For Immediate Release: September 15, 2011An outright ban on new job-killing regulations would provide a cost-free economic jumpstart for creating private sector jobs, and House Republican Conference Secretary John Carter is calling on fellow House members to pass his bill to do just that as part of any fall jobs package considered by Congress. “The President has already… Read more »
For immediate release: September 15, 201170 key Hill staffers packed a briefing yesterday on the Congressional Review Act (CRA) hosted by Republican Conference Secretary John Carter, as Congress scrambles for legislative tools to restore and create private sector jobs. “America needs jobs, and taking on the tsunami of regulations spawned by this Administration is one of the… Read more »
Please join me tonight at roughly 7:00pm Central time for another live webcast from our Washington office on the debt ceiling debate along with the latest on securing our borders, fighting job-killing regulations, and any other Congressional issue in which you have an interest.The webcast will be live on our website at WWW.HOUSE.GOV/CARTER, and also viewable simultaneously on our UStream… Read more »
For immediate release: June 2, 2011Homeland Security funds must be used to secure the nation, instead of studying questionable and duplicative climate change science, thanks to an amendment by Congressman John Carter (R-TX) to HR 2017, the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act of 2012. The amendment passed today by a wide 242-180 margin. The amendment… Read more »
For Immediate Release: May 20, 2011Carter Applauds EPA Rule WithdrawalUrges House to continue pressure on new red tape with Congressional Review Act (ROUND ROCK, TEXAS) – The EPA withdrawal of job-killing new regulations on major source boilers and industrial incinerators should encourage Congress to keep up the oversight pressure on new red tape with the Congressional Review Act,… Read more »
For Immediate Release: February 18, 2011Czars Defunded; Greenhouse Gas, Cement Rules Blocked Triple Legislative Wins for Carter in Budget BattleCongressman John Carter chalked up three legislative wins this week in floor action on the FY 2011 Continuing Resolution, defunding the Obama Administration’s "Czars", and the EPA’s attempts to implement new job-killing… Read more »
Texas sovereignty over environmental permitting would be restored under a Congressional Review Act (CRA) challenge to the EPA’s new regulation overturning the state’s 16-year old Clean Air Act permitting process.Congressman John Carter today filed a resolution of disapproval on the EPA’s new rule which seeks to strip the state of Texas of its legal authority under the… Read more »
Americans have been ignored for too long, and they’re ready to speak out about what the government is – but mostly isn’t – doing to help them out in a time of need.This Saturday, July 3, Congressman John Carter (TX-31) will host his second townhall event as part of the “America Speaking Out” initiative to gather ideas from the American people and… Read more »
Blocking new oil exploration and punishing consumers with an energy tax will drive gas prices through the roof and cost hundreds of thousands more American jobs, according to Congressman John Carter (R-TX31).Carter today joined a bipartisan news conference of Gulf state Members of Congress who urged President Obama to lift the Administration’s moratorium on new offshore oil… Read more »
