WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today U.S. Congressman John Carter (TX-31) applauded final House passage of the USA PATRIOT and Terrorism Prevention Reauthorization Act, which will help law enforcement personnel keep our country safe from terrorist threats. The bill makes permanent a number of policies tha... Read more »

When Thaddeus Stevens was a young lawyer, he once had a case before a bad-tempered judge of an obscure Pennsylvania court. Under what he considered a very erroneous ruling, the case was decided against him. Stevens threw down his books and picked up his hat in a state of indignation, scattering impr... Read more »

Washington, D.C. – U.S. Representative John R. Carter (TX-31) made the following statement after the passage of the legislation concerning the case of Terri Schiavo, which he supported: "If the government has a legitimate function, ... Read more »

Governor James Stephen Hogg, the first native-born governor of Texas, requested that when he died, no monument be placed at his grave; but that instead there be planted, "at my head a pecan tree, and at my feet an old-fashioned walnut, and when these trees shall bear, let the pecans and walnuts b... Read more »

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Representative John Carter (TX-31) was sworn into his second term of serving the 31st Congressional District, today. "This is a great honor the good people of the 31st District have bestowed upon me," Carter said. Carter arrived in Washington this weekend to begin working ... Read more »