News List

U.S. Representative Earl L. "Buddy" Carter is continuing his fight against President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate, warning it could exacerbate workforce shortages at hospitals and nursing homes.   In letter to President Biden, Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Chiquita Brookes, Carter and… Read more »

U.S. Representatives Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA) and Diana Harshbarger (R-TN), currently the only two pharmacists serving in Congress, today introduced legislation to block the Biden Administration’s proposed vaccine mandate for private employers.  The Blocking Joseph Robinette Biden’s Overreaching Mandates Act would prohibit the federal government from forcing private sector… Read more »

U.S Representatives Earl L. "Buddy" Carter (R-GA) and Jim Hagedorn (R-MN) today introduced a resolution disapproving of Major League Baseball’s (MLB) action in closing the Miken Sports plant in Caledonia, Minnesota that will outsource manufacturing jobs to communist China while encouraging MLB to buy American-made products.   In July, Rawlings Sporting Goods, owned by the… Read more »

U.S. Representative Earl L. "Buddy" Carter is urging Georgians to heed a recently issued Public Safety Alert by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s (DEA) warning about an increase in counterfeit prescriptions in pills containing fentanyl and meth. “We have an epidemic on our hands,” said Carter. “These deadly fake pills are increasingly easy to purchase and widely… Read more »

U.S. Representative Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) voted against Washington Democrats' socialist tax and spending spree during the House Budget Committee’s markup today of the bill, which currently spends $4.3 trillion, with several House committees violating their reconciliation instructions. It is the most expensive piece of legislation in the history of the United States that… Read more »

U.S. Representatives Earl L. “Buddy” Carter, R.Ph., (R-GA) and Scott DesJarlais, M.D., (R-Tenn) authored a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra expressing concerns over the distribution of monoclonal antibody therapies.   The Department of Health and Human Services made changes to the policy just days after President Biden announced… Read more »

U.S. Representative Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) voted today against Democrats’ “Abortion on Demand Act” (H.R. 3755), which overrides all state and federal pro-life provisions allowing abortions to allow abortions up until birth. … Read more »

… Read more »

Washington, D.C.- U.S. Representative Earl L. Buddy Carter released the following statement regarding the news of the August 29th airstrike killing Afghan civilians including 7 children.   “I am praying for the families of the victims,” said Carter. “President Biden’s incompetence and negligence surrounding the withdrawal from Afghanistan is astounding. My heart aches at the… Read more »

U.S. Representative Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) voted against Washington Democrats' "Build More Inflation Act" in House Energy and Commerce Committee full markup, calling it a socialist agenda intended to destroy American freedoms.    “This is not the American way," said Carter. "The Left's "Build More Inflation Act" will hurt our economy and stifle the growth… Read more »