DHS Enforcement Cuts Blasted in Subcommittee HearingCoast Guard personnel, detention space for criminal aliens, and border security rank below the Washington headquarters of the Department of Homeland Security according to the President’s FY2014 budget request, and that has Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Carter (R-TX31) calling for rejection of the… Read more »

Obama Budget decimates DHS enforcements and operations The President’s past-due FY2014 Budget request for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) guts frontline border security, defies statutory requirements to protect Americans from criminal aliens,  and uses budgetary gimmicks to claim false savings, according to House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman… Read more »

Government Shutdown Prevented, House Passes Full-Year Continuing ResolutionChairman Carter and House also pass 10-year balanced budgetChairman John Carter (R-TX31) and fellow U.S. House of Representatives members today approved H.R. 933, the Full-Year Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013, which provides funding to keep the government running until September 30, 2013- the end of the 2013… Read more »

Chairman Carter presses ICE and Director John Morton for answers Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee holds hearing on release of 2,228 criminal aliens The Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee led by Chairman John Carter heard testimony Thursday from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials during a congressional hearing concerning the release of detainees for… Read more »

Carter Sworn into 6th Term, Chairmanship of Homeland Security SubcommitteeCongressman John Carter was sworn into his sixth term in the U.S. House of Representatives today, with a new assignment for the 113th Congress as Chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee.“This is a tremendous honor for which I am in debt to the people of Central… Read more »

3rd Anniversary of Fort Hood Attack Finds Casualties Still Lacking Combat Status(ROUND ROCK, TX) – Three years after an attack on Fort Hood, Texas left 13 adults and one unborn child dead and 32 wounded, the casualties and their families are still being denied proper benefits by the Obama Administration for political reasons, according to Congressman John Carter, who represents the… Read more »

Administration Responses to Benghazi and Ft. Hood Demonstrate Pattern of Denial (ROUND ROCK, TX) – A pattern of denial that begin with the Obama Administration’s refusal to acknowledge the 2009 attack on Fort Hood, Texas that left 13 adults and one unborn child dead and 32 wounded has been continued with the Administration’s botched response to the deadly attack on the… Read more »

Carter Calls for Prayer, Vigilance, and Resolve on 9-11 Americans should continue to pray for the victims and families who suffered from the September 11, 2001 radical Islamic attacks against the United States, and for the military members and families who have sacrificed to defeat those enemies and protect the country from further mass attacks, according to House Republican Conference… Read more »

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 23, 2012                                    Texas Republicans Support ICE Agents Suing Administration Over Amnesty ProgramSeveral U.S. Immigration and Customs… Read more »

For Immediate Release: July 27, 2012Border Patrol Station Closings Denied by CongressThe planned closing of multiple U.S. Border Patrol stations by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been denied by the powerful House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, according to subcommittee member U.S. Representative John Carter (R-TX31). “I applaud our Chairman… Read more »