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U.S. Representative · Georgia 12th District
Rick W. Allen
RepublicanDistrict R+7119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score34#248 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Rick W. Allen’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office462 Cannon House Office Building Washington DC 20515-1012
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s district, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Democrats · 1 signal
- WeakBacks 1 Democratic-led tracked billSponsor or active cosponsor of 1 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 2449.
Keeps them with Republicans · 1 signal
- MediumVotes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.689 (party median +0.530; rank 186 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 87 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
Bill-specific inputsVotes on similar past bills and committee seats vary by bill, so they appear in the swing-v3 scores below rather than here.
Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 11.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Education and WorkforceMajority · 7th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and PensionsChairman
- House Committee on Energy and CommerceMajority · 12th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
- Subcommittee on Energy
- Subcommittee on Communications and TechnologyVice Chair
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Allen← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.689 is 0.16 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress87House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 51–100 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 2406National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Sexual Harassment and Assault Prevention Improvements Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 43
| Middle |
| H.R. 2768Benton MacKaye National Scenic Trail Feasibility Study Act of 2026 |