Member of Congress · 119th Congress
John R. Carter
John Carter is a Republican U.S. representative from Texas, in Congress since 2003, who voted with most Republicans on 98% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes and has had 2 bills become law since 2013.
How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.
5 most recent votes
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass — Retire through Ownership ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Water Resources Development Act of 2026Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass, as Amended — Ratepayer Protection ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Passage — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule issued by the Environmental Protection…Sep 16, 2026 · Passed
- YeaOn Passage — PROOF ActSep 16, 2026 · Passed
5 most recent bills
- H.R. 8469 Making appropriations for military construction, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2027, and…Jul 14, 2026 · Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 455.
- H.R. 7489 Georgetown VA Community-Based Outpatient Clinic Authorization Act of 2026Mar 2, 2026 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Health.
- H.R. 3944 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026Sep 18, 2025 · Message on House action received in Senate and at desk: House requests a conference.
- H.R. 2360 To permanently extend the exemption from the engine compartment portion of the pre-trip vehicle inspection skills testing requirement for school bus drivers…Mar 26, 2025 · Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
- H.R. 8580 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2025Sep 12, 2024 · Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 506.
Top bills sponsored
- H.R. 298 (112th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 500 East Whitestone Boulevard in Cedar Park, Texas, as the "Army Specialist Matthew…Became law
- H.R. 2422 (111th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2300 Scenic Drive in Georgetown, Texas, as the "Kile G. West Post Office Building".Became law
- H.R. 3974 (110th) To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 797 Sam Bass Road in Round Rock, Texas, as the "Marine Corps Corporal Steven P. Gill…Became law
- H.R. 1731 (108th) Identity Theft Penalty Enhancement ActBecame law
- H.R. 1732 (108th) Williamson County Water Recycling Act of 2004Became law
- H.R. 4366 (118th) Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024Became law
- H.R. 4854 (115th) Justice Served Act of 2018Became law
- H.R. 1133 (115th) Veterans Transplant Coverage Act of 2017Passed a chamber
Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.
Committees
- House Committee on AppropriationsCommerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies, Defense, Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies
Elections Rep. Carter has won
Rep. Carter has won 12 U.S. House elections (2002–2024). Of the contested races, margins ran from 2.9 to 65.1 points.
Full election history for this seat →
Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.
How has Texas’s 31st district done while Rep. Carter served?
2012 to 2021 in TX-31: typical household income was up 11% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 1.6 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 1.8 points.
Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Teal = district, oxblood = state, grey = U.S.
While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in Texas’s 31st district during Carter’s time representing it (2003 to now). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.
Only one set of district lines is shown. TX-31 was redrawn in 2012 and again in 2022, and a redrawn district is a different place. So this card shows only the longest stretch on the same lines during the term, 2012 to 2021 (no 2020 yearly estimate), not the full 2003 to now.
Local offices
Offices in the district or state, as listed in a public-domain community file. The Washington office is in the Contact section above.
- Belton office2180 North Main Street, Suite #I-10, Bell County Office, Belton, TX 76513
Phone 254-933-1392 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap) - Georgetown office4411 S Ih-35, Suite 101, Georgetown, TX 78626
Phone 512-591-9061 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Evidence
- File
- legislators-district-offices-2026-09-24-8d698e92.json, entries C001051-belton, C001051-georgetown (2 offices)
- Published at
- https://unitedstates.github.io/congress-legislators/legislators-district-offices.json
- File date
- September 24, 2026 (server “last modified”)
- Retrieved by PORKER
- October 16, 2026
- File SHA-256
8d698e92f8ebae3bdd387bfef239584164160e59d444ba1cbff46f32aa450f59- Licence
- CC0 1.0 (public domain)
Read this first. This list is kept up by volunteers and may be out of date. Confirm hours and addresses on the member’s official site, carter.house.gov.
Official records on bills this member sponsored
119th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 4 bills sponsored.
| Record | Bills | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Bills sponsored | 4 | Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 26, 2026 ↗ See them → |
| With a sponsor’s constitutional-authority statement | 4 | See the 4 → |
| With a CBO cost estimate listed | 0 | None listed |
| With a committee report listed | 2 | See the 2 → |
| With a Congress.gov note | 1 | See the 1 → |
Evidence
- How counted
- Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 119th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
- Fields
- cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
- PORKER copy refreshed
- October 26, 2026 (nightly)
Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.
Data as of Oct 26, 2026 (member stats) · latest recorded House vote Sep 16, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.