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Rick Allen's Issue Positions (Political Courage Test)

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On The Ballot: Running, Republican for U.S. House (GA) - District 12

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  • Rated 0% by Planned Parenthood Action Fund (None)
  • "I applaud the Supreme Court's decision. In the decades since Roe v. Wade, more than 62 million innocent lives have been lost to abortion. This ruling comes amidst an unprecedented campaign of intimidation targeting the Justices of the Court, who have shown tremendous resolve in the face of violent threats. I remain committed to upholding the sanctity of life during my tenure in Congress." (None)
  • "In the decades since Roe v Wade, more than 62 million innocent lives have been lost to abortion. I remain committed to upholding the sanctity of life during my tenure in Congress." (x.com)
  • "This week marks the 49th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Roe v. Wade, a devastating decision that has led to over 60 million babies killed. As a father and grandfather, I will always fight to protect the right to life!" (x.com)
  • "I am relieved that Social Security recipients will see their benefits increased; however, as these cost of living adjustments are tied to inflation, we need to stop the wasteful spending that's making these increases necessary!" (x.com)
  • "Many seniors are on fixed budgets and depend on Medicare and Social Security, so I’ve fought to reduce out of pocket expenses for seniors. Let me be clear: I’m fighting to protect Medicare and Social Security for our seniors. Funding Social Security and Medicare. Protecting Medicare Advantage programs. Preserving these programs for future generations. Reducing cost of seniors’ health care and prescriptions." (rickwallen.com)
  • "Georgia seniors have paid into Medicare and Social Security their entire lives. Congress has a duty to protect these programs that you have earned—not only for those who currently use the programs, but for near retirees and future generations. In Congress, I’m making sure we keep this promise to our seniors as well as future generations." (rickwallen.com)
  • "Cut taxes" (x.com)
  • "Inflation is still at a 40-year high. Americans understand the best way to reverse course is to rein in the out-of-control government spending driving this crisis. Instead, House Democrats are now doubling down on a bill to raise taxes during a recession." (x.com)
  • Rated 93% by National Tax Limitation Committee (None)
  • Voted in favor of HR 1: "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" (votesmart.org)
  • "Democrats’ trillion dollar tax & spend bill is not about addressing America’s urgent needs - it’s their blueprint to fundamentally reshape our nation and implement their radical social agenda" (x.com)
  • "Inflation is still at a 40-year high. Americans understand the best way to reverse course is to rein in the out-of-control government spending driving this crisis. Instead, House Democrats are now doubling down on a bill to raise taxes during a recession." (x.com)
  • Rated 93% by National Tax Limitation Committee (None)
  • Voted in favor of HR 1: "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" (votesmart.org)
  • Rated 0% by End Citizens United (None)
  • Rated 6% by Common Cause (None)
  • Voted against HR 1: "For the People Act of 2021" (votesmart.org)
  • "Without any bipartisan input, House Democrats have crafted a bill that has no chance of becoming law. Their proposal contains partisan poison pills like eliminating qualified immunity, which protects our law-abiding officers. It also goes too far in federalizing law enforcement, which is best handled at the state and local level." (votesmart.org)
  • Voted in favor of H Con Res 40 "Expressing support for local law enforcement officers and condemning efforts to defund or dismantle local law enfo ..." (None)
  • Voted in favor of H J Res 42 "Disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the Comprehensive Policing and Justice Re ..." (None)
  • "THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN OF LAW ENFORCEMENT UNDERSTAND AND EMBRACE THE AUTHORITY TO WHICH THEY HAVE BEEN CALLED – AND THEY SWEAR AN OATH TO EXECUTE IT FAITHFULLY. TO THE UPSTANDING MEMBERS OF LAW ENFORCEMENT, WE SALUTE YOU, AND AS REPUBLICANS WE WILL ALWAYS BACK THE BLUE. BY CONTRAST, THE DEMOCRATS ARE SOFT-ON-CRIME, THEY HAVE SCREAMED "DEFUND THE POLICE" RHETORIC THAT’S LED TO A DRAMATIC RISE IN VIOLENT CRIME, INCLUDING RECORD-BREAKING HOMICIDES IN MAJOR CITIES NATIONWIDE. AND AS WE MARK THIS OCCASION, WE PAUSE TO HONOR THOSE POLICE OFFERS WHO HAVE BEEN KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY. AGAIN, THE SCRIPTURES SAY THE GREATEST LOVE IS TO OFFER ONE’S LIFE UP FOR OTHERS. OUR POLICE OFFICERS PUT THEIR LIVES ON THE LINE EVERY DAY TO KEEP US SAFE. THEY DON’T DO IT FOR RECOGNITION. BUT THEY DESERVE OUR RECOGNITION AND OUR FULL SUPPORT." (allen.house.gov)
  • Voted in favor of HR 2670 "National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024" (None)
  • Voted in favor of HR 4365 "Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2024" (None)
  • "President Biden’s proposed defense spending failed to adequately meet the needs of our national defense, especially with record high inflation. Thankfully, the House worked in a bipartisan manner to reverse course and invest critical funding to strengthen our military." (allen.house.gov)
