PHOTO: Cornyn Meets with Mother of Fentanyl Poisoning Victim and Officials from Hays County
News AUSTIN – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) met today with Shannon McConville of Hays County who tragically lost her 17-year-old son, Kevin McConville, in August from fentanyl poisoning just a few weeks before the start of his senior year at Lehman High School. They were joined in the meeting by Kyle Police Chief Jeff […]
Cornyn, GOP Demand Answers from FBI on Raid of Pro-Life Activist
News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), along with a group of his fellow Republican Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter demanding answers from the Department of Justice and FBI for the aggressive dawn raid on the home of a pro-life advocate, Mark Houck, in Pennsylvania last week. More than two dozen […]
Cornyn Calls on House to Quickly Take Up His Senate-Passed Bills
News Despite the gridlock that occasionally grips this Chamber, the Senate has managed to advance some great bipartisan bills since the beginning of this Congress. I hope the House will take up and pass these bills without further delay. I hope there isn’t a resistance to these bills because some of this money goes to […]
Cornyn, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan Bill Inspired by Nassar Survivors to Improve FBI Child Victim Protocols
News WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Chris Coons (D-DE), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the Respect for Child Survivors Act, which would improve the treatment of FBI child victim witnesses by requiring trauma-informed experts to be a part of any interview of a victim who reports child abuse or trafficking to the […]
Cornyn, 32 Senate Republicans Call for Hunter Biden Prosecutor to be Given Special Counsel Authority
News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), along with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and more than 30 other colleagues, today sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland demanding that U.S. Attorney David Weiss be extended special counsel protections and authorities to conduct the investigation into Hunter Biden: “There is no way […]
Cornyn, Colleagues Introduce Reauthorization of Project Safe Neighborhoods Program to Reduce Violent Crime
News WASHINGTON– Today, U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Gary Peters (D-MI), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) introduced the Project Safe Neighborhoods Grant Program Authorization Act of 2022 to reauthorize a nationwide law enforcement program focusing on the reduction of violent crime. “The Project Safe Neighborhoods program […]
Cornyn Statement on AG Garland and Justice Department’s Incriminating Silence
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook The longer the Attorney General remains silent, the more this looks like a brazen abuse of power to target a political rival. WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) issued the following statement in response to Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Biden Administration’s continued silence […]
Cornyn Bill to Prevent Child Abuse Inspired by Texan Jenna Quinn Passes Senate
News Jenna Quinn Law Inspired By Child Abuse Survivor WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) issued the following statement after the Senate passed his Jenna Quinn Law, which would allow grant funds to be used to train and educate students, teachers, caregivers, and other adults who work with children in a professional or volunteer […]
Cornyn Bill to Help Solve Cold Cases Signed Into Law
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook New Law Inspired by Austin Yogurt Shop Murders WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after President Biden signed the Homicide Victims’ Families’ Rights Act, which requires federal agencies to revisit cold case murder files and apply new technologies in search of potential […]
Cornyn, Texas Colleagues Press Biden to Halt Closure of South Texas Private Detention Centers
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook The Executive Order has created numerous unintended consequences, which primarily have affected the constitutional rights and physical safety of pretrial detainees. WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) and U.S. Representatives Henry Cuellar (TX-28), Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15), and Sheila Jackson […]
Cornyn, Cotton, Grassley Bill to Help Solve Cold Cases Heads to President’s Desk
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Tom Cotton (R-AR), and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released the following statements after the Homicide Victims’ Families’ Rights Act, which requires federal agencies to revisit cold case murder files and apply new technologies in search of potential breakthroughs, passed […]
Cornyn: Focus Only on Weapons in Shootings Misses Potential Solutions
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook As horrific as these incidents are, one of the abject lessons, I think, of what happened in Highland Park is the strictest gun laws in the nation did not prevent this terrible act. If we focus just on the instrumentality, on the tool, on the […]
VIDEO: On Fox, Cornyn Slams Biden Admin for Ignoring Drug Trafficking at Southern Border
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook Probably a year ago, I introduced a bill… thinking that if things got too bad, the Biden Administration might reach out, take a lifeline, and begin that conversation. Unfortunately, it’s been nothing but crickets, and we have seen three million border encounters since the Biden […]
Cornyn: Biden Doesn’t Care About Southern Border, Migrants Dying
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook Make no mistake about it: what is happening at the border is a result of a policy failure of the Biden Administration. They apparently don’t care about the young women and girls who are sexually assaulted en route. They apparently don’t care about the migrants […]
Cornyn’s Mental Health and School Safety Bill Signed Into Law
News This bill includes important targeted reforms, complete with robust due process protections that I believe will keep our children and our communities safe while respecting Second Amendment rights. Will it save lives? I believe the answer to that is yes, and that makes this worth doing. Unless a person is adjudicated mentally ill or […]