Loudermilk is the representative for Georgia’s 11th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 6, 2015. Loudermilk is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 59 years old.
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.
Loudermilk was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. Shortly after the election, Loudermilk 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, based on lies and a preposterous legal argument 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 5, Loudermilk — perhaps unwittingly — led a tour of the Capitol in which a participant of the next day’s insurrection took pictures of hallways and staircases. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Loudermilk 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 have generally changed their story after their vote, claiming it was merely a protest and not intended to change the outcome of the election as they clearly sought prior to the vote. 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.
![Photo of Rep. Barry Loudermilk [R-GA11]](/static/legislator-photos/412624-200px.jpeg)
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Loudermilk.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Loudermilk 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 Loudermilk has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Mar 23, 2023. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Barry Loudermilk sits on the following committees:
Enacted Legislation
Loudermilk was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 1060 (116th): BUILD Act
- H.R. 187 (116th): Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park Boundary Adjustment Act
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 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Loudermilk sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
Finance and Financial Sector (50%) Government Operations and Politics (21%) Housing and Community Development (12%) Arts, Culture, Religion (8%) Economics and Public Finance (8%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Loudermilk recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 802: Respect State Housing Laws Act
- H.R. 9409 (117th): MERIT Act of 2022
- H.R. 9062 (117th): Respect State Housing Laws Act
- H.R. 8617 (117th): Exchange Regulatory Improvement Act of 2022
- H.Res. 769 (117th): Congratulating the Atlanta Braves for winning the 2021 Major League Baseball World …
- H.R. 3609 (117th): Trust in Public Service Act
- H.R. 3412 (117th): Alleviating Stress Test Burdens To Help Investors Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2015 to Mar 2023, Loudermilk missed 303 of 4,649 roll call votes, which is 6.5%. This is much worse than the median of 1.5% 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.
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
