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 […]
VIDEO: Senate Passes Cornyn’s Mental Health and School Safety Bill One Month After Uvalde
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook For too long some politicians have tried to pit the right to live in a safe community against the constitutional right to keep and bear arms… This is a false choice. Law-abiding gun owners are not the problem. No parent should ever fear for the […]
VIDEO: On Fox, Cornyn Discusses the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook No parent wants to send their child to school fearful for their safety. This bill… does not infringe on the rights of law-abiding gun owners. They’re not the problem. I think we’ve threaded the needle in a way that protects the right of law-abiding citizens, […]
Cornyn’s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act Endorsed by Key Groups, Editorial Boards
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook The bill preserves gun rights while trying to keep guns away from the dangerous. That’s a step forward. – WSJ Editorial Board WASHINGTON – A coalition of leading law enforcement, mental health, domestic violence, and education groups have endorsed Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)’s Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, […]
Cornyn, Bipartisan Group of Senators Announce Bipartisan Safer Communities Act
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook WASHINGTON – Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Chris Murphy (D-CT), Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) released the following statement: “Today, we finalized bipartisan, commonsense legislation to protect America’s children, keep our schools safe, and reduce the threat of violence across our country. Our legislation […]
Cornyn Details Due Process Protections in Mental Health, School Safety Bill
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook Unless a person is convicted of a crime or is adjudicated mentally ill, their ability to purchase a firearm will not be impacted by this legislation. What we’re trying do is prevent dangerous individuals from unleashing violence on their communities, and one way of achieving […]
Cornyn Gives Update on Key Issues in School Safety, Mental Health Negotiations
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook We’ve run into a couple of bumps in the road that have slowed things down a little bit. The details of these provisions are critical for support from my colleagues on this side of the aisle, and I hope our colleagues across the aisle will […]
Cornyn: ‘No National “Red Flag” Law’
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook None of what we are proposing would create a national “red flag law. The existence or lack of a “red flag” law should not impact any state’s ability to receive funds for crisis intervention. And if a state does want to use this money to […]
VIDEO: On Fox, Cornyn Pitches Mental Health, School Safety Framework
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook The goal is to keep guns out of the hands of people with criminal backgrounds and people with mental health problems, which is the current law. WASHINGTON – Today on Fox News’ Fox & Friends, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) discussed provisions of the recently announced framework for potential […]
VIDEO: Cornyn Discusses Framework for Negotiations on Mental Health, School Safety
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook Over the weekend, there was an agreement reached between 20 senators, ten Republicans and ten Democrats, on a framework or principles for bipartisan legislation to keep our kids and our communities safe. 16 states have red flag laws… It’s absolutely critical that each and every […]