WASHINGTON, D.C. - Reps. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA), Neal Dunn (R-FL), Claudia Tenney (R-NY), Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), and Randy Weber (R-TX) introduced the Health Care Provider Shortage Minimization Act, a bill to address the health care workforce shortage by ensuring that underserved and rural communities can retain highly skilled health care professionals. Hospitals often rely on supplementary p... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter delivered opening remarks at today’s House Committee on the Budget markup for the Concurrent Resolution on the Budget for Fiscal Year 2025. See his full opening remarks here. Rep. Carter’s remarks, as prepared for delivery: Thank you for holding this markup today, Mr. Chairman. Today we are taking a critically important step towards unlocking Presiden... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA), Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, issued the following statement after the Senate confirmed Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK) to serve as Secretary of Health and Human Services: “Making America Healthy Again starts with addressing our nation’s chronic disease epidemic, and Secretary Kennedy is an excellent choice to lea... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) released the following statement today after introducing a bill authorizing President Trump to acquire Greenland and renaming it Red, White, and Blueland: “America is back and will soon be bigger than ever with the addition of Red, White, and Blueland. President Trump has correctly identified the purchase of what is now Greenland as a national ... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Congressman Brett Guthrie (R-KY), Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Congressman Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Health, issued the following statement after the House passed H.R. 27, the HALT Fentanyl Act, by a vote of 312 to 108. “As Republicans work to fix the previous Administration’s border crisis and save lives... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Buddy Carter (R-GA), Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health, delivered the following opening statement at today’s hearing titled Combatting Existing and Emerging Illicit Drug Threats. Subcommittee Chairman Carter's opening statement as prepared for delivery: “As we gavel in the first Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health hearing, American fam... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) released the following statement after President Trump signed his first bill, the Laken Riley Act, into law: “Law and order is being restored in this nation. President Trump was sent to Washington with a mandate to secure our southern border, and he has already taken a critical step to do so by signing this bill into law. Laken Riley deserved t... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Reps. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) and Ron Estes (R-KS) today introduced the HEALTH Panel Act, a bill strengthening congressional oversight of, and statutory authority for, the Congressional Budget Office’s (CBO) Panel of Health Advisers. The bill will help improve the accuracy of CBO’s scores on bills related to health care by codifying the Panel of Health Advisers, establishi... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife, and Fisheries today held a legislative hearing on the Undersea Cable Protection Act, led by Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) and Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), a bill that strengthens national security and global connectivity by safeguarding the United States’ submarine cable infrastructure. The bill accomplishes t... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) today released the following statement after the Biden-Harris Administration announced it will subject 15 additional prescription drugs to government price controls by unelected bureaucrats: “The so-called Inflation ‘Reduction’ Act takes patients out of the frying pan and into the fire – leading to higher list prices for prescription drugs, dec... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) introduced the Disaster Reforestation Act, a bill to help working forests recover from a natural disaster by amending the tax code to recognize the value of destroyed timber. The current tax code disadvantages forest landowners by restricting their ability to claim loss from destroyed timber, harming their ability to reforest lands. Timber typi... Read More »
SAVANNAH – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) invites students and community members across Georgia’s First Congressional District to join him this Valentine’s Day in thanking first responders for the hard work they do to protect their community by participating in his fourth annual “Friends of the First” campaign. Rep. Carter visits with firefighters during Friends of the First 2024 “Friends of t... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) today successfully urged the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to rescind a proposed jobs-killing speed restriction for boats 35’ to 65’ along the Atlantic Coast. The move comes after boaters, harbor pilots, and business owners raised concerns that the new safety regulations, nobly designed to protect the North Atlantic rig... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Reps. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Dan Crenshaw (R-TX), Lloyd Smucker (R-PA), Rick Allen (R-GA), Mike Kelly (R-PA), and Julia Letlow (R-LA) today introduced the Healthcare Freedom and Choice Act, a bill that reinstates a Trump-era policy which increases health care options and lowers costs for Americans, following the Biden Administration’s repeal of the ... Read More »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) released the following statement today after the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) unanimously voted to release a second interim staff report on pharmacy benefit managers’ (PBMs) egregious practices, finding that the top three PBMs marked up drugs for chronic disease patients by as much as 1,000 percent: “Pharmacy benefit managers are stealing hop... Read More »
