carter: hello, i'm buddy carter, and i represent the first district of georgia. this week, i held seven town-hall meetings with people from all over our district. we talked about a lot of different issues. but the one thing i heard over and over again was this. people are frustrated. they're working as hard as ever to pay the bills and put food on the table. but they're just not getting anywhere. their problems are growing. but their paychecks aren't. and at this point, they've come to see washington as the place where bad ideas go to take root, and where good ideas go to die. that's why house republicans are taking action. earlier this year, we decided we had to go from being an opposition party to a proposition party. if we didn't like the direction the country was going in, then it was up to us to offer an alternative. well, now, we have offered that alternative. and we're calling it a better way. it's our six-part plan to get the country back on track. in it, we tackle some of the biggest issues of the day, poverty, national security, the economy, the constit