Rep. Doug Collins
Former Representative for Georgia’s 9th District
pronounced dug // KAH-linz
Collins was the representative for Georgia’s 9th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 2013 to 2020.
![Photo of Rep. Doug Collins [R-GA9, 2013-2020]](/static/legislator-photos/412531-200px.jpeg)
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 by themselves rather than by voters. Their attempts to suppress state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and by using lies and fraudulent documents was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup.
Collins was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. Shortly after the election, Collins 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.)
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. In 2023, Trump advisors and associates pleaded guilty to or were convicted of submitting fraudulent slates of electors to Congress (which Trump was briefed on), abetting lies, assaulting police officers at the Capitol, tampering with voting machines after the election, and contempt of Congress for withholding documents during its investigation, and Trump faces criminal charges for soliciting the Vice President to subvert Congress’s certification of the election, his role in the fraudulent slates of electors, and the insurrection at the Capitol.
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2020 Report Card for Collins.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Collins is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2020 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 Collins sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 6, 2015 to Dec 28, 2020. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Collins was the primary sponsor of 14 bills that were enacted. The most recent include:
- H.R. 1952 (116th): Intercountry Adoption Information Act of 2019
- H.R. 1219 (116th): Restraining Excessive Seizure of Property through the Exploitation of Civil Asset Forfeiture Tools Act
- H.R. 5682 (115th): FIRST STEP Act
- H.R. 3821 (115th): To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 430 Main Street in Clermont, Georgia, as the “Zack T. Addington Post Office”.
- H.R. 4943 (115th): CLOUD Act
- H.R. 4706 (115th): Music Modernization Act of 2017
- H.R. 3356 (115th): Prison Reform and Redemption Act
Does 14 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
Collins sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (19%) Crime and Law Enforcement (17%) Taxation (14%) Law (14%) International Affairs (11%) Health (11%) Commerce (8%) Immigration (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Collins recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.Res. 1194 (116th): Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Nancy Pelosi should …
- H.J.Res. 96 (116th): Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States to ensure …
- H.R. 6863 (116th): COVID-19 Accountability Act
- H.R. 5082 (116th): Gigabit Opportunity Act
- H.Res. 634 (116th): Providing for the consideration of the bill (S. 820) to strengthen programs …
- H.R. 4009 (116th): Anti-Semitism Awareness Act of 2019
- H.R. 3442 (116th): Defending Elections against Trolls from Enemy Regimes Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2013 to Dec 2020, Collins missed 214 of 4,693 roll call votes, which is 4.6%. This is worse than the median of 2.3% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2020. 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
