John Cornyn

Liberating is how he described his negotiating power.

It’s nice to have some cards to play.

We just don’t have the votes.

I don’t know who it was that sold the president on this idea that this was attainable, but it’s creating a circular firing squad for Republicans.

Hardworking Texans and small businesses are too often bogged down by financial stress, bureaucratic hurdles, or the repercussions of honest mistakes when trying to navigate the tax code in good faith.

We are going to use the committee vote tomorrow as a way to … get the money distributed the way Congress appropriated it.

The only way it seems like you can get the administration’s attention on some of these funding issues is by using the leverage to withhold votes on nominees.

“Both would be good, but that passing a law would be more difficult,” Cornyn said.

“The agreement says it can’t be changed, but except by, you know, the parties, so that would have to be in writing,” Cornyn said.

“It’s not good enough,” Cornyn told HuffPost on Tuesday.

Well, does he want to get confirmed or not?

Those are the issues we’re continuing to discuss with the administration to see whether we can get a modification of the settlement agreement.

Senator Graham was unyielding in his support for the Ukrainian people as they fight to defend their sovereignty.

Congress must do more to protect innocent Americans who are being defrauded left and right while crooks and illegal migrants profit.

It’s kind of a mess.

He’s putting the best spin on it he can, but I can read and so can you, and I think his interpretation is not necessarily the only one.

We needed to set the record straight there because I think some people are under the impression that just because he says, ‘Well, we’re not going to pursue the weaponization fund,’ that it couldn’t be revived at a later time.

I’m gonna wait until we actually vote on the confirmation in a week or so.

I continue to have some concerns, but I’m not going to make any decisions at this point.

Well he basically confirmed that it’s not dead.

I think he's trying to walk a very difficult line.

Well, I don't know what other information's gonna be coming in. The hearing is not even halfway done. And so, you know, I don't have to make a decision now, so I'm not.

Americans have paid into Social Security with the expectation that the benefits they earned would provide the foundation for their retirement, and Congress has a responsibility to keep that promise.

I think we just ought to resolve all those questions by seeing what the toxicology reports show.

We, you know, I saw the initial diagnosis of a dissected aorta — which is terrible, I mean, obviously, that could cause his death — but given where he was and the sorts of things he was advocating for, I think we just ought to resolve all…