Earl L. "Buddy" Carter

RepublicanDistrict R+8119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score13#412 of 431 representatives across tracked bills

Contact Earl L. "Buddy" Carter’s office

Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators dataset

Call office 202-225-5831 Contact via website

Washington, D.C. office

2432 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-1001

Model

v3defaultv2

Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

Signals to watch

What in this member’s district, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.

Could pull them toward Democrats · 1 signal

Strong
Backs 3 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 3 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 1266, H.R. 1993, H.R. 2701.

Keeps them with Republicans · 1 signal

Medium
Votes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.555 (party median +0.530; rank 121 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 89 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).

Bill-specific inputsVotes on similar past bills and committee seats vary by bill, so they appear in the swing-v3 scores below rather than here.

Term and election

From the congress-legislators dataset

On the ballot 2026

Current term: January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
Next election: November 3, 2026
Years in office: 11.8 years

Committees

Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3

House Committee on Energy and Commerce
Majority · 6th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Health
- Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
- Subcommittee on Environment
House Committee on the Budget
Majority · 6th in seniority

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

R median

D median

Carter

← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →

Their score of +0.555 is 0.03 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the House Republican average

119th Congress89
House Republican average: 86 (n=217)

Swing score by bill

swing-v2 · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Showing 51–100 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Earl L. "Buddy" Carter on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 225HUD Transparency Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov	No position yetNow in the Senate	13	Entrenched
H.R. 227Clergy ActSummary on Congress.gov