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John R. Carter

U.S. Representative, TX-31

Republican Texas since Jan 3, 2025

Office record: unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

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Issue areas

Derived from issue-tagged bills they sponsored and stated positions — each links to the underlying record. AI-derived tags

Offices & terms

OfficePartyFromToSource
U.S. Representative, TX-31 current
Texas
Republican Jan 3, 2025 Jan 3, 2027 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, TX-31
Texas
Republican Jan 3, 2023 Jan 3, 2025 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, TX-31
Texas
Republican Jan 3, 2021 Jan 3, 2023 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, TX-31
Texas
Republican Jan 3, 2019 Jan 3, 2021 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, TX-31
Texas
Republican Jan 3, 2017 Jan 3, 2019 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, TX-31
Texas
Republican Jan 6, 2015 Jan 3, 2017 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, TX-31
Texas
Republican Jan 3, 2013 Jan 3, 2015 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, TX-31
Texas
Republican Jan 5, 2011 Jan 3, 2013 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, TX-31
Texas
Republican Jan 6, 2009 Jan 3, 2011 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, TX-31
Texas
Republican Jan 4, 2007 Jan 3, 2009 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, TX-31
Texas
Republican Jan 4, 2005 Jan 3, 2007 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, TX-31
Texas
Republican Jan 7, 2003 Jan 3, 2005 unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

Committee assignments

Ideology — academic context, not a GovTally claim

DW-NOMINATE coordinates (Congress 119): economic dim. 0.487, social dim. 0.547. Voteview DW-NOMINATE Voteview-academic

Roll-call votes (583 recorded)

VotePositionDateResultSource
HRES 916 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4312) to protect the name, image, and likeness rights of student athletes and to promote fair… Yea Dec 2, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 916 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4312) to protect the name, image, and likeness rights of student athletes and to promote fair… Yea Dec 2, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 4423 — No New Burma Funds Act Yea Dec 1, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 5348 — Social Security Child Protection Act of 2025 Yea Dec 1, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HCONRES 58 — Denouncing the horrors of socialism. Yea Nov 21, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1949 — Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act of 2025 Yea Nov 20, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3109 — REFINER Act Yea Nov 20, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 893 — Censuring Representative Cory Mills of Florida and removing him from the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Yea Nov 19, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 6019 — To repeal certain provisions relating to notification to Senate offices regarding legal process on disclosure of Senate data, and for other… Yea Nov 19, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 4058 — Enhancing Stakeholder Support and Outreach for Preparedness Grants Act Yea Nov 19, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 5107 — Common-Sense Law Enforcement and Accountability Now in DC Act of 2025 Yea Nov 19, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 5214 — District of Columbia Cash Bail Reform Act of 2025 Yea Nov 19, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 888 — Censuring and condemning Delegate Stacey Plaskett and removing her from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for conduct… Yea Nov 18, 2025 Failed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 80 — A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the… Yea Nov 18, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HJRES 131 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land… Yea Nov 18, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HJRES 130 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Land… Yea Nov 18, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 888 — Censuring and condemning Delegate Stacey Plaskett and removing her from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence for conduct… Nay Nov 18, 2025 Failed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 878 — Disapproving the behavior of Representative Jesús G. "Chuy" García of Illinois. Yea Nov 18, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 879 — Providing for consideration of the joint resolution (S.J. Res. 80) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5… Yea Nov 18, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 879 — Providing for consideration of the joint resolution (S.J. Res. 80) providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5… Yea Nov 18, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 4405 — Epstein Files Transparency Act Yea Nov 18, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HRES 878 — Disapproving the behavior of Representative Jesús G. "Chuy" García of Illinois. Nay Nov 17, 2025 Failed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 2659 — Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act Yea Nov 17, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1608 — Department of Homeland Security Vehicular Terrorism Prevention and Mitigation Act of 2025 Yea Nov 17, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 5371 — Continuing Appropriations, Agriculture, Legislative Branch, Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Extensions Act, 2026 Yea Nov 12, 2025 Passed U.S. House Clerk roll-call votes US-GOV-PD

Campaign funding

908 recorded contributions totalling $1,661,733. Amounts and dates come straight from FEC filings; funding-type labels are software-classified from those filings classified — 232 of 908 classified so far.

Funding typeContributionsTotalShare
Big donor 130 $385,427 23%
Corporate PAC 17 $378,380 23%
Super PAC 13 $39,584 2%
Small-dollar 72 $3,072 0%
Unclassified 676 $855,271 51%

Largest contributions

AmountDonorTo committeeTypeDateSource
$64,676 WINRED JOHN CARTER FOR CONGRESS Corporate PAC Mar 31, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$34,571 WINRED JOHN CARTER FOR CONGRESS Corporate PAC Jun 30, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$34,182 WINRED JOHN CARTER FOR CONGRESS Corporate PAC Apr 30, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$31,116 WINRED JOHN CARTER FOR CONGRESS Corporate PAC Oct 31, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$24,748 WINRED JOHN CARTER FOR CONGRESS Corporate PAC Sep 30, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$23,846 WINRED JOHN CARTER FOR CONGRESS Corporate PAC May 31, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$23,594 JUDGE CARTER VICTORY FUND JOHN CARTER FOR CONGRESS Corporate PAC Oct 22, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$22,566 WINRED JOHN CARTER FOR CONGRESS Corporate PAC Sep 30, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$20,457 WINRED JOHN CARTER FOR CONGRESS Corporate PAC Jun 30, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$19,580 WINRED JOHN CARTER FOR CONGRESS Corporate PAC Feb 14, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$19,448 WINRED JOHN CARTER FOR CONGRESS Corporate PAC May 31, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$17,190 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE Super PAC Feb 8, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$17,190 NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE Super PAC Feb 8, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$15,977 WINRED JOHN CARTER FOR CONGRESS Corporate PAC Jan 31, 2024 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$14,716 WINRED JOHN CARTER FOR CONGRESS Corporate PAC Dec 31, 2023 FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)

Largest by amount; not the full set. FEC contributor data may not be used for commercial solicitation.

Sponsored legislation (1 as lead sponsor)

  • HR 8469 US · May 20, 2026
    Making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and…

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