John Cornyn
John Cornyn
John Cornyn IIIis the senior United States Senator from Texas, serving since 2002. He is a member of the Republican Party and the current Senate Majority Whip for the 114th Congress. Cornyn previously served as Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee from 2007 to 2011...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 February 1952
CountryUnited States of America
law roving nominations
A Supreme Court nomination and appointment is not a roving commission to rewrite our laws.
records may today
One of the dangers of being here [the Senate] a while is you may have been on record directly and diametrically opposed to what one is saying today.
children men turtles
Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife
home underwater unemployment
And if you like 14.4 percent unemployment, if you like the fact that 70 percent of home mortgages in Nevada are underwater, then stay the course. Vote for Harry Reid
squares people belief
I'm speaking of the ability of people of faith to freely express their beliefs in the public square.
rain
When it rains, it pours - figuratively and literally
thinking needs constituents
Senators will do what they think they need to do to represent their constituents
focus support immigration
I don't support an amnesty.(Cornyn) demands an ongoing focus on security and workplace enforcement before considering steps to grant legal status, let alone citizenship.
country father views
There is no doubt where the founding fathers stood on this issue. They believed that people of faith should be permitted to express themselves in public. They believed that this country was big enough and free enough to allow expression of on enormous variety of views and beliefs.
believe long immigration
I do not believe the border is secure and I still believe we have a long, long way to go.
obamacare use requirements
The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional.
running justice political
Justices are not politicians. They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.
jobs thinking track
I think we ought to talk about what the American people want, and that is jobs and get the economy on track.
average years reform
Unfortunately, the (budget) does not . . . help Congress reform such programs as Medicaid and Medicare, which both grow at average rate of around 8 percent each year through 2015 and will continue to eat up more of the total federal budget.