Loudermilk is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below.Įach dot is a member of the House of Representatives Read our 2022 Report Card for Loudermilk. Background: Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House Analysis Legislative Metrics The fiscal year begins on October 1 of the prior calendar year. We don’t have earmark requests for senators. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district.Īll earmark requests in the House of Representatives are published online for the public to review. Across representatives who requested earmarks, the median total amount requested for this fiscal year was $39 million.Įarmarks are federal expenditures, tax benefits, or tariff benefits requested by a legislator for a specific entity. Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. These are earmark requests which may or may not survive the legislative process to becoming law. Led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups,Īttempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors. The Januviolent insurrection at the Capitol, 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.
On Januin 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. 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. (Following the rejection of several related cases before the Supreme Court, another legislator who joined the case called for violence.) 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. To suppress entire state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and using a disinformationĬampaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup. Presidential election decided instead by incumbent politicians running in the very same election. President Trump, his senior government advisors, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes.
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