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Carter distributes drug safety materials, calls for more resources for illicit fentanyl poisoning victims during National Crime Victims’ Rights Week

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BRUNSWICK, GA – In recognition of National Crime Victims’ Rights Week (NCVRW), Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA), a pharmacist by trade, on Monday distributed drug safety pocket cards to local schools and called for the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) to provide survivor resources to the families of victims of illicit fentanyl poisoning. …

Carter, Soto, Cartwright, Miller Reintroduce Proposal to Encourage America's Pharmaceutical Independence from China

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Reps. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA), Darren Soto (D-FL), Carol Miller (R-WV), and Matt Cartwright (D-PA) today reintroduced a bill to make the U.S. pharmaceutical supply chain less dependent on China and other foreign adversaries. According to the Food and Drug Administration, approximately 72 percent of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API) used in the U.S. drug…

Carter, Pettersen bill to make permanent the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences passes House

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Reps. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) and Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) today celebrated the House’s passage of their bipartisan bill, the Institute for Telecommunication Sciences (ITS) Codification Act. The bill strengthens the statutory authority of the ITS testing center, which is essential for informing the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s…

ICYMI: Why the establishment is TERRIFIED of FairTax

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HENDERSONVILLE, TN - Rep. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA) last week sat down with former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee, host of The Mike Huckabee Show on TBN, to discuss H.R. 25, the FairTax, which will eliminate the IRS and federal payroll and income taxes in favor of a simple, efficient consumption tax. This will allow Americans to keep the entirety of their hard-earned…

Carter speaks on bipartisan panel at national opioid summit

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ATLANTA, GA -- The 2023 Rx and Illicit Drug Summit featured a congressional panel on day two of the 12th annual conference led by U.S. Rep. Hal Rogers (KY-05), Dean of the House, who launched the national summit to help combat America's deadly epidemic. Congressman Rogers was joined by Reps. Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA), David Trone (D-MD), Matt Cartwright (D-PA), and Andrew Clyde…

Carter, Cuellar, Gallagher introduce bill to ban taxpayer-funded gain-of-function research

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Reps. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), and Chairman of the Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party Mike Gallagher (R-WI) today introduced the bipartisan Pausing Enhanced Pandemic Pathogen Research Act to ban taxpayer dollars from funding gain-of-function research for five years, allowing…

Carter successfully pushes FDA to approve naloxone for over the counter use

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) successfully lobbied the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today to increase access to Emergent Biosolution’s life-saving opioid overdose reversal nasal spray, sold under the brand name Narcan, for use without a prescription. Naloxone nasal spray is a safe, easy to use treatment that is proven “to reduce medical emergencies, drug…

Carter Launches Bipartisan Domestic Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Caucus

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - Reps. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) officially launched the bipartisan Domestic Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Caucus for the 118th Congress.  The caucus will focus on advancing legislation that incentivizes more domestic production for essential medicines to reduce…

Carter introduces resolution condemning the violent “Stop Cop City” attacks in Atlanta

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) introduced a resolution condemning the violent March 5th, 2023 “Stop Cop City” attacks on the Atlanta Public Safety Training Center, which led to destruction of property with weapons including Molotov cocktails and 23 domestic terrorism charges. Only two of those arrested are from the state of Georgia.  Rep.…

WATCH: Carter skewers TikTok over its failure to protect children’s online safety

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WASHINGTON, D.C. - During Thursday’s Energy and Commerce Committee Hearing where TikTok CEO Shou Chew testified about his popular social media app, which is partly owned by the Chinese Communist Party and poses a grave threat to both children’s health and national security, Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) spoke boldly in defense of our nation’s youth. In case you missed it,…