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RepublicanEarl L. "Buddy" Carter
U.S. Representative · Georgia
Georgia's 1st district
U.S. Representative from Georgia
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How they won their seat
Earl L âBuddyâ Carter won the 2022 U.S. House election in Georgia (District 1) with 59.1% of the vote (156,128 votes).
- Earl L âBuddyâ Carter · Republican59.1%156,128
- Wade Herring · Democrat40.9%107,837
Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.
Inferred legislative agendas
Earl L. 'Buddy' Carter's record has sponsored bills related to healthcare, public safety, and law enforcement, as evidenced by his sponsorship of bills such as the Rural and Underserved Health Care Staffing Act and the Zero Tolerance for Political Violence Act of 2026. Additionally, he has sponsored resolutions condemning political violence and supporting law enforcement agencies, demonstrated through his legislative activity related to community safety and healthcare issues. Focus areas (from the record): Healthcare · Public Safety · Law Enforcement · Political Violence · Community Support Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. There is a lack of available information for comparison against his legislative activity. What this can't tell you: There is a lack of information regarding the reasons for his legislative choices; There is a lack of available data on the outcomes of the bills; There is an absence of documented community engagement efforts. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.
Showing 2023–2025 term. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.
Activity in office
What Earl L. "Buddy" Carter has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.
Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Monthly voting activity
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- Total
Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.
Vote attendance
Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.
Independence
How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.
Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$126K6%
- Large individual (itemized)$928K45%
- PAC / committee$1.0M49%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Energy and CommerceOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on the BudgetOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce — EnvironmentOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce — Communications and TechnologyOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Energy and Commerce — HealthOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
210 sponsored bills · finance on fileFacts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.
FEC 2026 cycle — raised $2,597,666, spent $1,396,344, cash on hand $0.
View the FEC filing ↗Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HR 9266: Chief Chris Eddy’s Law ↗Jun 11, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8678: Zero Tolerance for Political Violence Act of 2026 ↗May 7, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8538: Save America’s Family Forests Act of 2026 ↗Apr 28, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1168: Recognizing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for their work in protecting communities from violent criminals and illegal aliens. ↗Apr 14, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7686: Rural and Underserved Health Care Staffing Act ↗Feb 25, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7528: GAP Supply Act ↗Feb 12, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7462: Farmers’ AID Relief Act ↗Feb 10, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7423: No Sanctuary Cities Act of 2026 ↗Feb 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7352: PASTEUR Act of 2026 ↗Feb 4, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1026: Condemning the violent disruption of a religious worship service at Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, reaffirming the constitutional right to religious freedom, and commending the Department of Justice for its prompt investigation. ↗Jan 30, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6975: Fraud Accountability Act ↗Jan 8, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6559: Thiokol Memorial Gold Medal Act ↗Dec 10, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 210 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 483
- Nay
- 138
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 34
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Yea
- HR1501Yea
- HJRES1Yea
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HRES1490Yea
- HRES1499Yea
- HRES1499Yea
- HR6500Yea
- S32Yea
- S307Yea
- HR8884Yea
- HCONRES89Nay
- HCONRES113Yea
- HR7008Yea
- HR7008Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Yea
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
1 position on recordThe record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.
- Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting NO on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.
SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.View position & sources →
Disclosure
A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.
No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.
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