  • "With geopolitical tensions rising across the globe, this year’s NDAA represents a strategic investment into the stabilizing might and power of the United States military. I was proud to support this bipartisan bill, which gives our troops a well-earned pay raise and bolsters our national security by providing servicemembers with the resources necessary to continue protecting our country." (allen.house.gov)
  • "I recently sent a bipartisan, bicameral letter to the FCC urging them to utilize data from the Georgia Broadband Map program in their new mapping program and insisting that regular updates be provided to Congress. House Agriculture Republicans have also marked up the Broadband for Rural America Act, which will provide targeted assistance to the least- connected residents." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • "Not only are we burdening our children, and children's children, with the highest sustained federal spending levels in American history, but in the near term this spending spree will kill American jobs and worsen the ongoing economic crisis." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • Voted against HR 3684 "Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act." (votesmart.org)
  • "A housing issue of this magnitude will have no easy answers, but the Bon Air residents have waited far too long for owners and management to step up and address these critical issues," he wrote. "It is beyond time for all partners involved in providing safe and affordable housing at this location to take action." (allen.house.gov)
  • Voted against HR 7301 "Emergency Housing Protections and Relief Act of 2020" (None)
  • Voted against HR 8294 "Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2023" (None)
  • "The residents were complaining to me as I was standing there. I asked the management company have you had a meeting with the residents to talk about these concerns and they said no. I mean, I think that's irresponsible...People just don’t need to be treated like this. It just really bothers me when these people say well I’m meeting the minimum standards. Well, that just…I don’t know. That doesn’t sit well with me. Something is going to happen at the Bon Air if they don’t adequately secure that building and get security people up there because the residents are hearing gun shots." (allen.house.gov)
  • "Inflation is caused by a rapid increase in the money supply, the kind of increase that only follows a drastic rise in government spending. Since Inauguration Day, Biden and the Democrats have passed nearly $4 trillion in new spending. For reference, that is almost all the money we brought in last year, and we had record revenues. It is all out the door before we even fund the government. But that is not all. Through his executive orders, Biden has singlehandedly spent another $1.5 trillion. This reckless spending has set off an economic crisis the likes of which we have never seen. The average American family will spend an extra $8,000 this year just to keep pace with rising prices. For most Georgians, that is almost 2 months' pay." (justfacts.votesmart.org)
  • "The so-called "Inflation Reduction Act' is another bloated Democrat spending bill that will raise taxes at the worst possible time -- during a recession! Rather than address the economic crisis they created, President Biden and congressional Democrats are focused on pushing socialist Green New Deal initiatives and expanding the size and scope of the IRS to snoop on Americans' bank accounts. In this time of recession and record-high inflation, Congress needs to work towards balancing our budget, bolstering our workforce and growing our economy, not doubling down on failed policies." (None)
  • Voted against HR 5376 "Inflation Reduction Act of 2022" (None)
  • Voted in favor of HR 347 "Reduce Exacerbated Inflation Negatively Impacting the Nation Act" (None)
  • "Our nation is $31 trillion in debt, we’re staring down a debt ceiling deadline due to the President’s inaction, and yet this administration is dead set on enacting costly programs like a massive student loan bailout that will increase the financial burden on those who did not take out a loan themselves. Hardworking taxpayers will be stuck with a tab of over 300 billion dollars – and $1.44 billion in the 12th district alone, my district." (allen.house.gov)
  • "To my colleagues on the other side of the aisle: student loan cancellation doesn’t make the debt go away, it shifts the costs from student loan borrowers who made a financial commitment and transfers it to the U.S. taxpayers. Forcing hardworking taxpayers to foot the bill for student loans they didn’t borrow is simply unconstitutional. Period. Democrats would also have you believe that canceling student loan debt would reduce the cost of college tuition. We can all agree that addressing ballooning college costs is paramount, but studies show increasing subsidies to colleges and universities causes the cost of college to increase. This overreaching plan is going to make the financial burden of pursuing a college degree even more severe. Overall, this student loan transfer scheme is unfair to hardworking Americans and unfair to future students. I urge a yes vote on this resolution to overturn the Biden administration’s radical student loan bailout." (allen.house.gov)
  • "It is unconscionable that Attorney General Garland is willing to weaponize the DOJ and ignore the will of states, Congress and the American people who overwhelmingly support voter ID." (x.com)
