Earl L. "Buddy" Carter Republican · GA-1
House of Representatives · in office · serving since 2015 · born September 6, 1957
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In plain language
Of 36 disclosed trades, 0 were flagged by the site's published rules.
None of these trades met the flagging rules. That is the ordinary result — most trades, by most members, are unremarkable.
Across the whole database, congressional trading beats the market by close to nothing on average, and only slightly more trades look unusual than chance alone would produce. Most members, most of the time, are unremarkable. That is the backdrop for anything you read here. A flag is a prompt to look at the record, never a finding about a person.
Campaign money 2024 cycle
Campaign finance from the FEC, shown as context beside the trading record. We do not draw a line from any donor to any trade: the FEC's donor data cannot support that honestly, and inventing the link would be the kind of unsourced inference this site refuses. Read the two together and judge for yourself.
Seat & district history
| Seat | Congresses | Served | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| GA-1 | 114th–119th | 2015–2027 | first seat |
District numbers change when a state is redistricted, so a renumbering here is not necessarily a move — the boundaries were redrawn around the member. Term records come from the public congress-legislators dataset.
Committees
Current (119th Congress)
| Committee | Position | Rank | Side | Jurisdiction |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| House Committee on Energy and Commerce | Member | 6 | majority | record |
| House Committee on the Budget | Member | 6 | majority | record |
Earlier Congresses
| Congress | Committee | Position | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 118th | House Committee on Energy and Commerce | Member | 2023-02 → 2024-11 |
| 118th | House Committee on the Budget | Member | 2023-02 → 2024-11 |
| 117th | House Committee on Energy and Commerce | Member | 2021-03 → 2022-11 |
| 117th | House Committee on the Budget | Member | 2021-03 → 2022-11 |
| 116th | House Committee on Energy and Commerce | Member | 2019-01 → 2020-12 |
| 115th | House Committee on Energy and Commerce | Member | 2017-01 → 2018-12 |
| 114th | House Committee on Education and Workforce | Member | 2015-02 → 2016-12 |
| 114th | House Committee on Homeland Security | Member | 2015-02 → 2016-12 |
| 114th | House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform | Member | 2015-02 → 2016-12 |
The published roster covers only the sitting Congress, so earlier assignments are reconstructed from the dated version history of that same public dataset, sampled monthly back to 2012. Observed is the span across which we actually saw the seat held — it is evidence of tenure, not a precise start and end date, and a seat that changed hands between two monthly samples may be dated up to a month out. Committees with no history recorded are absent because no snapshot showed them, which is not evidence the member held no seat.
Currently trading — last 6 months
No transactions disclosed in the last 6 months.
Previously traded
Securities with disclosed transactions before this window and none since. A security leaving this list means no reported trading — not that a position was closed. Holdings themselves are not disclosed in these filings.
| Ticker | Security | Sector | Trades | Buys / Sells | Total value | Active |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ABCB | Ameris Bancorp - Common Stock (ABCB) | Banking | 4 | 0 / 4 | $700,002 | 2024-07 → 2024-07 |
The Spread by year
| Year | Spread | Trades priced | Disclosed value |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | -12.8% | 4 | $700,002 |
Transaction timing versus the market over 90 trading days — not portfolio return, which these filings cannot support. See Methodology and the Scoreboard for the population baseline.
