U.S. Representative — Georgia's 12th District
Rick Allen
Republican · Georgia
Republican U.S. Representative for Georgia's 12th congressional district. Member of the 119th Congress in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Legislative Record
Recently sponsored bills (50 on record)
- H.R.9798 — Employer Health Plan Flexibility Act (Introduced, Jul 21, 2026)
- H.R.7895 — PBM Kickback Prohibition Act (Introduced, Mar 12, 2026)
- H.R.7195 — Timber Harvesters, Haulers, and Landowners Market Disruptions Relief Act (Introduced, Jan 22, 2026)
- H.R.6122 — BARN Act (Introduced, Nov 19, 2025)
- H.R.5509 — Safe Step Act (Introduced, Sep 19, 2025)
- H.R.5169 — Retire through Ownership Act (Introduced, Sep 8, 2025)
Retire through Ownership Act This bill allows the fiduciary of an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) to rely on a valuation provided by an independent valuation or business appraiser in determining the fair market value of the plan's securities if the securities are not traded on a national… - H.R.4626 — Home Appliance Protection and Affordability Act (Introduced, Jul 23, 2025)
Don’t Mess With My Home Appliances Act This bill modifies the process by which the Department of Energy (DOE) issues or revises energy conservation standards for consumer products such as household appliances, including by requiring DOE to consider additional factors related to the cost and… - H.R.4214 — Clean Air and Building Infrastructure Improvement Act (Introduced, Jun 27, 2025)
Recent floor votes (100 on record)
- Voted Yea on H.R.8884 — Removing Barriers to Work for Disabled Americans Act (Passed, Jul 23, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.Con.Res.89 — Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran (Passed, Jul 23, 2026)
- Voted Yea on H.Con.Res.113 — Establishing the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2027 and setting forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2028 through 2036 (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Yea on H.R.7008 — Stop Insider Trading Act (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.R.7008 — Stop Insider Trading Act (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Yea on H.R.8800 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (Passed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Nay on H.R.8800 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
- Voted Aye on H.R.8800 — On Agreeing to the Amendment (Failed, Jul 22, 2026)
Recently cosponsored bills (12 on record)
- H.R.1502 — North Platte Canteen Congressional Gold Medal Act (Introduced, Jul 22, 2026)
- H.R.9667 — Securing Healthcare and Income Entitlements for Lawfully Domiciled Citizens (SHIELD Citizens) Act (Introduced, Jul 16, 2026)
- H.R.9535 — Securing Agriculture's Workforce Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jun 30, 2026)
- H.R.9453 — End EPA Abuse Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jun 25, 2026)
- H.R.9422 — Medicaid RAC Improvement Act of 2026 (Introduced, Jun 24, 2026)
- H.R.9416 — Ocmulgee Mounds National Park Redesignation Act (Introduced, Jun 24, 2026)
- H.R.8743 — SMART Kids Act (Introduced, Jun 22, 2026)
- H.R.8781 — Title IX Clarification Act of 2026 (Reported, May 14, 2026)
Voting analysis
One of Rick Allen's bills would prohibit kickbacks to pharmacy benefit managers — the intermediaries that sit between drug makers, insurers and pharmacies, and whose margins are invisible to everyone paying at the counter. Legislating against a rebate structure most people have never heard of is a good measure of whether a member is working the actual mechanics of a problem or its rhetoric.
Of the 50 most recent of those, 47 currently sit at Introduced.
Two committees, one subject
He chairs the health, employment, labour and pensions panel at Education and Workforce, and serves as vice chair of communications and technology at Energy and Commerce. Labour tops his classified subjects, well ahead of the rest. That first gavel explains the ordering; the second one shows up nowhere on the recent list.
Sponsored bills carry the Congressional Research Service's own subject classification. Rick Allen's cluster into: Labor and Employment (15), Science, Technology, Communications (8), Education (5), Health (5), Immigration (4), Environmental Protection (2).
The remaining filings run to appliances, building infrastructure and clean air, employer health plan flexibility, and relief for timber harvesters and haulers facing market disruption — the last being the kind of narrow supply-chain measure that reaches a member because a specific industry in a specific place stopped being able to sell its product.
Three departures
All amendment votes; one carried and two failed. There is no completed legislation anywhere in his record where he parted from the conference.
| Roll call | Date | Outcome | Their vote |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R.8800 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 258 | Jul 21, 2026 | Agreed to | Aye (party: Nay) |
| H.R.7567 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 151 | Apr 30, 2026 | Failed | No (party: Yea) |
| H.R.7567 On Agreeing to the Amendment roll call 147 | Apr 30, 2026 | Failed | Aye (party: Nay) |
Below the Georgia Republicans
He departs less often than the state's nine-member Republican House group does on average.
Among the 9 Republicans in the Georgia delegation, the average rate of voting against the party majority is 4.5%. Rick Allen is below that average at 1.4%.
Tenure and attendance
Six terms, first won in the middle of the last decade, and almost no votes missed.
First elected in 2015, now serving across 6 terms. Rick Allen falls in the veteran cohort.
By the numbers
In the 119th Congress, Rick Allen has 72 bills sponsored, 1383 cosponsored, 100 recent floor votes recorded.
Committee assignments
- House Committee on Education and Workforce
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce
- House Committee on Education and Workforce: Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions (Chairman)
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce: Communications and Technology (Vice Chair)
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce: Energy
- House Committee on Energy and Commerce: Oversight and Investigations
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