Rep. Rick Allen
Representative for Georgia’s 12th District
pronounced rik // AL-un
![Photo of Rep. Rick Allen [R-GA12]](/static/legislator-photos/412625-200px.jpeg)
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his senior government advisors, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided by themselves rather than by voters. Their attempts to suppress state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and by using lies and fraudulent documents was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.
Allen was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. Shortly after the election, Allen joined a case before the Supreme Court calling for all the votes for president in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states that were narrowly won by Democrats — to be discarded, in order to change the outcome of the election. In the case, Republicans proffered lies and a novel legal theory which the Supreme Court rejected. (Following the rejection of several related cases before the Supreme Court, another legislator who joined the case called for violence.) On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Allen voted to omit Arizona and/or Pennsylvania from the counting of presidential electors, which could have altered the outcome of the election in Trump’s favor.
The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors. In 2023 and 2024, Trump advisors and associates were charged and in some cases convicted of submitting fraudulent slates of electors to Congress (in AZ, NV, and AZ), abetting lies, assaulting police officers at the Capitol, tampering with voting machines after the election, and contempt of Congress for withholding documents during its investigation, and Trump faces criminal charges for soliciting the Vice President to subvert Congress’s certification of the election, his role in the fraudulent slates of electors, and the insurrection at the Capitol.
Earmarks
Allen did not request any earmarks for fiscal year 2024.
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Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Allen is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills Allen has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to May 10, 2024. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Rick Allen sits on the following committees:
Enacted Legislation
Allen was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 3944: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 120 West Church Street in Mount Vernon, Georgia, as the “Second Lieutenant Patrick Palmer Calhoun Post …
- H.R. 3946 (115th): An Act to name the Department of Veterans Affairs community-based outpatient clinic in Statesboro, Georgia, the Ray Hendrix Department of Veterans Affairs Clinic.
Does 2 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Allen sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Labor and Employment (40%) Education (25%) Science, Technology, Communications (15%) Immigration (10%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (10%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Allen recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 7578: Promote Secure Connectivity to Taiwan Act
- H.J.Res. 117: Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, …
- H.Res. 1022: Expressing support for the designation of the month of March 2024 as “National …
- H.R. 6236: Nuclear Licensing Efficiency Act
- H.R. 5339: RETIRE Act
- H.R. 4320: Truth in Employment Act of 2023
- H.R. 3944: To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 120 …
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2015 to May 2024, Allen missed 79 of 5,406 roll call votes, which is 1.5%. This is on par with the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
