Friends, 

I hope you are doing well. As your Representative in Congress, it’s a priority to keep you informed of how we're serving you. If you would like to stay up to date, check out our website, and follow our Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram pages.

Looking forward to seeing you in Georgia's 11th Congressional District or in Washington, D.C. soon.  

God Bless,

Rep. Barry Loudermilk

U.S. Congressman, Georgia's Eleventh District

This week, I led a letter, signed by the entire George Republican Congressional Delegation, to newly confirmed Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Doug Collins expressing deep concern with the VA's failures in Georgia during the Biden Administration. We also requested that Secretary Collins visit our Georgia VA facilities as soon as possible to see the scale of work needed to reform the department.

Our nation's brave veterans deserve the highest quality of care; and the barriers that hinder them from receiving it throughout the state are simply unacceptable.

Click here to read the full letter and our press release here. 

Hidden in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act is a temporary provision that requires landlords to provide tenants with thirty days notice before a landlord can begin an eviction proceeding. This federal regulation was supposed to be a one-time grace period when the eviction moratorium ended; but a drafting error caused the 30-day notice requirement to remain in place permanently. This overrides state eviction notice laws, which are on average, eight days.

This federal overreach in the eviction process has caused immeasurable suffering for veterans, retirees, and families who depend on rental income to make ends meet. That is why my bill, H.R. 1078, the Respect State Housing Laws Act is a critical step in easing that burden by simply removing the federal government from the equation, and returning housing polices back to the states where they should be – and were for decades before the pandemic. It's time we let this unnecessary provision expire.

You can read the full bill text of the Respect State Housing Laws Act here, our press release here, and an article in The Washington Times here.

This week, I joined Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), Chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (OH-04) in sending letters to AT&T Inc., T-Mobile USA, Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) seeking answers about the FBI's use of cellular data in the investigation into the pipe bombs that were discovered on January 6, 2021 at the Democratic and Republican National Committee headquarters in Washington D.C.

According to a former FBI official who led the pipe bomb investigation, some of the cellular data that the FBI relied on during their probe was "corrupted," potentially frustrating law enforcement efforts to locate the individual(s) responsible for planting the pipe bombs. However, according to our January 2, 2025 Oversight Subcommittee Pipe Bomb Report, the major cellular carriers stated that they neither provided "corrupted" data to the FBI nor received any notification from the FBI of any issues accessing the data.

These bicameral letters request the cellular carriers and the FBI to provide the actual data that was analyzed for us to review and all communications between the FBI and the cellular carriers regarding the FBI's request and analysis of the data.

To learn more about our oversight letters, click here to read the exclusive article in the New York Post. To read the letters themselves, click below: 

Letter to the FBI 

Letter to AT&T

Letter to T-Mobile 

Letter to Verizon

This week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (OH-4) and I sent letters to investigators and employees from Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis demanding documents and transcribed interviews as we continue our investigation into the coordination between the Fulton County District Attorney's Office and the former January 6 Select Committee in their political prosecution of President Trump. According to court testimony, these individuals met with the January 6 Select Committee to coordinate their politicized investigations.

To learn more about our letters, click here to read the exclusive article in Fox 5 Atlanta. To read the letters themselves, click below:

Letter to Michael Hill

Letter to Trina Swanson-Lucas 

Letter to Donald Wakeford

Letter to Will Wooten

This week, my legislation, H.R. 687, the Modern Employment Reform, Improvement, and Transformation Act (MERIT) Act, received a strong endorsement from Americans for Tax Reform, an influential tax policy organization in a support letter.

"Americans for Tax Reform strongly supports the MERIT Act because U.S. taxpayers should only pay for competent, law-abiding federal employees. The MERIT Act improves efficiency of the federal workforce and ensures taxpayer dollars are spent wisely," said Grover Norquist, President of Americans for Tax Reform.

Thank you Grover Norquist and Americans for Tax Reform for supporting my MERIT Act legislation. We must reform the inefficient federal employment system, and create a competent government that works for the benefit of the American people.

Click here or below to read the full support letter. To learn more about the MERIT Act, read our press release here and the exclusive article in Fox News Digital from last month here.

During this week's House session I voted for legislation to make our communities safe by protecting Americans from the dangers of Fentanyl, and restore America's energy dominance and ultimately lower energy costs for Americans. The top bills are as follows:

1. H.R. 27 – HALT Fentanyl Act – Rep. Morgan Griffith (VA-9)
   • This legislation permanently extends President Trump's 2018 Schedule I classification of fentanyl-related substances to give law enforcement the tools they need to keep Americans safe from dangerous illicit drugs. Today, illicit fentanyl poisoning is the leading cause of death among young adults 18-45 years old.
2. H.R. 26 – Protecting American Energy Production Act – Rep. August Pfluger (TX-11)
   • America is the world's leading producer of natural gas and oil, which has resulted in lower prices for consumers and reduced our reliance on energy sourced by foreign nations. To protect domestic energy production, this legislation prevents any president from unilaterally banning hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as fracking.
     

This week, I co-sponsored several pieces of legislation. These bills are as follows: 

1. H.R. 976 – 1071 Repeal to Protect Small Business Lending Act
   • Repeals the small business loan data collection requirements under Section 1071 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. This bill seeks to eliminate costly regulatory burdens on financial institutions, ensuring greater access to credit for small businesses.
     
     
2. H.R. 654 – Taking Account of Bureaucrats Spending (TABS) Act
   • Subjects the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to the traditional congressional appropriations process, just like nearly every other federal agency. Currently, the CFPB is funded directly from the Federal Reserve, resulting in a lack of proper congressional oversight.
     

1. Washington Times: Congress eyes legislation to end pandemic-era eviction rules
2. Just The News: House Judiciary demands communications, documents from Fulton County cooperation with Jan. 6 probe
3. The Federalist: Congressional Committee Wants Data FBI Claimed Was 'Corrupted' In Unsolved J6 Pipe Bomb Case
4. New York Post: Republicans grill FBI over troubling discrepancy about Jan. 6 pipe-bomb suspect still roaming free
5. LifeNews.com: Congressman Introduces Bill to Recognize Unborn Children Have a Right to Life From Conception 

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