2025–2026 cycle
FEC-reported campaign totals
Receipt categories and contributing committees
No itemized political-committee receipts are available for this cycle.
Republican · U.S. House · TX-31
John R. Carter is a Republican U.S. representative from TX's 31 congressional district. John R. Carter serves as Chair of the House Committee on Appropriations Subcommittee on Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies. John R. Carter has served in Congress since 2003. Paper Trail tracks organization-affiliated PAC contributions, committee assignments, legislation, and documented organization connections associated with this member.

Highlights from available records. Missing information does not mean an activity did not occur.
$174.3K
2025–2026 cycle · after refunds and offsets; not total fundraising.
Inspect records →40
2025–2026 cycle · distinct PACs with positive contribution records.
Inspect records →Aerospace & Defense
2025–2026 cycle · $38K in gross contributions, before refunds and offsets.
Inspect records →4
Distinct linked committees and subcommittees in the available membership records.
Inspect records →Federal Election Commission
FEC campaign totals are tied to this politician’s verified candidate ID and authorized committees. Contributions received are separate from independent expenditures and other outside spending.
2025–2026 cycle
No itemized political-committee receipts are available for this cycle.
2023–2024 cycle
No itemized political-committee receipts are available for this cycle.
Money tracked by Paper Trail
Net tracked contributions
$174,2652025–2026 cycleGross tracked contributions
$174,265Before refunds and offsetsRefunds / offsets
$0Largest tracked PAC
CONSERVATIVE OPPORTUNITY LEADERSHIP AND ENTERPRISE PAC$10,000Net tracked contributions equal positive contribution records minus negative refunds or offsets. These totals include only organization-affiliated PACs currently represented in Paper Trail and are not the politician’s total fundraising.
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American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
American Society of Anesthesiologists
General Dynamics Corporation
Honeywell International
The Boeing Company
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
L3Harris Technologies, Inc.
American Bankers Association
The Home Depot
Northrop Grumman Corporation
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Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers
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American Crystal Sugar Company
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National Association of Home Builders
American Israel Public Affairs Committee
Air Line Pilots Association
American Council of Engineering Companies
National Beer Wholesalers Association
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Ernst & Young
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America's Credit Unions
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Structured organization taxonomy
This gross-contribution distribution excludes refunds and offsets and is not total industry support. Categories use reviewed organization profiles first, then transparent parent-organization and committee-name rules. Political and ideological committees are kept separate from commercial industries.
Institutional position
Paper Trail legislation records
Cosponsor · No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2025 This bill modifies provisions relating to federal funding for, and health insurance coverage of, abortions. Specifically, the bill prohibits the use of federal funds for abortions or for health coverage that includes abortions. Such restrictions extend to the use of funds in the budget of the District of Columbia. Additionally, abortions may not be provided in a federal health care facility or by a federal employee.
Cosponsor · Repealing Big Brother Overreach Act This bill repeals the Corporate Transparency Act. The act requires existing companies and newly created companies to report beneficial ownership information to the Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network for purposes of addressing the financing of terrorism and money laundering.
Cosponsor · Holocaust Education and Antisemitism Lessons Act This bill directs the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum to study and report on Holocaust education efforts in states, local educational agencies (LEAs), and public elementary and secondary schools. Among other elements, the study must (1) determine whether states and LEAs require Holocaust education as part of the curriculum taught in public elementary and secondary schools, (2) identify the standards and requirements relating to Holocaust education, and (3) identify the types of instructional material used to teach students about the Holocaust.
Cosponsor · Referred to the Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committee on House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Cosponsor · This concurrent resolution declares that Congress should not impose any new performance fee, tax, royalty, or other charge relating to the public performance of sound recordings on a local radio station for broadcasting sound recordings over the air, or on any business for such public performance of sound recordings.
