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
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on the side of justice and individual liberties.
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Part of it is to reassure those who don't know her that she's the real deal.
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He did commiserate with me a little bit, ... I hope that he will be able to give the United States Supreme Court's ruling some coherence, because frankly they are way out of step with what the founding fathers intended.
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We can do this, ... Fox News Sunday.
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Some people are going to be surprised in what they find.
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Texas voluntarily accepted and placed students from states damaged by Hurricane Katrina, meeting an enormous challenge. And now the federal government is beginning to live up to its end of the bargain.
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My own guess is that people wonder why we are playing those kind of games, ... They are frustrated with Congress and politicians enough anyway and see that as another example of why they are frustrated.
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It has to do with our suspicion and skepticism of government power being able to take private property.
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I think (a border fence) is futile because I don't think you can build a wall high enough or wide enough to keep people out of the country who have no hope or opportunity where they live,
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I just think it was a blind spot in the process of BRAC, but now maybe these developments, showing how in response to disaster, a natural disaster like Rita and Katrina, that it has an important role to play. Maybe this will help us make our case.
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clears the way for a more efficient and lower-cost delivery of this next-generation military aircraft.
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chose not the cut-and- run option but the stay-and-fight option -- and to win -- and then to bring our troops home as soon as possible.
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By the time the process is over, she will have been ... poked and prodded enough to satisfy even the most skeptical mind.
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But I do think it's unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America.