  • "When it comes to our democracy, after Democrats jammed their No. 1 legislative priority, H.R. 1, the For the People Act, through the House, the people vocally opposed this radical legislation that would federalize our elections and ban voter ID. In fact, voters overwhelmingly want to restore commonsense measures in the election process, with new polls showing that 80% support requiring voters to show photo identification in order to cast a ballot. Thankfully, my Republican colleagues in the Senate heard your call and blocked this bill from moving forward." (allen.house.gov)
  • Rated 6% by Common Cause (None)
  • "Georgia-12 is leading our nation’s nuclear future. Last night, the House passed the bipartisan Atomic Energy Advancement Act, which includes legislation I sponsored to improve the licensing review process for future nuclear projects. By modernizing the inefficient procedures that hamper our nuclear energy expansion, we can fully embrace the reliability of clean, 24/7 nuclear energy." (twitter.com)
  • "When we talk about clean energy in this country, we don't need out- of-touch, costly socialist policies like the Green New Deal that would devastate the best economy in the world. We are talking about unleashing private-sector innovation, like nuclear power." (None)
  • Voted in favor of H Con Res 86 "Expressing the sense of Congress that a carbon tax would be detrimental to the United States economy" (None)
  • Voted in favor of H Res 987 "Denouncing the harmful, anti-American energy policies of the Biden administration, and for other purposes." (None)
  • "Newsflash, @POTUS: You don't need to go around begging other countries to produce more oil. We should be doing it here in the United States, where we produce energy more cleanly and efficiently than anyplace else!" (x.com)
  • "President Biden has leased fewer acres of federal land for domestic oil & gas production than any president since WWII. His administration is currently sitting on OVER 4,400 applications for permits to drill. Now he's asking Congress to "speed up" the process. Total hypocrisy." (x.com)
  • "With OPEC announcing plans to cut oil production, President Biden must immediately end his war on American energy and restart domestic production. The United States is blessed with an abundance of energy resources. It's time we start acting like it." (x.com)
  • "Yesterday, my colleagues and I (led by @SteveScalise) sent a letter to @POTUS, urging him to reverse his anti-American energy policies and issue a new five-year plan for offshore oil and natural gas leasing after his Interior Secretary let the previous plan expire." (x.com)
  • Voted against HR 1808 "Assault Weapons Ban of 2022" (None)
  • Voted against S 2938 "Bipartisan Safer Communities Act" (None)
  • "Federal firearm laws are already very strong in ensuring prohibited persons do not purchase firearms, but criminals don’t abide by the law. Studies show mass background checks won’t do anything to address gun violence or keep criminals from obtaining an illegal firearm, and these bills will only make it harder for Americans to protect themselves. Specifically they will criminalize the transfer of firearms between two private citizens and add red-tape to the process in which law-abiding citizens purchase a firearm. As a proud supporter of the Second Amendment, I will continue to protect the right to bear arms." (allen.house.gov)
  • "This legislation is blatantly unconstitutional. It is an attack on our Second Amendment that seeks to outlaw the most common firearms used for self-defense, target shooting, and hunting by millions of law-abiding Americans. House Democrats know as well as anyone that this legislation will do nothing to curb gun violence. When Congress last attempted to ban so-called ‘assault weapons’ in 1994, it had virtually no effect on violent crime rates. Instead, Democrats are shamelessly exploiting recent tragedies to advance their radical, gun-grabbing agenda." (allen.house.gov)
  • "Democrats’ Medicare-for-All proposal is a radical socialist policy that would end Medicare as we know it." (x.com)
  • "Medicare-for-All would create a single-payer system run by the federal government for everyone. President Trump's Executive Order will ensure our seniors have choices and access to quality, affordable care." (x.com)
  • Voted in favor of HR 6201: "Families First Coronavirus Response Act" (votesmart.org)
  • "During my time in Congress, I have long advocated for restoring patient-centered, cost-effective, and market-driven solutions to our nation’s health care system to drive down costs. For too long, families have faced the financial burden of unexpected medical bills, overly expensive prescription drugs, limited health care choices, and hidden fees. In nearly every other industry, consumers know the price of a product before purchasing it. Health care should be no different. H.R. 5378 delivers this much-needed transparency and ensures Americans have access to timely, quality, and affordable health care that suits them best. As a businessman, ensuring my employees had access to affordable health care was always a priority of mine. By lowering costs and empowering patients and employers to make informed decisions, more Americans will have confidence in their coverage, leading to a healthier future." (allen.house.gov)
  • Voted against HR 3: "Lower Drug Costs Now Act of 2019" (votesmart.org)
  • Voted against HR 6833: "The Affordable Insulin Now Act" (votesmart.org)
