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Earl L. "Buddy" Carter

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Rep. GA-1 · U.S. House · 6 terms

Congress is in session today
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attendance
Vote attendance live
92%
92/100 · beats 10% of the House
Votes missed live
8
of the last 100 House roll calls
Committees live
2
standing committee seats

Political perspective

from the voting record
More liberalMore conservative

On the standard liberal–conservative scale, Carter sits more conservative than 78% of the House and more liberal than 22%. This is a DW-NOMINATE score — derived purely from how they vote, not an opinion.

Votes with own party
100%
Voted with the party on all 14 recent party-line votes.
Their positions, in their own words
Positions & ratings (Vote Smart) ↗Campaign & issues (Ballotpedia) ↗Background (Wikipedia) ↗Official site ↗

We link to what Cartersays they stand for so you can hold it against the record above. We don't put words in anyone's mouth or declare a promise “kept” or “broken” — where there's no published, structured position to compare, we leave it to you rather than invent a verdict.

Contact

They work for you — reach the office.

buddycarter.house.gov ↗
D.C. office: 202-225-5831
2432 Rayburn House Office Building

Campaign money

live· 2026 cycle
Total raised
$7.3M
From PACs
15.1%
$1.1M
From individuals
27%
$1.9M
Cash on hand
$60K

“From PACs” is corporate, industry, and union political-committee money — a proxy for special-interest funding. Totals via the FEC.

Top sponsors · largest organizational donors
  • AMERICAN OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEEMembership$25K
  • CONTINUING AMERICA'S STRENGTH AND SECURITY PACOther / unclassified$15K
  • FRIENDS OF COMMUNITY ONCOLOGY PACOther / unclassified$13K
  • CENCORA, INC. PACCorporate$10K
  • AMERICAN PHYSICAL THERAPY ASSOCIATION PHYSICAL THERAPY POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (PT-PAC)Membership$10K
  • ALLIANCE FOR PHARMACY COMPOUNDING PAC (COMP PAC)Membership$10K
  • AMGEN INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEECorporate$10K
  • DELTA AIR LINES PACCorporate$10K
Where the PAC money comes from
  • Other / unclassified37%
  • Corporate36%
  • Trade15%
  • Membership12%
  • Cooperative1%
  • Labor0%

Largest PACs and committees giving to the campaign this cycle, from FEC committee-to-candidate filings. The FEC doesn't tag donors by industry — the names usually tell you, and OpenSecrets has the formal industry breakdown below.

Key industries · who the PAC money represents
  • Health & medicine$136K
  • Pharma & biotech$126K
  • Finance & banking$35K
  • Manufacturing$26K
  • Energy & utilities$26K
  • Construction & engineering$19K

Grouped from the names of the PACs that gave — our own rough classification, PAC money only (not individual donors). Another 56% came from PACs we couldn't slot into an industry by name.

FEC filings ↗Top industries & donors (OpenSecrets) ↗

Where the money goes

live· 2026 cycle

Carter's campaign has spent $9.7M across 527 reported disbursements.

Top payees
  • STRATEGIC MEDIA PLACEMENT INC.$6.2M
  • BIG DOG STRATEGIES LLC$1.1M
  • TARGETED VICTORY$651K
  • FUNDRAISING, INC.$253K
  • NATIONAL RESEARCH INC.$197K
  • COEFFICIENT GROUP, LLC$171K
Fundraising & event venues
  • BELLE HAVEN COUNTRY CLUBALEXANDRIA, VA · 2 payments$38K
  • THE RITZ CARLTONGREENSBORO, GA$3K

These are the venues, caterers, and hotels the campaign paidfor events — the money trail to where fundraising happened, with the vendor's city and state. It is not a guest list or attendance: who came, who hosted, and “what the crowd was like” aren't in any public record, so we don't guess at them.

Categories are grouped by keyword from the free-text purpose each campaign reports to the FEC, so the split is a guide, not an audit. Otheris spending whose reported purpose didn't clearly fit a category — campaigns describe disbursements inconsistently. Totals are for the candidate's campaign committees this cycle; see the FEC for the line-by-line record.

Itemized spending at the FEC ↗

Background

Represents Georgia's 1th district · age 69 · from Port Wentworth.

Earl LeRoy "Buddy" Carter is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Georgia's 1st congressional district since 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Carter was a member of the Georgia State Senate from 2009 to 2014.

Before Congress
pharmacistbusiness executive
Education
University of GeorgiaYoung Harris CollegeGroves High School

Biography from Wikipedia & Wikidata (public, CC BY-SA). Family is spouse and children only.

More & sources
Wikipedia ↗Ballotpedia ↗Bioguide ↗Top industries & donors (OpenSecrets) ↗Positions (VoteSmart) ↗

Stock trades

live

Carter has 4 periodic transaction reports on record — stock trades disclosed after the fact under the STOCK Act. Each PDF itemizes the trades.

See it charted on Capitol Trades ↗

From U.S. House Clerk financial disclosures.

Committees

live

What they're assigned to work on.

via congress-legislators committee data.

Who they're up against

Candidates who have filed with the FEC for this House seat— who's challenging them now, and who they faced last time.

Next election

· 2026 cycle
Other-party challengers
Primary challengers (same party)
  • James Morris KingstonRepublicanOpen seat
    $1.9M
    raised ↗
  • Patrick K. FarrellRepublicanOpen seat
    $657K
    raised ↗
  • Brian Allen MontgomeryRepublicanOpen seat
    $268K
    raised ↗
  • Eugene Chin YuRepublicanOpen seat
    $143K
    raised ↗
  • Kandiss TaylorRepublicanOpen seat
    $92K
    raised ↗
  • Krista PennRepublicanOpen seat
    $21K
    raised ↗
  • Monte MonteleoneRepublicanOpen seat
    $18K
    raised ↗

+ 3 other minor candidates with little or no money raised.

Last election

· 2024 cycle
Other-party challengers

+ 3 other minor candidates with little or no money raised.

Candidates and money raised from FEC filings (bulk candidate summaries). Short bios are quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists — never invented; candidates without a sourced bio show their FEC record only.

How Earl actually voted · last 15 bills live

Real roll-call votes from the U.S. House Clerk. “Missed” = recorded as Not Voting.

Congressional calendar · next 12 days

in session recess weekend
Tue 22
in session
Wed 23
in session
Thu 24
in session
Fri 25
in session
Sat 26
weekend
Sun 27
weekend
Mon 28
in session
Tue 29
in session
Wed 30
in session
Thu 1
in session
Fri 2
in session
Sat 3
weekend

The public House legislative schedule — the same for every member, not anyone's personal whereabouts. No flight data, home locations, or real-time tracking.

Every figure here is real and sourced: identity, party, seat, term history, committees and contact (congress-legislators); vote attendance, missed votes & how they voted (U.S. House Clerk, last 100 roll calls through 16-Sep-2026); campaign money raised and spent (FEC); stock-trade disclosures (U.S. House Clerk Periodic Transaction Reports); declared election opponents & the money they raised (FEC candidate filings), with opponent bios quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists; ideological placement (DW-NOMINATE, voteview.com) and party-unity (computed from the roll calls above); biography (Wikidata + Wikipedia); the 2026 session calendar (official schedule). Nothing on this page is invented. wheresmyguy? carries no flight data, home locations, or real-time tracking. Time-stamped information is delayed at least 4 hours by design — wheresmyguy? is never a real-time tracker.