Voting Resources
John Cornyn
June 6th, 2012
Today, I questioned Deputy Attorney General James Cole on possible coordinated, politically motivated leaks of classified information by the Obama Administration. In response to my questions, and just hours after Republicans...
May 18th, 2012
I issued the following statement after the House approved the Defense Authorization bill with a provision that mandates the Obama Administration sell at least 66 new F-16 C/D fighter aircraft to Taiwan:Today’s result is...
May 8th, 2012
Today, I issued this statement ahead of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Director Dan Ashe’s visit to Midland as the Administration considers whether or not to list the dunes sagebrush lizard as...
April 3rd, 2012
U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) released the following statement responding to today’s violent weather that hit North Texas:My thoughts and prayers are with those affected by today’s violent weather across North Texas....
March 22nd, 2012
Two years after passage of the President’s health care law, I have released a new video detailing a long list of broken promises that President Obama pledged his health care law would accomplish for the American people:
March 8th, 2012
Today U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) spoke on the Senate floor responding to reports that the President is personally lobbying Democrat Senators to vote against an amendment that would approve the Keystone pipeline’s...
February 3rd, 2012
I released this video following U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder’s hearing before the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee:Questions U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder Still Has Not Answered:
January 18th, 2012
U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, joined Sens. Grassley (R-IA), Hatch (R-UT), Sessions (R-AL), Coburn (R-OK), and Lee (R-UT) in sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry...
January 4th, 2012
I issued this statement today after the White House confirmed President Obama will recess appoint Richard Cordray to lead the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB).Today’s appointment of another unaccountable czar is...
June 3rd, 2012
U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) delivered the following weekly Republican address.
May 9th, 2012
I joined my colleagues in introducing legislation to remove barriers in the awarding of the Purple Heart to military victims of terrorist attacks that occur on U.S. soil, including the 2009 attack at Fort Hood:
April 25th, 2012
Today I spoke on the Senate floor on my Justice for Victims Amendment, co-sponsored by Sens. Kirk (R-IL), Vitter (R-LA) and Bennet (D-CO).
March 28th, 2012
Tuesday I offered remarks following the Supreme Court’s second day of arguments on the Affordable Care Act, which I attended. Additionally, I authored an op-ed for National Review Online on why ObamaCare must be overturned...
March 14th, 2012
When President Barack Obama first took office, he promised “an unprecedented level of openness.” Instead, we have seen an unprecedented level of obstruction regarding the Freedom of Information Act.Don’t take my word for it...
March 2nd, 2012
AUSTIN — Today U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) released the following statement commemorating the 176th Anniversary of Texas Independence Day:On this date in 1836, delegates representing settlements across Texas...
February 22nd, 2012
Today, I asked President Obama to reinstate a provision, passed unanimously last fall, that would prevent federal agencies from engaging in the practice of "gun-walking."President Barack H. Obama The White House 1600...
January 18th, 2012
U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement amidst reports that the State Department will be denying a permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline this afternoon:The President has said he wakes up...
January 9th, 2012
Today, I issued this statement following a report that the national debt is now larger than our entire economy:This dismal benchmark underscores the President’s aversion to making tough fiscal choices in an election year....
December 19th, 2011
The following op-ed, authored by Senator Cornyn, ran in the Sunday edition of the Austin American-Statesman.Speaking Tuesday at the LBJ Presidential Library, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder criticized state voter-...