  • "Unfortunately, many Americans are facing skyrocketing health care costs because of dramatic increases in out-of-pocket costs of prescription drugs. In 2018, patients paid a collective $61 billion in out-of-pocket drug costs. Fortunately, Republicans are stepping up with solutions that work best for the people, without the heavy hand of government interference. H.R. 19, the Lower Cost, More Cures Act, introduced last month by Republican committee leaders, is the exact opposite of H.R. 3, Pelosi’s big-government power grab. The Lower Cost, More Cures Act will utilize the power of the free market to modernize our health care system, increase choice and transparency, and lower costs. These are goals that both sides of the aisle should be able to rally behind. All the provisions in H.R. 19 are bipartisan, workable, and ready to become law. We have the power to save lives and ease the minds of Americans struggling to pay for needed medications." (edworkforce.house.gov)
  • "This administration's open-border policies have left us with an undeniable crisis at our southern border. By reversing the effective policies established by the Trump administration, President Biden has severely limited federal law enforcement's ability to secure our border and protect American citizens. Ending the Remain in Mexico policy will only worsen the historic surge of illegal immigration we are seeing now. Should the administration proceed with its efforts to end this policy and eliminate Title 42, it would be a slap in the face to the men and women of law enforcement who are working every day to keep our country safe. I implore the president to reverse course and take action to secure the border." (None)
  • @POTUS has taken 60+ actions that have undermined our nation's border security, including: Ending Remain in Mexico, Reinstating catch-and-release, Suspending asylum cooperative agreements, Halting border wall construction, The #BidenBorderCrisis is self-inflicted." (twitter.com)
  • Voted in favor of H Res 1065 "Denouncing the Biden administration's immigration policies." (None)
  • Voted in favor of HR 5525 "Continuing Appropriations and Border Security Enhancement Act, 2024" (None)
  • "Biden's actions have resulted in a humanitarian crisis at our southern border. Instead of addressing the #BidenBorderCrisis, Democrats plan to consider two amnesty bills this week in Congress. We must SECURE OUR BORDER." (x.com)
  • "Democrats continue to ignore the #BidenBorderCrisis and are bringing two bills to the House floor today that would grant mass amnesty. This sends the wrong message & will only incentivize more illegal immigration. We must SECURE OUR BORDER!" (x.com)
  • "We must immediately secure the border, enforce the laws we currently have on the books, and block any solution that includes amnesty for illegals." www.rickwallen.com
  • "We write to you today to express our deep concern over your recent announcement to terminate the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP), also known as the "Remain in Mexico Policy." MPP was issued in 2018 to provide an orderly process for asylum cases and curb the flow of illegal immigrants being released into the United States. Section 235 of the Immigration and Nationality Act gives your Department the authority to implement procedures for the inspection of those seeking asylum, specifically detailing that the Secretary "may return the alien to that territory pending a [removal] proceeding under § 240" of the Act. Full implementation of MPP provides asylum-seekers the opportunity to be properly vetted while no longer blindly releasing an individual into the country, with no accountability to ensure they return for their immigration court hearing. Additionally, policies like MPP were successful at reducing the number of illegal crossings during the Trump Administration." (None)
  • Voted in favor of HR 6968 "Suspending Energy Imports from Russia Act" (votesmart.org)
  • "The recent rocket attacks launched by Hamas terrorists against innocent Israelis must be unequivocally condemned, and our support for Israel’s right to defend herself must be crystal clear. There is only one democracy in the Middle East, and we must stand with Israel." (www.facebook.com)
  • Voted in favor of HR 7108: "Suspending Normal Trade Relations with Russia and Belarus Act" (votesmart.org)
  • Voted in favor of HR 7217 "Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024" (None)
  • "Powerful speech from President Zelensky. We must continue to support Ukraine as they defend themselves against Russia’s unjustified attacks!" (x.com)
  • Voted against HR 5692 "Ukraine Security Assistance and Oversight Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024" (None)
  • Voted against HR 6833: "Continuing Appropriations and Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023" (votesmart.org)
  • Voted in favor of HR 7691: "Making emergency supplemental appropriations for assistance for the situation in Ukraine for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2022, and for other purposes." (votesmart.org)
  • "CCP-backed TikTok poses a unique and serious national security threat. I look forward to joining my @HouseCommerce colleagues tomorrow to advance bipartisan legislation that will protect Americans from the Chinese Communist Party's malign influence." (x.com)
  • "The spread of antisemitic content on TikTok following Hamas' brutal terrorist attacks on Israel is UNACCEPTABLE. Today, I joined a letter demanding TikTok's CEO take action to combat the surge in disinformation related to the Israel-Hamas conflict on the CCP-backed platform." (x.com)
  • Voted in favor of HR 7521: "Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act" (votesmart.org)

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