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Earl L. "Buddy" Carter

U.S. Representative, GA-1

Republican Georgia since Jan 3, 2025

Office record: unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

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Issue areas

Derived from issue-tagged bills they sponsored and stated positions — each links to the underlying record. AI-derived tags

Environment & Energy 1Healthcare 1Transportation & Infrastructure 1

Offices & terms

OfficePartyFromToSource
U.S. Representative, GA-1 current
Georgia
 Republican Jan 3, 2025 Jan 3, 2027 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, GA-1
Georgia
 Republican Jan 3, 2023 Jan 3, 2025 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, GA-1
Georgia
 Republican Jan 3, 2021 Jan 3, 2023 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, GA-1
Georgia
 Republican Jan 3, 2019 Jan 3, 2021 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, GA-1
Georgia
 Republican Jan 3, 2017 Jan 3, 2019 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, GA-1
Georgia
 Republican Jan 6, 2015 Jan 3, 2017 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

Committee assignments

Ideology — academic context, not a GovTally claim

DW-NOMINATE coordinates (Congress 119): economic dim. 0.555, social dim. 0.328. Voteview DW-NOMINATE Voteview-academic

Roll-call votes (583 recorded)

VotePositionDateResultSource
HR 4593 — SHOWER Act Nay Jan 13, 2026 Failed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 2312 — Tipped Employee Protection Act Nay Jan 13, 2026 Failed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 2270 — Empowering Employer Child and Elder Care Solutions Act Nay Jan 13, 2026 Failed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 2262 — Flexibility for Workers Education Act Yea Jan 13, 2026 Failed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 2262 — Flexibility for Workers Education Act Nay Jan 13, 2026 Failed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 988 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2988) to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to specify requirements… Yea Jan 13, 2026 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 988 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2988) to amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to specify requirements… Yea Jan 13, 2026 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 6504 — Haiti Economic Lift Program Extension Act Yea Jan 12, 2026 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 6500 — AGOA Extension Act Yea Jan 12, 2026 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 2683 — Remote Access Security Act Yea Jan 12, 2026 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 5184 — Affordable HOMES Act Yea Jan 9, 2026 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1834 — Breaking the Gridlock Act Nay Jan 8, 2026 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 780 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1834) to advance policy priorities that will break the gridlock. Nay Jan 8, 2026 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 131 — Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act Nay Jan 8, 2026 Failed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 504 — Miccosukee Reserved Area Amendments Act Nay Jan 8, 2026 Failed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 6938 — Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026 Yea Jan 8, 2026 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 6938 — Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026 Yea Jan 8, 2026 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 6938 — Commerce, Justice, Science; Energy and Water Development; and Interior and Environment Appropriations Act, 2026 Yea Jan 8, 2026 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 780 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1834) to advance policy priorities that will break the gridlock. Nay Jan 7, 2026 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 977 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4593) to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to revise the definition of showerhead… Yea Jan 7, 2026 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 977 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4593) to amend the Energy Policy and Conservation Act to revise the definition of showerhead… Yea Jan 7, 2026 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Call of the House Present Jan 6, 2026 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 498 — Do No Harm in Medicaid Act Not voting Dec 18, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 498 — Do No Harm in Medicaid Act Not voting Dec 18, 2025 Failed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 845 — Pet and Livestock Protection Act Not voting Dec 18, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD

Campaign funding

1,002 recorded contributions totalling $2,425,389. Amounts and dates come straight from FEC filings; funding-type labels are software-classified from those filings classified — 150 of 1002 classified so far.

Funding typeContributionsTotalShare
Big donor 134 $384,368 16%
Corporate PAC 14 $280,995 12%
Super PAC 2 $0 0%
Unclassified 852 $1,760,026 73%

Largest contributions

AmountDonorTo committeeTypeDateSource
$47,469 TEAM BUDDY BUDDY CARTER FOR SENATE Corporate PAC Mar 31, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$44,758 TEAM BUDDY BUDDY CARTER FOR SENATE Corporate PAC Sep 30, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$35,000 TEAM BUDDY BUDDY CARTER FOR SENATE Corporate PAC Mar 31, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$29,477 TEAM BUDDY BUDDY CARTER FOR SENATE Corporate PAC Jun 30, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$25,677 AMERIS BANK BUDDY CARTER FOR SENATE Corporate PAC Dec 27, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$19,352 TEAM BUDDY BUDDY CARTER FOR SENATE Corporate PAC Mar 31, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$16,288 TEAM BUDDY BUDDY CARTER FOR SENATE Corporate PAC Dec 14, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$13,323 TEAM BUDDY BUDDY CARTER FOR SENATE Corporate PAC Sep 30, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$10,174 TEAM BUDDY BUDDY CARTER FOR SENATE Corporate PAC Mar 31, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$8,458 AMERIS BANK BUDDY CARTER FOR SENATE Corporate PAC Jun 27, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$8,298 AMERIS BANK BUDDY CARTER FOR SENATE Corporate PAC Mar 27, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$8,254 AMERIS BANK BUDDY CARTER FOR SENATE Corporate PAC Sep 30, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$8,231 AMERIS BANK BUDDY CARTER FOR SENATE Corporate PAC Dec 27, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$6,236 TEAM BUDDY BUDDY CARTER FOR SENATE Corporate PAC Sep 30, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000 POET PAC BUDDY CARTER FOR SENATE unclassified Sep 20, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD

Largest by amount; not the full set. FEC contributor data may not be used for commercial solicitation.

Sponsored legislation (2 as lead sponsor)

Social media

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