Cornyn Chairs Biden Border Betrayal Hearing, Calls for ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Facility in Texas
News July 22, 2025 The State of Florida has stepped up to the plate recently, helping the administration to open a detention facility that’s come to be known as Alligator Alcatraz. If we could find a way to make something like [Alligator Alcatraz] work in Texas, I would strongly support it. We’re here today to […]
Cornyn Throws Down the Gauntlet on Outbound Investment to Counter China
News July 21, 2025 U.S. companies are spending billions of dollars in China, investing in Chinese companies, particularly those involved in critical technologies like quantum computing and Artificial Intelligence. I’ve been raising alarm bells for a number of years now and working toward a solution to this critical, strategic concern… I’m not going to give […]
Cornyn Cosponsors Bill to Label Muslim Brotherhood a Foreign Terrorist Organization
News July 21, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) cosponsored the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act, which would direct the U.S. Secretary of State to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group: “Hamas – who is responsible for the mass murder of more than 1,200 civilians in the brutal attack against Israel […]
Cornyn Statement on Senate Passage of Trump Rescissions Package
News Will Codify DOGE Cuts to Rein in Waste, Fraud, and Abuse July 17, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), founding member of the Senate DOGE Caucus, released the following statement after the Senate passed President Trump’s rescissions package, which will codify the Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) cuts to rein in frivolous spending […]
Cornyn-Supported HALT Fentanyl Act Signed into Law
News July 16, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after President Trump signed the Halt All Lethal Trafficking of (HALT) Fentanyl Act, which will help keep this deadly drug off of Texas’ streets by permanently classifying fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I, into law: “This legislation is essential to stopping […]
Cornyn-Supported Annual Intelligence Bill Passes Committee
News July 16, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today released the following statement after the Intelligence Authorization Act (IAA) for Fiscal Year 2026 passed out of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: “The U.S. Intelligence Community and congressional intelligence committees play vital roles in keeping Texans safe and secure in an increasingly […]
Cornyn, Kelly Introduce Bill to Enhance U.S.-Mexico Counternarcotics Efforts
News July 10, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) today introduced the Counternarcotics Enhancement Act, which would direct the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to submit to Congress an action plan to enhance counternarcotics collaboration, coordination, and cooperation between the U.S. and Mexico: “One innocent life lost because of […]
Cornyn, Lankford, Rounds Introduce SPIES Act to Deter Foreign Espionage
News July 10, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), James Lankford (R-OK), and Mike Rounds (R-SD) introduced the Strengthening Prosecution Integrity for Espionage Statutes (SPIES) Act, which would help hold foreign spies who commit espionage crimes against the United States accountable by removing the statute of limitations for certain offenses such as gathering […]
Cornyn, Senate GOP Colleagues Introduce Resolution Supporting Operation Midnight Hammer
News Senators Say President Trump Worthy of Nobel Peace Prize June 26, 2025 WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) led Senators Roger Wicker (R-MS), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Mike Crapo (R-ID), Markwayne Mullin (R-OK), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Katie Britt (R-AL), Dave McCormick (R-PA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Rick Scott (R-FL), Jim Justice (R-WV), Kevin Cramer […]
Cornyn Introduces Bill to Combat Foreign Adversaries’ Ownership of Texas Farmland
News June 10, 2025 U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), along with Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE), introduced the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure (AFIDA) Improvements Act, which would codify legislative oversight recommendations to update the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act and equip the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to combat foreign adversaries’ ownership of American agricultural land: […]
Cornyn, Blumenthal, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Aid Recovery of Nazi-Confiscated Art
News AUSTIN – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), John Fetterman (D-PA), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), and Katie Britt (R-AL) introduced the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, which would aid in the recovery of Nazi-looted art and deliver justice for Holocaust survivors and their […]
VIDEO: On Newsmax, Cornyn Condemns Antisemitism, Discusses Murder of Israeli Embassy Staff
News Antisemitism is on the rise and needs to be condemned. We have a new sheriff in town. We have a new Attorney General, a new FBI Director that can aggressively do investigations and prosecute individuals who violate the rights of our Jewish citizens. That will go a long way to correcting the direction that […]
Cornyn to Putin: Pres. Trump, America Cannot Be Coerced
News There is one significant obstacle in achieving a lasting end to this conflict, and that of course is Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin is making a grave mistake in stringing the President of the United States and the rest of the world along while innocent lives are being taken. Putin may well have been able […]
Cornyn, Baldwin, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Safeguard Transit Operations Against Chinese Influence
News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Rick Scott (R-FL), Tina Smith (D-MN), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Gary Peters (D-MI) today introduced the Safeguarding Transit Operations to Prohibit (STOP) China Act, which would protect domestic transit operations and supply chains from malign Chinese influence by preventing any appropriated […]
Cornyn Calls for Release of Texan David Barnes from Russia
News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today called for the release of Texan David Barnes, who has been wrongfully detained in Russia for more than four years, following recently-freed Russian prisoner Ksenia Karelina’s letter to President Donald J. Trump urging the safe return of Barnes and two other Americans being held by Russia: “David […]