Rep. Rick Allen

Representative for Georgia’s 12^th District

pronounced rik // AL-un

Allen is the representative for Georgia’s 12^th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 6, 2015. Allen’s current term ends on Jan 3, 2025. He is 73 years old.

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Elections must be decided by counting votes

Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his advisors and associates, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided by themselves rather than by voters through their attempts to suppress state-certified election results at both the state and national level.

Allen was among the Republican legislators who participated in this. 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.

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 facing charges for submitting fraudulent slates of electors to Congress (in Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, and Wisconsin) and Trump himself faces related criminal charges in state court. (He was also convicted in 2024 of 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.

Earmarks

Allen did not request any earmarks for fiscal year 2024.

Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district. More about FY2024 earmark requests from Demand Progress Education Fund »

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 legislators have sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Nov 26, 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:

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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 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Allen sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Labor and Employment (40%) Education (20%) Science, Technology, Communications (16%) Finance and Financial Sector (8%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (8%) Immigration (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Allen recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Allen voted Yea

H.R. 6572: Deploying American Blockchains Act of 2023

Passed 334/79 on May 15, 2024.

Allen voted Not Voting

H.Res. 1160: Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 8034) making emergency supplemental appropriations to respond to the situation in …

Passed 316/94 on Apr 19, 2024.

Allen voted Nay

H.R. 6448: Invest to Protect Act of 2022

Passed 360/64 on Sep 22, 2022.

Allen voted Nay

H.R. 8351: Formula Act

Passed 421/2 on Jul 15, 2022.

Allen voted Yea

H.R. 7900: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023

Passed 329/101 on Jul 14, 2022.

Allen voted Nay

H.R. 2490: To amend the National Trails System Act to direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study …

Passed 402/10 on Feb 26, 2020.

Allen voted Yea

H.R. 5363: Fostering Undergraduate Talent by Unlocking Resources for Education Act

Passed 319/96 on Dec 10, 2019.

Allen voted Nay

H.R. 4465: Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Extension Act of 2017

Passed 392/6 on Mar 13, 2018.

H.R. 4465 extends through 2023, the specific authority of the Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) to collect and spend certain proceeds from the sale of electricity …

Allen voted No

S. 612: A bill to designate the Federal building and United States courthouse located at 1300 Victoria Street in Laredo, …

Passed 360/61 on Dec 8, 2016.

The WIIN (Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation) Act was a 277-page bill dealing with federal water policies, particularly for drought-stricken areas. It’s so complex …

Allen voted Nay

S. 1252: Global Food Security Act of 2016

Passed 369/53 on Jul 6, 2016.

The Global Food Security Act of 2016 (Pub.L. 114–195), is a law introduced on March 24, 2015 in the 114th Congress by Representative Christopher Henry …

Allen voted Yea

H.R. 2048: Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ensuring Effective Discipline Over Monitoring Act of 2015

Passed 338/88 on May 13, 2015.

The USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048, Pub.L. 114–23) is a U.S. law enacted on June 2, 2015 that restored in modified form several provisions of …

Allen voted Nay

H.R. 23: National Windstorm Impact Reduction Act Reauthorization of 2015

Passed 381/39 on Jan 7, 2015.

Missed Votes

From Jan 2015 to Nov 2024, Allen missed 81 of 5,689 roll call votes, which is 1.4%. This is better than the median of 2.2% 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.

Show the numbers...

Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2015 Jan-Mar	144	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Apr-Jun	244	2	0.8%	41^st
2015 Jul-Sep	139	0	0.0%	0^th
2015 Oct-Dec	177	0	0.0%	0^th
2016 Jan-Mar	137	2	1.5%	31^st
2016 Apr-Jun	204	11	5.4%	78^th
2016 Jul-Sep	232	1	0.4%	22^nd
2016 Nov-Dec	48	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jan-Mar	208	2	1.0%	39^th
2017 Apr-Jun	136	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Jul-Sep	199	0	0.0%	0^th
2017 Oct-Dec	167	1	0.6%	26^th
2018 Jan-Mar	129	2	1.6%	37^th
2018 Apr-Jun	184	3	1.6%	37^th
2018 Jul-Sep	102	4	3.9%	79^th
2018 Nov-Dec	85	4	4.7%	76^th
2019 Jan-Mar	136	0	0.0%	0^th
2019 Apr-Jun	294	0	0.0%	0^th
2019 Jul-Sep	125	0	0.0%	0^th
2019 Oct-Dec	146	1	0.7%	31^st
2020 Jan-Mar	102	1	1.0%	36^th
2020 Apr-Jun	31	0	0.0%	0^th
2020 Jul-Sep	80	0	0.0%	0^th
2020 Oct-Dec	40	13	32.5%	95^th
2021 Jan-Mar	97	0	0.0%	0^th
2021 Apr-Jun	107	2	1.9%	69^th
2021 Jul-Sep	108	4	3.7%	86^th
2021 Oct-Dec	137	3	2.2%	75^th
2022 Jan-Mar	102	0	0.0%	0^th
2022 Apr-Jun	197	14	7.1%	94^th
2022 Jul-Sep	178	5	2.8%	88^th
2022 Nov-Dec	72	1	1.4%	47^th
2023 Jan-Mar	182	0	0.0%	0^th
2023 Apr-Jun	107	0	0.0%	0^th
2023 Jul-Sep	224	1	0.4%	29^th
2023 Oct-Dec	211	1	0.5%	22^nd
2024 Jan-Mar	104	0	0.0%	0^th
2024 Apr-Jun	231	2	0.9%	33^rd
2024 Jul-Sep	120	1	0.8%	22^nd
2024 Nov-Nov	23	0	0.0%	0^th

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

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Earmarks

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Committee Membership

Enacted Legislation

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Recently Introduced Bills

Voting Record

Key Votes

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Missed Votes

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