Cosponsor · Chiropractic Medicare Coverage Modernization Act of 2025 This bill expands Medicare coverage of chiropractic services to include all services provided by chiropractors, rather than only subluxation corrections through manual manipulation of the spine.
Cosponsor · This measure increases the annual limit on the tax credit for qualified railroad track maintenance expenses (also referred to as the short line railroad tax credit) and expands eligibility for claiming the credit. Under current law, the tax credit is limited each tax year to $3,500 multiplied by the sum of the number of miles of railroad track owned or leased by the taxpayer (miles owned or leased) and the number of railroad track miles assigned to the taxpayer by a Class II or III railroad (miles assigned). This bill increases the annual limit to $6,100 multiplied by the sum of miles owned or leased and miles assigned. The $6,100 amount used in the calculation of the tax credit limit is adjusted for inflation for tax years beginning after 2025.
Cosponsor · Congratulates: (1) the residents of Jerusalem and the people of Israel on the 40th anniversary of the reunification of that historic city; and (2) the people of Israel on the 59th anniversary of their independence. Believes that Jerusalem must remain an undivided city in which the rights of every ethnic and religious group are protected as they have been by Israel during the past 40 years. Calls upon the President and Secretary of State to affirm as a matter of U. S.
Cosponsor · Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act This bill establishes certain criminal grounds for making non-U. S. nationals ( aliens under federal law) inadmissible and expands the crimes for which a non-U. S.
Cosponsor · Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Cosponsor · Establishes in the Senate and the House of Representatives the Joint Select Committee on Reorganization and Reform of Foreign Assistance Agencies and Programs which shall investigate: (1) the organization of the various federal agencies and departments that oversee and implement U. S. foreign assistance programs; (2) U. S.
Cosponsor · National Law Enforcement Officers Remembrance, Support and Community Outreach Act. [ sic ] This bill temporarily directs the Department of the Interior to award a grant to the National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund for the expenses associated with operating and enhancing the community outreach, public education, and officer safety and wellness programs of the National Law Enforcement Museum.
Cosponsor · Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny Act of 20 25 This bill revises provisions relating to congressional review of agency rulemaking. Specifically, the bill establishes a congressional approval process for a major rule. A major rule may only take effect if Congress approves of the rule. A major rule is a rule that has resulted in or is likely to result in (1) an annual effect on the economy of $100 million or more; (2) a major increase in costs or prices for consumers, individual industries, government agencies, or geographic regions; or (3) significant adverse effects on competition, employment, investment, productivity, innovation, or the ability of U.
Cosponsor · Expresses support for the observance of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month to provide a special opportunity to offer education on the importance of early detection and screening.
Cosponsor · Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act This bill limits the adoption and enforcement of private land use restrictions (e. g. , rules of a homeowners' association) that prohibit, restrict, or impair the installation, maintenance, or operation of an amateur station antenna on property controlled by an amateur radio operator. Private land use restrictions are deemed to prohibit, restrict, or impair the installation, maintenance, or operation of an amateur station antenna if they unreasonably delay, prevent, or increase the cost or difficulty of such installation, maintenance, or operation; or if they prevent or degrade the reception or transmission of a signal acceptable to the operator.
Jan 3, 2025 – Jan 3, 2027 · Republican
Jan 3, 2023 – Jan 3, 2025 · Republican
Jan 3, 2021 – Jan 3, 2023 · Republican
Jan 3, 2019 – Jan 3, 2021 · Republican
Jan 3, 2017 – Jan 3, 2019 · Republican
Jan 6, 2015 – Jan 3, 2017 · Republican
Jan 3, 2013 – Jan 3, 2015 · Republican
Jan 5, 2011 – Jan 3, 2013 · Republican
Jan 6, 2009 – Jan 3, 2011 · Republican
Jan 4, 2007 – Jan 3, 2009 · Republican
Jan 4, 2005 – Jan 3, 2007 · Republican
Jan 7, 2003 – Jan 3, 2005 · Republican