John R. Carter
Republican · TX-31 · U.S. House
Bio
John Rice Carter is an American politician serving as a U.S. representative representing Texas's 31st congressional district since 2003. The district includes the northern suburbs of Austin, as well as Fort Hood. He is a Republican. If elected for another term, Carter is set to become the dean of Texas's congressional delegation when Representative Lloyd Doggett and Senator John Cornyn leave office in 2027.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 23.6 years
- First took office
- 2003 (12 terms)
- Seniority
- 38 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 84
- Belton, TX · 254-933-1392
- Georgetown, TX · 512-591-9061
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $1.5M – $6.0M
- Liabilities
- $150k – $350k
- Net worth
- $1.1M – $5.8M
- Since 2019
- +$642k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 5 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
John R. Carter's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
John R. Carter (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Cartersits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Carter's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
- HydroGraph Hosts Congressman John Carter to Celebrate New Texas Headquarters, Showcases America’s Emerging Domestic Supply of Ultra-Pure Graphene
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Financial Post · August 11, 2026 
'It's a problem': GOP struggling to rein in elderly lawmakers who won't step asideWhile Democrats grapple with a generational push to oust elderly lawmakers, Republicans are confronting their own severe aging problem — with the party led by a 79-year-old president and dominated by lawmakers in their 70s and 80s who show no signs of steppin…
Raw Story · May 26, 2026
Anti-LGBTQ+ Republican claims voting was rigged after losing primary by landslideAnti-LGBTQ+ Republican Valentina Gomez, who previously filmed an offensive “weak and gay” ad, claims voting was rigged after another landslide primary loss. Gomez lost her congressional race in Texas to Republican representative John Carter, who is 84. Carte…
Thepinknews.com · March 5, 2026
The “ShamWow guy” is running for Congress in Texas with a goal to destroy wokismThe man behind one of the 2000s’s most recognizable infomercials stepped into Texas politics last week. Offer Vince Shlomi, known commonly as the ShamWow guy, filed paperwork to run for Congress as a Republican, according to state election records. His campai…
The Daily Dot · November 28, 2025
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