Press Releases

RICHMOND HILL – Rep. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA) secured $4.78 million for the Georgia Department of Transportation for I-95 interchange improvements at Belfast Keller Road as part of the Fiscal Year 2024 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. This funding will support the joint effort between the City of Richmond Hill and Bryan… Read more »

BRUNSWICK – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) secured $11.35 million for the Georgia Ports Authority’s (GPA) construction phase of the Brunswick Harbor Modifications project as part of the Fiscal Year 2024 Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies Appropriations Act. This funding will allow the Army Corps of Engineers to modify the existing federal navigation channel at… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) released the following statement today after the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 7521, the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which he was proud to cosponsor: “Hostile foreign nations should not have control over any application that mines and stores American users’ data - period. I… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Reps. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Greg Steube (R-FL), Terri Sewell (D-AL), Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA), Jefferson Van Drew (R-NJ), and Joe Morelle (D-NY) today introduced the Telehealth Modernization Act of 2024 to permanently extend telehealth flexibilities for Medicare beneficiaries. This bill will ensure permanent access to… Read more »

 President Biden was supposed to deliver a State of the Union speech last week, but ended up hosting a Washington Democrat pep rally on the House floor instead. Needless to say, I was disappointed.  The American people needed to hear three things from the President during his address: his plan to secure the border, his budget outline, and his national security strategy. In Case… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) cosponsored a resolution led by Reps. Lori Chavez-DeRemer (R-OR), Michelle Steel (R-CA), and Juan Ciscomani (R-AZ) that expresses support for in vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports that 19 percent of women face infertility. As stated in the resolution, IVF has proven to be… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) gave the following response today after President Biden delivered his third State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress: “Early on, I said I needed to hear three things from President Biden tonight: his plan to secure the border, an outline of his budget, which was due February 5th, and his national security strategy.… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) today issued the following statement after President Biden pushed for an expansion of the Inflation “Reduction” Act’s (IRA) government-controlled drug pricing mandates, which threaten the development of up to 342 cures and treatments and has already resulted in multiple cancer and rare-disease drugs being pulled from the… Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) will attend Thursday’s State of the Union (SOTU) address with guest Jennelle Stephenson, a sickle cell disease (SCD) patient who received one of the first successful curative sickle cell treatments approved by FDA in December 2023. Jennelle’s story highlights the life-saving miracle that is American medical innovation and… Read more »

 Washington D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee Chair Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s Environment Subcommittee markup of a bill to modernize air quality standards.   NAAQS PROCESS IS BROKEN  “Just three weeks ago, this Subcommittee held a… Read more »