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Rep. Andrew Clyde

Representative for Georgia’s 9th District

pronounced AN-droo // klīd

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Clyde is the representative for Georgia’s 9th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2021. Clyde is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 59 years old.

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 senior government advisors, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided instead by incumbent politicians running in the very same election. Their attempts to suppress entire state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and using a disinformation campaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.

Clyde was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Clyde voted to reject the state-certified election results of Arizona and/or Pennsylvania (states narrowly won by Democrats), which could have changed the outcome of the election. These legislators pumped the lies and preposterous legal arguments about the election that motivated the January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol. 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.

Misconduct

Since 2021, Rep. Clyde was fined many times for failing to wear a mask on the House floor during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Rep. appealed his fines several times, but all have been denied. With a $500 fine for the first time and a $2,500 fine for each subsequent time, it is believed that, as of June 2022, Clyde has been fined at least $103,000, taken out of his congressional salary.

Sep. 21, 2021 House Sergeant at Arms fined Clyde for failing to wear a mask on the House floor during the COVID-19 pandemic
Sep. 28, 2021 House Sergeant at Arms fined Clyde three additional times for failing to wear a mask on the House floor during the COVID-19 pandemic on Sept. 22, 27, and 28, 2021
Oct. 1, 2021 House Sergeant at Arms fined Clyde three additional times on Sept. 29, 30, and Oct. 1, 2021
Oct. 28, 2021 House Sergeant at Arms fined Clyde six additional times on Oct. 14, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28
Nov. 30, 2021 House Sergeant at Arms fined Clyde five additional times on Nov. 4, 8, 9, 18, 30
Nov. 30, 2021 House Committee on Ethics denied Clyde's appeal of the fines for 11/4, 11/8, 11/9, 11/18, 11/30
Dec. 3, 2021 House Sergeant at Arms fined Clyde three additional times
Dec. 9, 2021 House Sergeant at Arms fined Clyde an additional time
Dec. 14, 2021 House Sergeant at Arms fined Clyde
Dec. 16, 2021 House Sergeant at Arms fined Clyde two additional times
Jan. 13, 2022 House Committee on Ethics denied Clyde's appeal of the fines for 12/14 and 12/16
Feb. 15, 2022 House Sergeant at Arms fined Clyde seven additional times
May. 31, 2022 House Committee on Ethics denied Clyde's appeal
Jun. 24, 2022 House Sergeant at Arms fined Clyde three additional times
Jun. 24, 2022 House Committee on Ethics denied Clyde's appeal
Photo of Rep. Andrew Clyde [R-GA9]

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2022 Report Card for Clyde.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Clyde 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 Clyde has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Mar 28, 2023. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Andrew Clyde sits on the following committees:

Enacted Legislation

Clyde was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

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Does 1 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

Clyde sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Government Operations and Politics (35%) Crime and Law Enforcement (20%) Taxation (15%) Health (10%) Armed Forces and National Security (10%) International Affairs (10%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Clyde recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Clyde voted Nay

Passed 360/64 on Sep 22, 2022.

Clyde voted Nay

Clyde voted Nay

Clyde voted Nay

Passed 422/3 on Feb 28, 2022.

Clyde voted Nay

Clyde voted Nay

Passed 364/60 on Dec 8, 2021.

Clyde voted Nay

Clyde voted Nay

Missed Votes

From Jan 2021 to Mar 2023, Clyde missed 23 of 1,171 roll call votes, which is 2.0%. This is on par with the median of 1.6% 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.

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Primary Sources

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