# Rick Allen (GA-12) — Legislator Fact Sheet · The GA Files > How Rick Allen voted on the most consequential federal legislation, with campaign-finance data from FEC filings. *Source: https://thegafiles.com/RickAllen.html · The GA Files (thegafiles.com)* --- Legislator Fact Sheet · Georgia's 12th Congressional District # Rick Allen Party Republican In Office 2015 – present Seat GA-12 Key Votes Recorded 12 of 12 HRC Equality Score0 / 100 Rick Allen, founder of an Augusta construction company, has represented Georgia's 12th District — Augusta and east Georgia — since 2015. 12 / 12Rick has a recorded position on all twelve scorecard votes below. **HRC Equality Score: 0/100 (118th Congress).** An external rating from the [Human Rights Campaign](https://www.hrc.org/resources/congressional-scorecard), an LGBTQ+ advocacy organization, scoring members 0–100 on support for LGBTQ+ equality based on key votes and bill cosponsorships in the 118th Congress (2023–24). Included for reference; it reflects HRC's positions, not this site's. **Methodology.** Every vote below is the member's actual recorded position, pulled directly from the official House Clerk roll-call XML and cross-checked against the published vote totals. Summaries are factual; framing is left to the reader. 01 ## One Big Beautiful Bill Act H.R. 1 · 119th Congress YES Date House passage July 3, 2025 (218–214) Status Became law — Public Law 119-21, signed July 4, 2025 Rick Allen's Vote Voted **YES** — with nearly all Republicans. ### Impact on Everyday Americans The largest safety-net rollback in recent memory — over $1 trillion cut from health programs and at least $120 billion from SNAP, with new Medicaid work requirements and higher ACA premiums. Supporters cast it as tax relief and spending restraint; opponents warned it would strain rural hospitals and nursing homes and raise costs for lower-income families. #### Sources - [Congress.gov — bill text, summary & status](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/1) - [Official House roll-call record](https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025190) 02 ## Laken Riley Act S. 5 / H.R. 29 · 119th Congress YES Date House passage January 22, 2025 (263–156) Status Became law, signed January 29, 2025 Rick Allen's Vote Voted **YES** — with nearly all Republicans. ### Impact on Everyday Americans Requires DHS to detain undocumented people merely charged with or arrested for theft-related offenses — without a conviction — and lets states sue the federal government over immigration enforcement. Named for a Georgia nursing student killed in 2024, it drew bipartisan support, but immigrant-rights groups criticized the detention-without-conviction standard and due-process concerns. #### Sources - [Congress.gov — bill text, summary & status](https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/senate-bill/5) - [Official House roll-call record](https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202523) 03 ## Inflation Reduction Act H.R. 5376 · 117th Congress NO Date House passage August 12, 2022 (220–207) Status Became law, signed August 16, 2022 Rick Allen's Vote Voted **NO** — with nearly all Republicans. ### Impact on Everyday Americans Let Medicare negotiate prescription-drug prices, capped insulin at $35/month for Medicare enrollees, extended ACA premium subsidies, and funded clean-energy investment — direct savings for lower- and middle-income households and seniors, paid for partly with a corporate minimum tax. It passed on party lines. #### Sources - [Congress.gov — bill text, summary & status](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/5376) - [Official House roll-call record](https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022420) 04 ## Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act H.R. 3684 · 117th Congress NO Date House passage November 5, 2021 (228–206) Status Became law, signed November 15, 2021 Rick Allen's Vote Voted **NO** — with nearly all Republicans. ### Impact on Everyday Americans Funds roads, bridges, broadband, and water-system replacement, with Georgia set to receive billions for roads, ports, airports, water systems, and broadband access. One of the few major bipartisan infrastructure laws of the era. #### Sources - [Congress.gov — bill text, summary & status](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/3684) - [Official House roll-call record](https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021369) 05 ## American Rescue Plan Act H.R. 1319 · 117th Congress NO Date House passage March 10, 2021 (220–211) Status Became law, signed March 11, 2021 Rick Allen's Vote Voted **NO** — with nearly all Republicans. ### Impact on Everyday Americans A $1.9 trillion COVID-relief package: $1,400 stimulus checks, expanded unemployment benefits, and a one-year Child Tax Credit expansion credited with helping cut child poverty