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John Cornyn is a United States Senator from Texas, serving since January 3, 2002. A member of the Republican Party, he has held various leadership positions within the Senate, including serving as the Senate Minority Whip. Cornyn has focused on issues such as judicial appointments, immigration reform, and national security throughout his tenure. He is known for his strong support of conservative policies and has frequently aligned with the positions of former President Donald Trump.
I say to my friend from Florida that I think there has been a lot of false advertising and scaremongering taking place around the country in trying to convince people that, somehow, they are going to lose their coverage, which is not the…
I would welcome that any day and every day. The only way we get things done around here in any sort of durable fashion is on a bipartisan basis. But so far, I have seen zero indication from our friends across the aisle that they are…
I ask unanimous consent that at 6 p.m. today, there be 10 minutes of debate, equally divided in the usual form, remaining on H.J. Res. 69; further, that following the use or yielding back of that time, the resolution be read a third time…
I came to speak on the nomination of Neil Gorsuch as Associate Justice for the United States Supreme Court, but in listening to my colleague from Florida, I feel like I am missing something because he has described the Affordable Care Act…
The following Senators are necessarily absent: The Senator from Oklahoma (Mr. Inhofe) and the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cruz). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result…
The following Senator is necessarily absent: the Senator from Georgia (Mr. Isakson). The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Daines). Are there any other Senators in the Chamber desiring to vote? The result was announced--yeas 52, nays 47, as follows…
The judiciary may truly be said to have neither force nor will, but merely judgment.
the rules sometimes yield more nearly the opposite of their intended result, expensive and painfully slow litigation that itself is a form of injustice.
I was part of the Senate Judiciary Committee, a number of us were, when we voted to reaffirm the Voting Rights Act.
If our pronouncements of constitutional law rely primarily on value judgments, then a free and intelligent people's attitude toward us can be expected to be quite different.
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