Sen. Kelly Loeffler
Former Senator for Georgia
pronounced KEH-lee // LEF-ler
Loeffler was a senator from Georgia and was a Republican. She served from 2020 to 2021.
![Photo of Sen. Kelly Loeffler [R-GA, 2020-2021]](/https/www.govtrack.us/static/legislator-photos/456790-200px.jpeg)
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. After the 2020 Presidential Election, President Trump, his advisors and associates, and Republican legislators collaborated in a failed coup to have the election decided by themselves rather than by voters.
Loeffler was among the Republican legislators who participated in this. In the days leading up to January 6, 2021’s congressional certification of the election by counting electors, Loeffler announced her intent to object to the inclusion of some states in the count based on debunked accusations of mass fraud or a legal theory which was already rejected. (She ultimately did not vote to exclude any states from the Electoral College, however.)
In 2023, Trump associates and top advisors pleaded guilty to submitting a fraudulent slate of electors to Congress from Georgia, making false statements about purported widespread fraud in the election, and tampering with voting machines after the election, admitted in civil court to posing as fake electors in Wisconsin, and were convicted of contempt of Congress for withholding documents during its investigation and assaulting police officers at the Capitol. Trump associates and top advisors are also currently facing charges for submitting fraudulent slates of electors to Congress in Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, and Wisconsin. Trump himself faces related criminal charges in state court, and a federal investigation which terminated because he won re-election alleged that Trump sought to ignore true vote counts, manufactured fraudulent slates of presidential electors, and used the January 6 riot to obstruct the congressional certification of the presidential election. Trump was impeached but not convicted in 2021 for incitement of insurrection related to the same events. (He was also impeached but not convicted of using the presidency to solicit the help of a foreign government to benefit his reelection in 2019, and he was convicted in state court in 2024 for falsifying business records to cover up acts that he believed might have hurt him in the 2016 election.) The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups one member of which was convicted of sedition, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2020 Report Card for Loeffler.
Enacted Legislation
Loeffler was the primary sponsor of 5 bills that were enacted:
- S. 4858 (116th): Reducing Veteran Homelessness Act of 2020
- S. 4520 (116th): VA–SBA Act
- S. 3643 (116th): VA Mission Telehealth Clarification Act
- S. 3438 (116th): R–DOCS Reauthorization Act of 2020
- S. 3437 (116th): Improving Care in Rural America Reauthorization Act of 2020
Does 5 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
Loeffler sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Crime and Law Enforcement (29%) Health (17%) Armed Forces and National Security (11%) Commerce (11%) Taxation (11%) Government Operations and Politics (9%) Science, Technology, Communications (6%) Education (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Loeffler recently introduced the following legislation:
- S. 5011 (116th): Economic Empowerment for Underserved Communities Act
- S. 5012 (116th): Holding Sexual Predators and Online Enablers Accountable Act of 2020
- S. 4858 (116th): Reducing Veteran Homelessness Act of 2020
- S. 4828 (116th): Stop Suppressing Speech Act of 2020
- S.Res. 747 (116th): A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate condemning the politicization of …
- S. 4721 (116th): Securing Our Elections Act of 2020
- S. 4649 (116th): Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2020
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2020 to Jan 2021, Loeffler missed 53 of 293 roll call votes, which is 18.1%. This is much worse than the median of 2.4% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Jan 2021. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absences, 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
- Office of Kelly Loeffler for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
