John Cornyn

I agree 100 percent with what Senator Durbin said about we are all a product of our background and upbringing.

I like the way you said 'Great State of Texas.' We agree.

I was proud to support Robert for U.S. Attorney, and I am proud to support him for the nomination at the Federal bench.

I want to congratulate each of those nominees and their families for this great honor.

The fact is, we are dysfunctional. But if the Senator has a suggestion for how we get out of this dysfunction, I would love to hear it.

The unanimous consent would be the Senator from Oregon, the Senator from Kansas, the Senator from Texas, and the Senator from Vermont.

Before I begin my prepared remarks today I want to offer my sympathy to the community of Spring, TX. Last night in this quiet suburban area north of Houston they experienced the horrific murders of six people. It is reported that four of…

I would ask the junior Senator from Texas, surely the President understands the facts as we have laid them out here, the problems with the 2008 law, really, the flaw in that law. They have created a business model out of it because they…

If I may, the junior Senator from Texas had visited Lackland Air Force Base recently and observed some of these 1,200--if I am not mistaken--children who are being essentially warehoused because we do not have any other place to put them…

I say to the distinguished Senator through the Chair that I don't know who introduced the bill, but I do know who signed it into law, and that was President George W. Bush.

I will yield in a moment. That has to be embarrassing. It shows a lack of confidence in the President's commitment to enforce the rule of law. I think it is a problem. I think the President can help mitigate that problem and help restore…

I would say that the statement that support for the Voting Rights Act has been bipartisan is absolutely true.

This bill imposes a presumption of guilt, and the jurisdiction affected would have to come into court and disprove this presumption.

We will actually take a moment to celebrate the great advances that have been made in this country, not to suggest, as Dr. Johnson said, that discrimination does not still exist.

An act repugnant to the Constitution is void.

The suggestion made in this legislation is we need to presume that four States that would be covered by the formula are guilty until they can prove their innocence.

I believe you said that this legislation is not designed just to overturn legislatively the Shelby County decision; it goes much farther.

It is tough to make predictions, especially about the future.

I know we perhaps have another Member coming to speak. Would the Chair please advise me after I have used 5 minutes of that 8 minutes? The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. The Chair will do that.

I look forward to learning more about the Mayor's views on the future role of Freddie and Fannie.

I am encouraged that he would employ the same energetic vision that has characterized his tenure leading Texas' second largest city.

I know many Texans are reassured by Mayor Castro's example that the American dream is still very much alive.

The American people need leaders who will hold folks accountable and restore transparency to Government.

I will. Mr. McCAIN. I apologize if I am being redundant here, but how does the Senator from Texas explain to the American people how we have gone from, in 2011, when we start this chart, from 6,000, to now the projection, 3 years later, of…

I do not understand the argument that if we just somehow pass the Senate immigration bill that it would have a positive impact on this humanitarian crisis