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 »
WASHINGTON, D.C. - 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… 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 »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Earl L. “Buddy” Carter (R-GA) released the following statement ahead of President Biden’s planned State of the Union (SOTU) address to a joint session of Congress on Thursday, March 7, which comes on the heels of UGA student Laken Riley’s murder at the hands of an illegal immigrant that reignited calls to secure the southern border:
"I’ve seen enough. If the… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Chair of the House Energy and Commerce Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee, Earl L. "Buddy Carter (R-GA), Western Caucus Chairman Dan Newhouse (WA-04), and Western Caucus Vice Chair Bruce Westerman (AR-04) were joined by 108 members of the House of Representatives in demanding the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rescind the… Read more »
WASHINGTON, D.C. — House Energy and Commerce Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials Subcommittee Chair Buddy Carter (R-GA) delivered the following opening remarks at today’s subcommittee legislative hearing on the EPA’s harmful new particulate matter standards that will crush American manufacturing and jobs.
CURRENT NAAQS STANDARDS
“The Clean Air Act… Read more »