WASHINGTON, D.C. - Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) are the pharmaceutical supply chain's hidden middlemen that are driving up costs for prescription medications, delaying access to necessary treatments, and robbing hope from patients. It's time we pull back the curtain on these insidious actors.
Today, the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability will host its first ever… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In honor of National Police Week, U.S. Representative Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) and U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) reintroduced legislation empowering law enforcement to apply our immigration laws in the face of President Biden’s inaction.
The Empowering Law Enforcement Act would grant state and local law enforcement inherent… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) and Congressman Nathaniel Moran (R-TX) introduced the Proportional Reviews for Broadband Deployment Act today, which will remove the additional permitting process for upgrades made to wireless towers.
Under current law, any changes made to existing wireless towers must undergo burdensome environmental and historic… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following Rite Aid, Walgreens, and CVS Pharmacy announcing that they plan to become certified to dispense the chemical abortion drug mifepristone, Reps. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) led 36 House Republicans in a letter calling on the companies to protect the health and safety of women and unborn children.
In the letter, the members write: “We… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) today proudly voted in favor of the strongest border security bill to ever pass through the U.S. House of Representatives, the Secure the Border Act, hours before Title 42 is set to expire and increase the flow of illegal border crossings, which already broke a single-day high on Wednesday of more than 10,000.
H.R. 2, the Secure the… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Ahead of National Police Week, Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) laid a wreath at the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial in honor of Ludowici’s former Police Chief, Francis “Frank” McClelland, Jr., who died in the line of duty in 2018. He was joined by officers from the Savannah Police Department.
Carter lays… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Reps. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Nicole Malliotakis (R-NY), and Jake Auchincloss (D-MA) introduced the Protecting Patients Against PBM Abuses Act to protect patients and pharmacies from harmful pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) practices that make high-quality health care inaccessible and unaffordable.
The bill… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter attended the President of South Korea, Yoon Suk Yeol's joint address to Congress on Thursday. Rep. Carter was honored to serve in President Yeol's escort committee for the address to American lawmakers.
During his address to Congress, President Yeol used Bryan County, GA as an example of good South Korean - American relations,… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA) teamed up with U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL), Senator Jeff Merkley (D-OR) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA) to introduce the bipartisan Stop Institutional Child Abuse Act. This bipartisan, bicameral bill would provide greater oversight and data transparency for institutional youth… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA) took to the House floor on Wednesday to deliver remarks in support of the House Republicans' Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023. This legislation will slash unnecessary government spending, reduce bloated and redundant Washington programs, and restore fiscal sanity to Washington, D.C.
Rep. Carter's remarks:
"Let me begin by… Read more »
