John Cornyn

I have visited with Senator Kaine down in Honduras recently.

I believe that this Trade Promotion Authority proposal that we will mark up tomorrow represents real progress.

If there is no further business to come before the Senate, I ask unanimous consent that it stand adjourned under the previous order. There being no objection, the Senate, at 10:11 p.m., adjourned until Wednesday, April 15, 2015, at 9:30…

Since I came to the Senate I have been very engaged with my friend, Senator Leahy, the Ranking Member, on freedom of information reform.

That ought to cause us a lot of concern.

Congratulations on your nomination.

I hope, if the Senate gets unstuck on human trafficking legislation that we are on--and I'm optimistic that we will eventually--we'll be able to provide additional resources to law enforcement, as well as the victims, to help them heal and…

I would say to my friend I appreciate her courtesy and her indulgence in having this conversation. I also feel on principle this limitation on tax dollars is an appropriate one. I understand the Senator disagrees and she would like to…

I would say to my friend, I don't blame her for asking, but why in the world would we change settled law for 39 years in order to accommodate the minority's view on this bill, and to change, as I said, what has been the law of the land…

I would just say, in conclusion, that I think it is a terrible shame that my colleague's side of the aisle has decided to take this bill hostage to try to litigate something that has been the law of the land for 39 years. I understand she…

I am not going to engage in a debate about whether the Senator should have known or how she voted in the past. I believe the record would demonstrate that she and others voted for the Affordable Care Act, which actually National Abortion…

Otherwise, we are going to have to keep addressing questions through the Chair and keep asking for permission. I think it is great to have an honest conversation with my friend. So it is clear that the Senator from California has voted for…

I was in my office and watching the Senator on TV, so I thought I would come to the floor and maybe we could get to the bottom of this. There seems to be a ship passing in the night, it seems to me. I know the Senator from California cares…

I still remember that Senator Schumer from New York, after the election, gave a speech at the National Press Club.

The Affordable Care Act is damaging for economic growth, and it was enacted at a time when we had very poor growth in the United States to begin with.

I am hopeful that we will be able to repeal that either in conjunction with congressional response to King v. Burwell or in some other context.

It has made things worse, not better.

I have to tell you that the studies I have seen on outcomes for Medicaid are really no better.

Unfortunately, I think people are becoming desensitized to the rhetoric upon which Obamacare was sold to the American people.

It strikes me as fundamentally wrong that the States have to ask the Federal Government how they can spend their money.

Thank you. I was struck--and this was something Mr. Sauer said about the post-grant review process, but a case in particular where a hedge fund shorted that company's stock before filing a claim.

Well, that remains a work in progress here on this Committee and we are working closely with the Chairman and the Ranking Member and Senator Schumer, in particular, but really all Members of the Committee, to try to address that.

I personally am of the view that unless we have an adequate fee-shifting mechanism in the legislation, it is not worth doing.

We need to recognize there are certainly legitimate rights that should be litigated and decided in court, but on the other hand, there is also legal extortion.

America would be a better place, a more productive place if we were able to continue to attract the best and brightest minds from around the world.