nearly in half in 2021. Supporters credited it with speeding the recovery; critics argued it fueled inflation. It passed on party lines. #### Sources - [Congress.gov — bill text, summary & status](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319) - [Official House roll-call record](https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202172) 06 ## Bipartisan Safer Communities Act S. 2938 · 117th Congress NO Date House passage June 24, 2022 (234–193) Status Became law, signed June 25, 2022 Rick Allen's Vote Voted **NO** — with nearly all Republicans. ### Impact on Everyday Americans The first major federal gun-safety law in nearly 30 years: enhanced background checks for buyers under 21, funding for state red-flag laws, closure of the “boyfriend loophole,” and new mental-health and school-safety money. Passed weeks after the Uvalde school shooting with bipartisan support. #### Sources - [Congress.gov — bill text, summary & status](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2938) - [Official House roll-call record](https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022299) 07 ## Respect for Marriage Act H.R. 8404 · 117th Congress NO Date House passage December 8, 2022 (258–169) Status Became law, signed December 13, 2022 Rick Allen's Vote Voted **NO** — with 169 of 208 Republicans. ### Impact on Everyday Americans Codified federal recognition of same-sex and interracial marriages, requiring states to honor marriages performed where they were legal. A response to concerns that the Supreme Court might revisit marriage rights; it passed with bipartisan support. #### Sources - [Congress.gov — bill text, summary & status](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/8404) - [Official House roll-call record](https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022513) 08 ## CHIPS & Science Act H.R. 4346 · 117th Congress NO Date House passage July 28, 2022 (243–187) Status Became law, signed August 9, 2022 Rick Allen's Vote Voted **NO** — with 187 of 211 Republicans. ### Impact on Everyday Americans Subsidized domestic semiconductor manufacturing and research to cut reliance on foreign chips and ease the supply-chain shocks that drove up prices on cars and electronics — including roughly $75 million directed to strengthen chip production in Georgia. Passed with bipartisan support. #### Sources - [Congress.gov — bill text, summary & status](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/4346) - [Official House roll-call record](https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022404) 09 ## Honoring our PACT Act S. 3373 · 117th Congress NO Date House passage July 13, 2022 (342–88) Status Became law, signed August 10, 2022 Rick Allen's Vote Voted **NO** — breaking with most Republicans. ### Impact on Everyday Americans Expanded VA health care and benefits for millions of veterans exposed to toxic burn pits and other hazards during their service — one of the largest expansions of veterans’ benefits in decades. Passed with broad bipartisan majorities. #### Sources - [Congress.gov — bill text, summary & status](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/3373) - [Official House roll-call record](https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022309) 10 ## Tax Cuts and Jobs Act H.R. 1 · 115th Congress YES Date House passage December 20, 2017 (224–201) Status Became law, signed December 22, 2017 Rick Allen's Vote Voted **YES** — with nearly all Republicans. ### Impact on Everyday Americans Cut the corporate tax rate permanently and individual rates temporarily, doubled the standard deduction, and capped the state-and-local-tax (SALT) deduction. The largest tax overhaul in a generation; supporters cited growth and simpler filing, while critics noted the largest benefits flowed to corporations and higher earners and that it added to the deficit. It passed on party lines. #### Sources - [Congress.gov — bill text, summary & status](https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1) - [Official House roll-call record](https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2017699) 11 ## American Health Care Act H.R. 1628 · 115th Congress YES Date House passage May 4, 2017 (217–213) Status Passed House; failed in the Senate — did not become law Rick Allen's Vote Voted **YES** — with nearly all Republicans. ### Impact on Everyday Americans The principal effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act — rolling back the Medicaid expansion, restructuring subsidies, and weakening protections tied to pre-existing conditions. The Congressional Budget Office estimated tens of millions would lose coverage. It passed the House but failed in the Senate. #### Sources - [Congress.gov — bill text, summary & status](https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1628) - [Official House roll-call record](https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2017256) 