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    U.S. Representative John R. Carter was re-elected in a landslide in November 2014 to his seventh term representing Texas' Thirty-First Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Carter was selected as Chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Appropriations and also to serve on the Commerce, Justice and Science Subcommittee and Defense Subcommittee. This is also Congressman Carter's fourth term to serve as Co-Chairman of the bipartisan House Army Caucus. He has been a member of the House Appropriations Committee since 2004.

    Since his first election in 2002, Congressman Carter has established himself as a leader in Congress who has the foresight and courage to author and support numerous pieces of legislation that would increase the protection of U.S. citizens and bring justice to those who threaten our freedom and way of life.

    Congressman Carter is one of the few House Members who has authored legislation signed into law under both Presidents Bush and Obama. In spite of now being a veteran Congressman, John Carter is still known as "Judge" for having served over 20 years on the district court bench in Williamson County, which he won as the first county-wide elected Republican in Williamson County history. Before becoming a Judge, Congressman Carter had a successful private law practice and continued to practice law while serving as the Municipal Judge in Round Rock.

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    Congressman Carter's leadership ability has been recognized by his colleagues and others. During his first term, Congressman Carter was named one of the "Top Five Freshman" in Congress by Capitol Hill's leading newspaper.

    In July 2004, President Bush held a signing ceremony for Congressman Carter's Identity Theft bill at the White House. The law lessens the burden of proof making identity theft easier to prove and prosecute and also defines and creates punishment for aggravated identity theft.

    A true Texan at heart, Congressman Carter was born and raised in Houston and has spent his adult life in Central Texas. Carter attended Texas Tech University where he graduated with a degree in History and then graduated from the University of Texas Law School in 1969.Congressman Carter and his wife, Erika, met in Holland and have been happily married since June 15, 1968. Since then they have built a home and raised a family of four on Christian beliefs and strong Texas Values. Congressman Carter and Mrs. Carter are also a proud grandparents to six precious grandchildren.  

     

     

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    Email - http://carter.house.gov/contact-john-nav
    Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/judgecarter
    Twitter - https://twitter.com/JudgeCarter
    YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/user/RepJohnCarter 
    Flickr - http://www.flickr.com/photos/repcarter/
    E-Newsletter - http://carter.congressnewsletter.net/mail/util.cfm?mailaction=profile 
    House Appropriations Committee - http://appropriations.house.gov/

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Committee Assignments

Congressman Carter is currently serving as Chairman of the Homeland Security Subcommittee on Appropriations and also serves on the Commerce, Justice and Science Subcommittee and Defense Subcommittee. He was elected to his third term as Co-Chairman of the bipartisan House Army Caucus. He has been a member of the House Appropriations Committee since 2004.

At the beginning of the 109th Congress, Congressman Carter was elected to serve on the prestigious House Appropriations Committee by the House Republican Steering Committee, where he has served during the past four Congresses.  On the appropriations committee, Congressman Carter sits on three subcommittees which benefit the 31st District. He is the Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security and he sits on the Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense and the Appropriations Subcommitte of Commerce, Justice, and Science. 

What does the Appropriations Committee do?

Congress annually considers 11 or more appropriations measures, which provide funding for numerous activities, for example, national defense, education, homeland security and crime.  These measures also fund general government operations such as the administration of federal agencies.  Congress has developed certain rules and practices for the consideration of appropriations measures, referred to as the congressional appropriations process.

Appropriations measures are under the jurisdiction of the House and Senate Appropriations Committees.  These committees control only about 40 percent of total federal spending provided for a fiscal year.  The House and Senate legislative committees control the rest.

There are three types of appropriations measures.  Regular appropriations bills provide most of the funding that is provided in all appropriations measures for a fiscal year, and must be enacted by October 1 of each year.  If regular bills are not enacted by the deadline, Congress adopts continuing resolutions to continue funding generally until regular bills are enacted.  Supplemental bills are considered later and provide additional appropriations.

Each year Congress considers a budget resolution that, in part, sets spending ceilings for the upcoming fiscal year.  Both the House and the Senate have established parliamentary rules that may be used to enforce certain spending ceilings associated with the annual budget resolution during congressional consideration of appropriations measures.

Congress has also established an authorization-appropriation process which provides for two separate types of measures-authorization measures and appropriation measures.  These measures perform different functions and are to be considered in sequence.  First, the authorization measure is considered and then the appropriation measure.  Authorization measures are under the jurisdiction of the legislative committees, most congressional committees are legislative committees, such as the House Committee on Armed Services and the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.  This process is enforced, in part, by House and Senate parliamentary rules.

Find out more about the Appropriations Committee here. 


In April 2013, during a DHS Appropriations Subcommittee hearing, Congressman Carter questioned and demanded answers from then-Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano on the release of thousands of illegal immigrants from detention centers.

 

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