[7] In March 2019, a local TV station discovered that 17 vehicles were for sale on Kelly's Uniontown and Butler lots that were the subject of recall notices but had not been repaired.

[8] Kelly's car dealerships received Paycheck Protection Program loans of between $450,000 and $1.05 million to keep staff on the payroll during the coronavirus pandemic.

He chairs or co-chairs several prominent caucuses, including the following: Kelly challenged incumbent Representative Kathy Dahlkemper in 2010.

The district was pushed slightly south, absorbing some rural and Republican territory east of Pittsburgh.

To make up for the increase in population, its southern portion was pushed to the west, leaving Kelly's hometown of Butler just barely inside the district.

[19] Nate Cohn of The New York Times suggested that Kelly would have been in more danger had the 16th absorbed more Democratic-leaning territory northwest of Pittsburgh.

[27][28][29][30] U.S. Representative Katie Porter later introduced legislation that would require all loans under the PPP to be made public.

[33][34] As of August 2022, Kelly opposes President Joe Biden's proposal to forgive $10,000 of student debt for individuals making up to $125,000 per year.

[37][38][39] Kelly has argued against the release of Trump's tax returns by the House Ways and Means Committee.

[45] On November 28, 2020, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court unanimously rejected Kelly's suit, additionally ruling to "dismiss with prejudice.

"[46] In December 2020, Kelly was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v. Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Biden defeated[47] Trump.

The Supreme Court declined to hear the case on the basis that Texas lacked standing under Article III of the Constitution to challenge the results of an election held by another state.

[51] Kelly introduced a resolution to formally call for a bipartisan House task force to investigate the incident.

[53] In September 2024, a few weeks before the 2024 United States presidential election, Kelly joined other Pennsylvania Republican members of Congress in filing a lawsuit that would institute new identification checks on voting for soldiers, sailors, and other residents of the state casting overseas ballots.

"[54] In March 2021, all House Republicans including Kelly voted against the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief bill.

[citation needed] On August 1, 2012, Kelly called the HHS mandate of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) - which requires employers to provide employees with health insurance options - an attack on Americans' constitutionally protected religious rights (because of mandates to cover contraceptives as part of the act) and said that August 1, 2012, would go down in infamy as "the day that religious freedom died".

[58] In September 2021, Business Insider reported that Kelly had violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge (STOCK) Act of 2012, a federal transparency and conflict-of-interest law, by failing to properly disclose a purchase of stock in Beauty Health Company made by his wife worth between $1,001 and $15,000.

[60] In three consecutive Congresses, Kelly landed in the top one-third of most bipartisan members, according to The Lugar Center and Georgetown University's McCourt School of Public Policy.