12 ## For the People Act H.R. 1 · 117th Congress NO Date House passage March 3, 2021 (220–210) Status Passed House; stalled in the Senate — did not become law Rick Allen's Vote Voted **NO** — with nearly all Republicans. ### Impact on Everyday Americans A sweeping elections-and-ethics overhaul — automatic and same-day voter registration, expanded mail and early voting, nonpartisan redistricting, new campaign-finance disclosure, and tighter conflict-of-interest rules. Supporters called it the most significant voting-rights expansion in decades; opponents called it federal overreach into state-run elections. It passed the House but stalled in the Senate. #### Sources - [Congress.gov — bill text, summary & status](https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1) - [Official House roll-call record](https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202162) Constituent Access ## Town Halls Open public forums with constituents · review period 2015–2026 **The finding is telephone-only access.** Allen holds “digital” telephone town halls rather than open in-person forums — and after constituents staged a sit-in at his Augusta office demanding a face-to-face town hall, he indicated the digital format would continue. ## Documented Record - **February 27, 2025 — sit-in at Allen's Augusta office.** Between 70 and 100 constituents packed the hallway outside Allen's office on Perimeter Parkway — most left standing — demanding he hold an in-person town hall. The action was organized by Indivisible CSRA, the League of Women Voters, the CSRA Good Trouble Coalition, and Georgia Shift Action. - **Telephone “digital town halls.”** Allen's practice is to hold telephone town halls where constituents type questions; weeks after the sit-in he indicated that format would continue rather than holding open in-person forums. No open in-person Allen town hall in the review period has been documented in local press. ## Allen's Response Allen defends his telephone “digital town halls” as the way he hears from constituents, and after the February sit-in he indicated that format would continue. Verified against WFXG and WRDW (February 2025). The finding reflects local media searches; constituents with records of an open in-person Allen town hall are encouraged to submit a correction via the contact link. ## Sources - [WFXG — organized sit-in at Allen's office pushing for in-person town halls](https://www.wfxg.com/news/organized-sit-in-at-congressman-rick-allens-office-pushing-in-person-town-hall-meetings/article_6d3b2310-f55b-11ef-a8df-5bc3535c8aba.html) - [WRDW — crowd of nearly 100 floods Rep. Allen's Augusta office (Feb 27, 2025)](https://www.wrdw.com/2025/02/27/crowd-nearly-100-floods-rep-allens-augusta-office-protest/) - [Rep. Rick Allen — telephone town hall (official)](https://allen.house.gov/news/email/show.aspx?ID=BMTOTUCOQ75JRHKFA4X2NA242A) Campaign Finance ## Campaign Finance 2025–26 cycle · Federal Election Commission Raised$857K Spent$753K Cash on Hand$1.3M Allen's PAC money mixes **Georgia corporates** (AFLAC, Cox) with agriculture — pecans, poultry — and pharmacy PACs. Pinned — AIPAC Money $16,397 this cycle Direct contributions from AIPAC's PAC plus donor money bundled ("earmarked") through AIPAC and forwarded to the campaign — totaled from [AIPAC's own FEC disbursement filings](https://www.fec.gov/data/disbursements/?committee_id=C00797670&recipient_name=C00504019), 2025–26 cycle. ## Top PAC & Committee Contributors | # | Contributor | Amount | | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | AFLAC PAC | $10,000 | | 2 | National Pecan Federation (Pecan PAC) | $10,000 | | 3 | Verizon PAC | $10,000 | | 4 | Cox Enterprises PAC | $10,000 | | 5 | National Chicken Council PAC | $10,000 | | 6 | Pfizer PAC | $8,000 | | 7 | Home Depot PAC | $7,500 | | 8 | Investment Company Institute PAC | $7,500 | | 9 | BrettPAC | $7,500 | | 10 | National Community Pharmacists Assn PAC | $7,500 | Source: Federal Election Commission, 2025–26 cycle. Direct PAC contributions and committee transfers only — individual donors, earmarked conduit pass-throughs, refunds, and loans are excluded. Figures auto-pulled from FEC filings. ## Sources - [FEC — candidate profile & filings](https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H2GA12121/) ## Verification Resources - [House Clerk roll-call votes](https://clerk.house.gov/Votes) - [Rick Allen — Congressional Biographical Directory](https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/A000372) - [FEC — campaign finance filings](https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H2GA12121/) Vote positions are taken from official roll-call records, not secondhand summaries. Campaign-finance figures are drawn directly from the candidate's FEC filings for the 2025–26 cycle. [← All Legislators](https://thegafiles.com/legislators.html)