong, Cambria, Fayette, Indiana, Somerset, Washington, and Westmoreland Counties.

Wikipedia

Summer Lynn Lee (born November 26, 1987)[1] is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district since 2023. Lee was the Democratic nominee in the 2022 election to represent Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. She won the primary by less than 1% of the vote and became the first black woman from Pennsylvania in the House of Representatives after winning the general election.[2][3][4][5]

A member of the Democratic Party, Lee was a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 34th district from 2019 to 2022.[6] With the support of the local chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA),[7] Lee was also the first black woman to represent Southwestern Pennsylvania in the state legislature.[6]

Early life and education

Of African American heritage, Lee was raised in North Braddock, Pennsylvania, and attended Woodland Hills High School. She graduated with a B.A. in Journalism, Minors: International studies, French from Pennsylvania State University in 2009 and earned a Juris Doctor from the Howard University School of Law in 2015.[1][8][9] She campaigned for Bernie Sanders in the 2016 Democratic primaries after graduating.[10]

Pennsylvania House of Representatives

See also: 2018 Pennsylvania House of Representatives election

Lee challenged incumbent Representative Paul Costa in the Democratic primary for the 34th district in 2018. An organizer from Pittsburgh’s DSA chapter approached her about running after she led a successful write-in campaign for a school board candidate.[10] She defeated Costa, 67.8% to 32.2%, attributing her victory to grassroots campaigning.[11] She was unopposed in the general election.

Committee assignments

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2022

See also: 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania § District 12
Lee announcing her congressional campaign

In October 2021, Lee announced her candidacy for Pennsylvania’s 18th congressional district after the incumbent representative, Mike Doyle, announced his retirement.[13] After Pennsylvania’s new congressional districts were chosen in February 2022, most of the old 18th district, including Pittsburgh as well as parts of the Mon Valley and Westmoreland County, became the 12th district, and Lee announced she would run there.[14]

Lee won the Democratic primary election on May 17, 2022, defeating rival Steve Irwin. Though Irwin had an early lead on election night with early and mail-in ballots, Lee emerged with a victory of around 740 votes once in-person Election Day votes were counted. She won the Allegheny County portion of the district by almost 4,500 votes. Most networks had declared Lee the winner by May 20, and Irwin conceded that day.[15]

In the November 8 general election, Lee defeated Republican Mike Doyle (no relation to the Democratic incumbent).[16]

Lee simultaneously ran for reelection to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; she was reelected to a third term with little opposition, but was required to resign the seat to assume her new role in the U.S. House, which she did on December 7, 2022.[17][18] With elections in the 32nd district, where incumbent Tony DeLuca died in October 2022 but was reelected posthumously to a 21st term,[19] and the 35th district, where incumbent Austin Davis was simultaneously reelected to a third full term and elected lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania, an unusual situation arose in which the Democratic Party gained control of the chamber, having won 102 seats to the Republican Party’s 101 in the 2022 elections, but would begin the new legislative term with just 99 members, due to these three vacancies in solidly Democratic districts in Allegheny County.[20]

2024

See also: 2024 United States House of Representatives elections in Pennsylvania § District 12

In 2024, Lee faced a primary challenge from Edgewood Councilwoman Bhavini Patel, who ran towards the political center compared to Lee.[21] Amid concerns that her criticism of Israel could cost her renomination in a district with a significant Jewish population, Lee cultivated endorsements from prominent Democrats including House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Bob Casey Jr.[22] The race between Lee and Patel, who is pro-Israel, was seen as a bellwether for other primary races where pro-Israel candidates are challenging progressive, Israel-critical incumbents.[23] Ultimately Lee defeated Patel,[24] but unlike Lee fellow progressive Israel critics Jamaal Bowman and Cori Bush were defeated for renomination by pro-Israel candidates who, unlike Patel, received backing from the pro-Israel AIPAC.[25][26][27]

Tenure

Abortion

Lee supports abortion rights.[28] Lee joined forty other House Democrats in a letter calling on the Biden Administration to use all means possible to preserve FDA approval for Mifepristone and protect access to these treatments nationwide, in response to a ruling by Northern District of Texas Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk.[29][30]

Affirmative action

In response to the Supreme Court‘s decision in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, which held that race-based affirmative action programs in college admissions processes violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, Lee stated that she was “disgusted that our country just enshrined racial inequity in higher education and economic immobility into law.[31]

Economy

Lee was among the 46 Democrats who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House.[32] She was the only no-vote among western Pennsylvania house members.[33] She had previously decried Republicans’ willingness to take the country “to the brink of economic catastrophe” to win budget concessions.[34]

Gun control

On March 29, 2023, two Pittsburgh Catholic schools received what investigators deemed were hoax active shooter threats that prompted evacuations, lockdowns and large responses from police.[35] This came two days after a highly publicized school shooting in Nashville.[36] In response, Lee said that having to endure active shootings and related evacuations, drills and hoaxes is “no way for our kids to live,” and blamed the proliferation of guns in America for causing the widespread panic of the fake active shooting reports.[37]

On April 7, 2023, Lee harshly criticized the Tennessee House‘s expulsion of Democratic representatives Justin Pearson and Justin Jones.[38] The lawmakers were expelled after joining a protest against mass shootings on the Tennessee house floor.[39] Her criticism was also aimed at Republican‘s overall treatment of gun control, saying “people are dying because Republicans want to put politics over the lives of the people they represent. They ask for safety for themselves, but not for school children, and they’ll sacrifice the lives of our loved ones for their lobbyists.”[40]

