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U.S. Representative · Georgia 1st District
Earl L. "Buddy" Carter
RepublicanDistrict R+8119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score18#414 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Earl L. "Buddy" Carter’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2432 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-1001
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
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
- StrongBacks 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.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1266 Combating Illicit Xylazine Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1993 25th Anniversary of 9/11 Commemorative Coin Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 2701 Fallen Servicemembers Religious Heritage Restoration Act
Keeps them with Republicans · 1 signal
- MediumVotes 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).
Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn 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 CommerceMajority · 6th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Health
- Subcommittee on Communications and Technology
- Subcommittee on Environment
- House Committee on the BudgetMajority · 6th in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR 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 Congress89House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 51–100 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 6427Airport Regulatory Relief Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 27
| Entrenched |
| H.R. 6460 |