Press Releases
(PITTSBURGH, PA) – Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-12) held a Community Round Table on Lowering Health Care Costs for Pittsburgh Seniors with Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary, Xavier Becerra, community leaders, health advocates, seniors, and homecare workers.
"Back home in Western PA and across America, working people are rising up like never before"
Congresswoman Lee said, "Back home in Western PA and across America, working people are rising up like never before–speaking out, striking at record levels, and demanding livable wages, safe conditions, and unions for all."
(WASHINGTON, D.C.)-- Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-12) announced Nila Payton, Organizer for Hospital Workers Rising, will be her guest for President Biden's State of the Union address.
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"This Isn't politics for Me. It's the difference between life or death for my community"
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- Today, Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-12) spoke at her first Oversight and Accountability Committee Hearing on COVID-19 relief spending, where Republicans attacked the pandemic relief programs that experts estimate reduced the poverty rate in 2021 by more than 12 million people and reduced child poverty by 56%.
Congresswoman Summer Lee said, "This isn't just politics for me.
(WASHINGTON, D.C.) -- Congresswoman Summer Lee (PA-1
Policy recommendations call for every level of government to rein in anti-competitive behavior, ensure workers have a voice, remove barriers to seeking better options, and make sure UPMC lives up to its obligations as a non-profit
Congresswoman Summer Lee and State Representative Sara Innamorato will hold a virtual press conference on Thursday morning to present a new report on the effect UPMC's monopoly and monopsony power is having on hospital workers and patients.
Office Also Announces New Communications Director and Senior Advisor
Today Summer Lee was sworn into the U.S. House of Representatives to serve Pennsylvania's 12th Congressional District in the 118th Congress. Representative Lee made history as the first Black woman ever elected to Congress from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the first Democratic woman and the first Black member to represent Allegheny County and Pittsburgh in Congress.