Rep. Jody Hice
Former Representative for Georgia’s 10th District
pronounced JOH-dee // hīss
Hice was the representative for Georgia’s 10th congressional district and was a Republican. He served from 2015 to 2022.
![Photo of Rep. Jody Hice [R-GA10, 2015-2022]](/static/legislator-photos/412623-200px.jpeg)
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his advisors and associates, 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.
Hice was among the Republican legislators who participated in the attempted coup. Shortly after the election, Hice 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. In the case, Republicans proffered lies and a novel legal theory 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.) Hice was also a part of a coordinated campaign by the Trump Administration to pressure the Vice President to exclude some Democratic states from the electoral count rather than follow the procedure set in law in which Congress may vote to exclude electors, and other extrajudicial strategies to suppress certified election results. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Hice voted to omit Arizona and/or Pennsylvania from the counting of presidential electors, which could have altered the outcome of the election in Trump’s favor.
In 2023, Trump associates and top advisors pleaded guilty to submitting a fraudulent slate of electors to Congress from Georgia, making false statements about purported widespread fraud in the election, and tampering with voting machines after the election, admitted in civil court to posing as fake electors in Wisconsin, and were convicted of contempt of Congress for withholding documents during its investigation and assaulting police officers at the Capitol. Trump associates and top advisors are also facing charges for submitting fraudulent slates of electors to Congress (in Michigan, Nevada, and Arizona) and Trump himself faces criminal charges for soliciting the Vice President to subvert Congress’s certification of the election, coordinating the fraudulent slates of electors, and inciting the insurrection at the Capitol. The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups one member of which was convicted of sedition, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.
Analysis
Legislative Metrics
Read our 2022 Report Card for Hice.
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Hice is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot was a member of the House of Representatives in 2022 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 Hice sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Dec 27, 2022. See full analysis methodology.
Enacted Legislation
Hice was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:
Does 1 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
Hice sponsored bills primarily in these issue areas:
Government Operations and Politics (41%) Public Lands and Natural Resources (19%) Crime and Law Enforcement (12%) Immigration (9%) Transportation and Public Works (6%) Health (6%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (6%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Hice recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.Res. 1455 (117th): Honoring the life and legacy of Vince Dooley and expressing condolences to …
- H.Res. 1214 (117th): Condemning the illegal intimidation tactics of extreme left-wing organizations.
- H.R. 7095 (117th): Accountable Feds Act
- H.R. 6967 (117th): Chance to Compete Act of 2022
- H.R. 4519 (117th): Presidential Allowance Modernization Act of 2021
- H.R. 4364 (117th): To redesignate Gravelly Point Park, located along the George Washington Memorial Parkway …
- H.R. 4050 (117th): Nuclear Family Priority Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2015 to Dec 2022, Hice missed 139 of 4,487 roll call votes, which is 3.1%. This is worse than the median of 2.0% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Dec 2022. 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