Infrastructure

After a Norfolk Southern train derailed in Pittsburgh on April 8, 2023, Lee called for more accountability from railroads, and protection from so-called “bomb trains” that carry hazardous materials through populated areas.[41] This was two months after a train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, which also involved a Norfolk Southern train.[42] In response to these events, Lee publicly supported multiple bills in Congress that look to enforce strict regulations on the rail industry.[43] She is an original co-sponsor of the DERAIL Act, which would put stricter federal rail safety regulations in place that were rolled back during the Trump administration.[44][45]

Iran

Lee and other progressive Democrats voted against a resolution condemning Iran’s aerial attack on Israel in April.[46] She also voted against an embargo on sending American technology to Iran and a resolution requesting the European Union designate Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.[47]

Israel and Palestine

On April 4, 2023, Lee joined Senator Bernie Sanders, and at least nine House Democrats, in signing a letter to President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken expressing concern over rising violence between Israelis and Palestinians and the new Israeli government’s attempt to weaken the country’s independent judiciary.[48]

On April 25, 2023, Lee was one of 19 Representatives (18 Democrats and 1 Republican) to vote against House Resolution 311, a resolution honoring America’s relationship with Israel on the 75th anniversary of its independence.[49]

On May 5, 2023, Lee was one of 17 cosponsors of the “Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act,” which “prohibits U.S. taxpayer funding to the Government of Israel from being used for the military detention, abuse, or ill-treatment of Palestinian children in Israeli military detention.”[50][51][52]

On June 13, 2023, Lee was one of 13 representatives (eleven Democrats and two Republicans) who voted against a bill mandating the Biden administration appoint a special envoy for the Abraham Accords.[53]

On July 18, 2023, she voted against, along with eight other Progressive Democrats (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Cori Bush, Jamaal Bowman, André Carson, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Delia Ramirez, and Rashida Tlaib), a non-binding resolution proposed by August Pfluger which states that “the State of Israel is not a racist or apartheid state“, that Congress rejects “all forms of antisemitism and xenophobia” and that “the United States will always be a staunch partner and supporter of Israel.”[54] In a tweet, Congresswoman Lee wrote, “I reject antisemitism and xenophobia in all its forms. Whether we’re talking about India, Israel, or Sri Lanka, we are not true allies if we cannot push our partners to uphold basic human rights & democratic values.”[55]

On October 25, 2023, Lee and eight other progressive Democrats (Ocasio-Cortez, Bowman, Bush, Carson, Omar, Ramirez, Tlaib, and Al Green), along with Republican Thomas Massie, voted against a resolution supporting Israel in the wake of the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. The resolution stated that the House of Representatives: “stands with Israel as it defends itself against the barbaric war launched by Hamas and other terrorists” and “reaffirms the United States’ commitment to Israel’s security”; the resolution passed by an overwhelming 412-10-6 margin.[56][57] Lee has instead voiced support for a ceasefire in the wake of Israel’s military campaign against Hamas,[21] co-sponsoring an opposing resolution demanding a ceasefire in the conflict.[58] She has condemned Hamas’s attack. She has also accused Israel of war crimes.[23] Lee voted against a foreign aid package for Israel.[59]

Russia

Lee, along with nearly fifty other members of Congress, were barred from entering Russia on May 19, 2023.[60][61]

Syria

In 2023, Lee was among 56 Democrats to vote in favor of H.Con.Res. 21, which directed President Joe Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days.[62][63]

TikTok

In light of a potential ban on TikTok in the United States, Lee has supported the platform, calling it “an incredible organizing tactic.”[64][65] She voted against a bill that would force TikTok’s parent company to sell the app or face a ban.[66]

Caucus memberships

Committee assignments

Electoral history

2018

2018 Democratic primary for Pennsylvania State Representative District 34[69]
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticSummer Lee 6,914 67.77
DemocraticPaul Costa (incumbent)3,28832.23
Total votes10,202 100
2018 General election Pennsylvania State Representative District 34[70]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Summer Lee Unopposed
Total votes21,240 100.0%
Democratic hold

2020

2020 Democratic primary for Pennsylvania State Representative District 34[71]
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticSummer Lee 11,863 76.36
DemocraticChristopher Roland3,67223.64
Total votes15,535 100
2020 General election Pennsylvania State Representative District 34[72]
PartyCandidateVotes%
Democratic Summer Lee Unopposed
Total votes27,129 100.0%
Democratic hold

2022

2022 Democratic primary for U.S. Representative[73]
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticSummer Lee 48,002 41.9
DemocraticSteve Irwin47,01441.0
DemocraticJerry Dickinson12,44010.9
DemocraticJeff Woodard5,4544.8
DemocraticWilliam Parker1,6701.5
Total votes114,580 100
2022 Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district election
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticSummer Lee 184,674 56.2
RepublicanMike Doyle[a]143,94643.8
Total votes328,620 100
Democratic hold

2024

2024 Pennsylvania’s 12th Congressional District Democratic Primary[74]
PartyCandidateVotes%
DemocraticSummer Lee 64,594 60.65
DemocraticBhavini Patel41,90239.35
Total votes106,496 100

Personal life

Lee lives in Swissvale, Pennsylvania.[10]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ No relationship to the Democratic incumbent

References

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  30. ^ “Abortion is health care and health care is a human right. This morning, I joined @RepJasmine and 40 @HouseDemocrats in calling on the Biden Administration to use all means possible to preserve @US_FDA approval for #Mifepristone & protect access to these treatments nationwide”. Twitter. April 8, 2023.
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Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Preceded by

 Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives
from the 34th district
2019–2022		Succeeded by

U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by

 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Pennsylvania’s 12th congressional district
2023–present		Incumbent
U.S. order of precedence (ceremonial)
Preceded by

 United States representatives by seniority
395th		Succeeded by


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