Cornyn Praises Senate Passage of CHIPS Funding
News This funding will help kick start domestic production of these semiconductors in a way that will prevent a vulnerability of our supply chain since 90 percent of those advanced semiconductors currently come from Asia. The way we are going to compete with China and beat them is to out-innovate them, because no country in […]
Cornyn Blasts Manchin’s New Build Back Broke Bill
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook Raising taxes on job creators, crushing energy producers with new regulations, and stifling innovators looking for new cures will only make this recession worse, not better. WASHINGTON –U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement in response to reports that Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) had […]
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, Cruz, Weber Bill to Ensure Coastal Barrier Protection for Texas Gulf
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook Authorizes Construction of Coastal Spine Project for Texas, Crucial for Future Hurricane Mitigation WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ted Cruz (R-TX), and U.S. Representative Randy Weber (TX-14) today released the following statements after introducing the Texas Coastal Spine Authorization Act which authorizes the construction of […]
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, Colleagues Call on Russia to Release Brittney Griner from Wrongful Detention
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook Bipartisan Senate Resolution Urges U.S. Government to Press for WNBA Player’s Release, Supports All Prisoners Unjustly Imprisoned in the Russian Federation WASHINGTON –U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today led a bipartisan Senate resolution with Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) calling on the Russian government to immediately release […]
Cornyn: Biden Admin Doesn’t Care About Migrants or Border Communities
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook The Biden Administration, including the President, the Vice President, and everyone who serves in the Biden Administration, simply does not care. They don’t care about the migrants who die en route to the United States. They don’t care about our border communities that are overrun […]
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 Presses Biden on PGA Investigation, Administration Contact with Saudis
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook I am concerned about whether members of the Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, or any other member of your administration, was involved in the investigation recently being made public. I also have questions about whether your administration had any contact with the Saudi Arabian government […]
Cornyn Previews Texas Border Trip with Cruz, GOP Colleagues
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook Later this week, I will be traveling back home to the Rio Grande Valley along with a number of my Republican colleagues so that they too can learn from the true experts about the border crisis. Migrants are dying, drugs are pouring into our country, […]
Cornyn Grills Abortion-on-Demand Advocate on the Value of Unborn Life
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook Sen. Cornyn: ‘Do you think that a baby that is not yet born – let’s say, the day before this mother delivers – do you think that baby has value?’ Prof. Bridges: ‘I think that the person with the capacity for pregnancy has value, […]
Cornyn: Dems Again Push Tax Break for Manhattan Millionaires
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook With voter confidence at a concerning low, our Democratic colleagues have made an interesting calculation. They’re trying to resurrect their Build Back Broke agenda. Working families in Texas should not be forced to subsidize the tax bill for Manhattan millionaires. It isn’t time to hand […]
Cornyn: Schumer Jeopardizing Bipartisan Semiconductor Funding for Doomed Spending Spree
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook Earlier this summer, a conference committee was appointed and began negotiating a compromise bill that would finally fund the CHIPS Act and make other critical investments in our national security and competitiveness. But with the CHIPS funding on the five-yard line, the Majority Leader, the […]