Today, Rep. John R. Carter (R-TX-31) released the following statement in regards to President Trump's updated Executive Order on extreme vetting and travel moratorium for certain countries of interest. Read more »

Today, Rep. John R. Carter released the following statement in regards to his tour of the southern border of Texas. Read more »

Today, President Trump signed two executive orders to roll back aspects of the Dodd-Frank Act, and put a hold on the Obama Administrations Fiduciary Rule. Earlier today he also announced the United States has imposed new sanctions on Iran. Rep. John R. Carter (R-TX-31) released the following statements in regards to the President's actions. Read more »

Today, Rep. John R. Carter (R-TX-31) released the following statement in regards to President Trump's recent Executive Order on extreme vetting. The Executive Order was signed by the President on Friday, January 27. Read more »

Today, Rep. John R. Carter (R-TX-31) released the following statement in regards to President Trump's executive orders on Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States, and Border Security and Immigration Enforcement Improvements. Read more »

(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Rodney Frelinghuysen, announced the 12 Appropriations Subcommittee Chairs for the 115th Congress. Rep. John R. Carter (R-TX-31) has been elected to the position of Chairman of the Subcommittee on Homeland Security, which appropriates all funding for the Department of Homeland Security and its agencies. Two other Texans were also named as subcommittee chairs: Kay Granger will chair Defense Appropriations Subcommittee and John Culberson will continue his chairmanship of the Commerce, Justice, and Science Appropriations Subcommittee. Read more »

WASHINGTON –Today U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), U.S. Representative Filemon Vela (TX-34), U.S. Representative Michael McCaul (TX-10) and U.S. Representative John Carter (TX-31) sent a letter to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske urging him to classify the 2014 death of Border Patrol Agent Javier Vega Jr. as a line of duty fatality and help to make sure that his family receives the corresponding benefits afforded public safety officers who are killed in the line of duty. Read more »

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and U.S. Rep. John Carter (R-TX) issued the following statements after President Obama signed their bill, the POLICE Act, into law Friday: Read more »

(WASHINGTON, DC) – Today, Rep. John R. Carter (R-TX-31), along with his Texas Republican colleagues, joined Governor Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick in sending a letter to President Obama regarding the Syrian Refugee crisis. The letter calls into question the handling of the Syrian refugee crisis by the administration given the stated intention by ISIS to infiltrate and exploit the program to carry out attacks on the west. Read more »

(WASHINGTON, DC) – Rep. John R. Carter (R-TX-31) responded to the Supreme Court's ruling today to uphold a lower court's decision and block President Obama's illegal amnesty. The lower court had sided with Texas, and put a hold on the President's executive overreach to defer deportation and provide work authorization to millions of illegal immigrants. Read more »