All transactions
| Date | Ticker | Asset | Action | Amount (as filed) | Owner | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-07 | — | US Treasury Bill | sell | $1,000,001 – $5,000,000 | self | record |
| 2025-06-17 | — | US Treasury Bill | buy | $1,000,001 – $5,000,000 | self | record |
| 2025-06-17 | — | US Treasury Bill | sell | $1,000,001 – $5,000,000 | self | record |
| 2025-04-15 | — | US Treasury Bill | buy | $1,000,001 – $5,000,000 | self | record |
| 2025-02-28 | — | US TREASURY BILL | buy | $500,001 – $1,000,000 | self | record |
| 2024-07-23 | ABCB | Ameris Bancorp - Common Stock (ABCB) | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | self | record |
| 2024-07-19 | ABCB | Ameris Bancorp - Common Stock (ABCB) | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | self | record |
| 2024-07-19 | ABCB | Ameris Bancorp - Common Stock (ABCB) | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | self | record |
| 2024-07-18 | ABCB | Ameris Bancorp - Common Stock (ABCB) | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | self | record |
| 2023-09-01 | — | Atlanta GA Dev Auth Stdnt HSG | sell | $15,001 – $50,000 | self | record |
| 2023-05-01 | — | Sterling Capital Mgt Mid Val | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | self | record |
| 2023-05-01 | — | Neuberger Berman Intl ADR | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | self | record |
| 2023-05-01 | — | Kayne Anderson Sm Quality Val | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | self | record |
| 2023-05-01 | — | Eaton Vance Large Value | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | self | record |
| 2023-05-01 | — | Eaton Vance Large Value | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | self | record |
| 2023-05-01 | — | 2000105211 Winslow Large Cap Growth | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | self | record |
| 2021-12-28 | — | Winslow Large Cap growth | sell | $250,001 – $500,000 | self | record |
| 2021-12-28 | — | Uniplan Investment Equity REIT | sell | $250,001 – $500,000 | self | record |
| 2021-12-28 | — | Sterling Capital Mgt Mid Val | sell | $100,001 – $250,000 | self | record |
| 2021-12-28 | — | Neuberger berman Intl AdR | sell | $50,001 – $100,000 | self | record |
| 2021-12-28 | — | Kayne Anderson Sm Quality Val bcdefg | buy | $15,001 – $50,000 | self | record |
| 2021-12-28 | — | Eaton Vance Large Value cdefg | sell | $250,001 – $500,000 | self | record |
| 2021-02-09 | — | First Trust Stifel best Picks Jan 21 | buy | $15,001 – $50,000 | self | record |
| 2020-08-28 | — | AUgUSTA gA WTR & SWR RFDg & IMPT 2ND RESOLUTN | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2020-07-30 | — | bULLOCH CNTY gA DEV STDNT HSDg REV RFDg gA STHRN UNIV defgc | buy | $15,001 – $50,000 | self | record |
| 2020-07-30 | — | Alternative Investment Partners Absolute Return Fund | sell | $250,001 – $500,000 | self | record |
| 2020-06-25 | — | FULTON CNTY gA WTR & SWR REV | buy | $15,001 – $50,000 | self | record |
| 2020-05-13 | — | PRIVATE CLLgS & UNIV REV SAVANNAH CLLg ART & DSgN | buy | $15,001 – $50,000 | self | record |
| 2020-05-13 | — | MARIETTA gA DEV AUTH RFDg SPSU STDNT HSg cefgd | buy | $15,001 – $50,000 | self | record |
| 2019-10-23 | — | MILToN ga PUb bLDgS FaCS | buy | $15,001+ | self | record |
| 2019-08-30 | — | gEoRgIa ST RFDg SER b/E | buy | $15,001+ | self | record |
| 2019-08-02 | — | LaWRENCEVILLE ga bLDg aUTH REV PERFoRMINg aRTS CMPLX (Due 10/01/37) | buy | $15,001 – $50,000 | self | record |
| 2019-08-02 | — | bULLoCH CNTY ga DEV RFDg ga STHRN UNIV HSg FNDTN (Due 08/01/25) gfedc | buy | $15,001 – $50,000 | self | record |
| 2019-07-02 | — | Metropolitan atlanta Rapid Tran | buy | $15,001+ | self | record |
| 2019-05-09 | — | Metropolitan atlanta Rapid Tran auth (07/01/28) | buy | $1,001 – $15,000 | self | record |
| 2019-05-09 | — | Metro atlanta Rapid auth (07/01/36) cdefg | buy | $15,001 – $50,000 | self | record |