skip to main content
(About Ads | Hide These Ads)

 
Rep. Barry Loudermilk

Representative for Georgia’s 11th District

pronounced BA-ree // LOW-der-milk

(About Ads | Hide These Ads)

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 2022 and serves until Jan 3, 2023.

Loudermilk is among the Republican legislators who, by calling for entire states to be disenfranchised in the 2020 presidential election, fomented the terrorist attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 that aimed to prevent the determination of the next president of the United States. Shortly after the 2020 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 discounted, claiming that some voters there followed procedures set by the wrong state officials. The case amplified lies and conspiracy theories that fueled the movement that led to the attack on the Capitol. The Supreme Court rejected the case. Following the rejection of several cases before the Supreme Court, one legislator called for violence. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the attack on the Capitol, Loudermilk voted for the exclusion of Arizona and/or Pennsylvania — states narrowly won by Democrats — from the count of Electoral College votes that determined the next President of the United States.
Photo of Rep. Barry Loudermilk [R-GA11]

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2020 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, 2017 to Mar 3, 2021. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

The Club for Growth: 85% United States Chamber of Commerce: 75% The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws: B League of Conservation Voters: 1% Human Rights Campaign: 0% Planned Parenthood Action Fund: 0%

Enacted Legislation

Loudermilk was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:

View All »

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 (44%) Government Operations and Politics (16%) Economics and Public Finance (16%) Science, Technology, Communications (8%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (8%) Arts, Culture, Religion (8%)

Recent Bills

Some of Loudermilk’s most recently sponsored bills include...

View All » | View Cosponsors »

Voting Record

Key Votes

Loudermilk voted Not Voting

Passed 327/85 on Dec 21, 2020.
This bill became the vehicle for passage of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, a major government funding bill, which also included economic stimulus provisions due ...

Loudermilk voted Yea

Loudermilk voted Nay

Passed 403/16 on Oct 29, 2019.

Loudermilk voted Nay

Loudermilk voted Nay

Passed 396/14 on Jun 22, 2018.
H.R. 6 includes Medicaid, Medicare, and public health reforms to combat the opioid crisis by advancing treatment and recovery initiatives, improving prevention, protecting communities, and ...

Loudermilk voted Nay

Passed 229/177 on May 19, 2017.
H.R. 1039 amends the federal criminal code to authorize a probation officer to arrest a person, without warrant, if there is probable cause to believe ...

Loudermilk voted No

Loudermilk voted Aye

Passed 218/208 on Jun 18, 2015.
This vote made H.R. 2146 the vehicle for passage of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal currently being negotiated. H.R. ...

Loudermilk voted Yea

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 ...

Missed Votes

From Jan 2015 to Mar 2021, Loudermilk missed 253 of 3,551 roll call votes, which is 7.1%. This is much worse than the median of 2.0% 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 and major life events.

Show the numbers...

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including: