John Cornyn: “this legislation that Senator Durbin and others are proposing is so-called the Women's Health Protection Act.”

only in authoritarian countries does someone else get to decide where you work. Not in Texas.

I don’t know whether they think they can wait us out or … we’ll cave. But I assure you, we won’t.

the ball is in Blanche’s court.

I think I am prepared to vote no, but I do think I owe it to my constituents and to Mr. Blanche to try to negotiate in good faith.