SpaceX, BAE, General Dynamics, Lockheed, RTX, Boeing, Northrop, L3Harris, Leonardo DRS, Leidos and Cubic are all among the twenty PACs that have given Carter the most money. He chairs the Appropriations subcommittee that writes their construction budget.
PolitiFact confirmed back in 2018 that Carter's last real town hall was in 2013. His office said the Gabby Giffords shooting was one of 'the many reasons.' When constituents held their own in 2025, his office called them 'the far-left Indivisible group.'
H.R. 3237 paid for Capitol repairs and National Guard reimbursements after January 6, and ordered Capitol Police to wear body cameras. It passed 213-212. Carter's office confirmed he would have voted no — and a tie would have sunk it.
Paxton's 'Protecting the Texas Promise' agenda is a stack of new tax deductions. You have to itemize your taxes to claim the deductions — and only about 10% of taxpayers do. Even conservative economists say it will push prices up, not down.
On September 23, 2025, Goldman asked Fort Worth business leaders to contact his office more — 'So challenge us.' About two dozen constituents stood outside the same building because they'd tried repeatedly and gotten no response. At the event he said it wasn't clear to him what the demonstration was aimed at.
246 people died in Uri. Goldman chaired House Energy Resources in the session that followed. His committee advanced HB 1520 unanimously, which put $3.5 billion of gas companies' storm costs onto customers' bills through April 2039 — and a 2025 state audit found the gas weatherization rules produced 2 violations out of 8,732 inspections.
Goldman's first and only enacted law wiped out DOE standards for commercial refrigerators — permanently. DOE's own analysis: $1.32 to $3.43 billion in net savings for the businesses that buy them, against $117.7 million in manufacturer costs. His follow-up bill cancels up to $14,000 in appliance rebates for low-income households, sold with a number from the home builders' lobby.
Boeing, Lockheed, Honeywell, SpaceX, RTX and Blue Origin all fund the chairman of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. His own NASA bill writes statutory authority for a contract SpaceX already holds.
Peter Cloeren pleaded guilty in 1998 to routing $37,000 in corporate money to Babin's campaign through his own employees. Two FEC settlements followed: $6,700 in one, $20,000 plus a $5,000 disgorgement in the other. The paperwork is all still online.