R-GA·U.S. House·District 1

Earl L. "Buddy" Carter

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$15.0M

raised· #30 in party

votes recorded

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trade disclosures

votes with party· loyal

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Rep. Carter's fundraising profile is heavily weighted toward PAC and committee contributions, which comprise 74 percent of his $15 million in direct contributions, with the remaining 26 percent drawn from individual donors. His industry-tied PAC money concentrates in health services (20 percent) and pharmaceuticals and biotech (19 percent), sectors also represented among his individual donors who work in pharmaceuticals, health services, and law. Carter has cast 331 recorded votes and disclosed 7 stock trades during his tenure.

Based on FEC donor data and voting records. Statistical patterns only — does not imply causation.

DONOR MIX

Industry shares of CLASSIFIED contributions only · the long tail of small-dollar individual donors isn't tagged

$8.2M

tagged $

Health Services23.4%

Pharmaceuticals & Biotech22.7%

Party & Leadership22.5%

Retail & Consumer7.6%

Lawyers & Lobbyists7.2%

Agriculture5.9%

Telecommunications5.6%

Mining & Materials5.1%

How to read this: percentages are shares of the 54% of contributions we can trace to an industry (via PAC names and donor employers). Most political money comes from small online donors who don't list an employer, so it can't be traced — that portion isn't shown here.

DATA SOURCES

Financial: FEC · 2022–2026 cycles

Profile: Congress.gov

Votes: House Clerk / Senate · 2021–present

Lobbying: Senate LDA · 2017–present

Trades: STOCK Act disclosures · live ingestion rebuilding

DONOR MIX

Industry shares of CLASSIFIED contributions only · hover a slice for detail

$15.0M

classified

Health Services23.4%

Pharmaceuticals & Biotech22.7%

Party & Leadership22.5%

Retail & Consumer7.6%

Lawyers & Lobbyists7.2%

Agriculture5.9%

Telecommunications5.6%

Mining & Materials5.1%

TOP SOURCES

Employers (individuals) & PACs · excludes aggregators

CARTER, EARL LEROY

other

$3,000,000

Individual Donors (no employer)

individuals

$1,385,376

TEAM BUDDY

PAC

$914,885

AMERIS BANK

corporation

$118,215

AMERICAN OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$80,000

STIFEL

corporation

$64,474

NATIONAL COMMUNITY PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION - PAC

PAC

$60,000

ALLIANCE FOR PHARMACY COMPOUNDING PAC (COMP PAC)

PAC

$60,000

DELTA AIR LINES PAC

PAC

$60,000

THE HOME DEPOT INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$50,000

INTERNATIONAL PAPER POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (IP-PAC)

PAC

$50,000

AMERICAN PHARMACISTS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$50,000

RECENT ACTIVITY

Most recent recorded contributions · PAC and itemized individual donors

AMERICAN OPTOMETRIC ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · Apr 30, 2026

+$5,000

MURRAY, PENNIE (NONE)

Individual · Apr 29, 2026

+$26

TEAM BUDDY

PAC · Apr 29, 2026

+$13,676

TEAM BUDDY

PAC · Apr 29, 2026

+$5,959

JONES, LINDA (NONE)

Individual · Apr 29, 2026

+$50

CRAIG, CHARLES (NONE)

Individual · Apr 29, 2026

+$50

ABBOTT, DONA (NONE)

SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS

Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.

Diana Harshbarger

R-TN · House

Health ServicesPharmaceuticals & BiotechParty & Leadership

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Gregory F. Murphy

R-NC · House

Health ServicesPharmaceuticals & Biotech

HOW WE CALCULATE THIS

Donor Mix Donut

Shows PAC contributions and employer-attributed individual donations grouped by industry — as a share of classified giving only. Contributions that could not be matched to an industry are excluded from the donut but included in the dollar totals above. Advocacy/ideological PACs are excluded from industry breakdown.

What are aggregators?

WinRed, ActBlue, and similar platforms bundle contributions from many individual donors before passing them to campaigns. Because these don't represent a single entity's interests, they are excluded from the Donor Mix and Top Sources views — but they are counted in total fundraising figures.

Data sources

FEC Schedule A & bulk PAC filings · 2022–2026 cycles · Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) filings · 2017–present · Congress.gov / House Clerk voting records.

Important disclaimer

All data is sourced from public records. Analysis reflects statistical patterns only — it does not imply corruption, intent, or quid pro quo. Donor relationships show financial alignment, not control. Capitol Trail makes no claims about the motivations or character of any individual or organization.

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disclosures

purchases

sales

est. positions

+7 unparsed PTRs — Some older PTR filings exist as metadata only (asset details locked in PDFs). They are not included in the holdings estimate above. House-side parsing landing in a future update.

DATA SOURCES

House: housestockwatcher.com · daily-refreshed PDF parses · 2013–present

Senate: senatestockwatcher.com · daily-refreshed PDF parses · 2013–present

Required under the STOCK Act of 2012. Disclosure regime reports amount ranges, not exact share counts.

WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT

Lobbying is when companies, unions, and trade associations pay firms to influence laws and regulations — and the law requires them to disclose it. Every quarter, registrants file a report with Congress detailing who hired them, how much they spent, and which issues they pushed.

This page filters those filings to the industries that also fund this member's campaign. If commercial banks gave 30% of this member's donations and also filed 5,000 lobbying reports on bank-related issues last year, that's a financial pattern worth knowing about. It does not mean the member is corrupt — it means the industries paying to elect them are also paying to influence the laws they vote on.

90,525

Lobbying filings

that overlap top donor industries

$13.2B

Reported spend

across those filings

Donor industries

tracked here

2017–2026

Years covered

10 years

LOBBYING BY DONOR INDUSTRY

only industries that also fund this member

Each row = an industry that donated to this member AND has lobbyists pushing on Congress. Bar width = reported lobbying spend.

Health Services

46,475 filings$4.9B

Telecom & Broadcasting

23,495 filings$4.0B

Retail & Consumer

4,319 filings$2.1B

Agriculture

15,305 filings$1.5B

TOP LOBBYING FIRMS

The firms doing the most spending in this member's donor industries

WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC.

12 filings

$1.0B

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.

14 filings

$242.0M

PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA

13 filings

$113.6M

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS

8 filings

$104.7M

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

14 filings

$91.7M