John Cornyn

The amounts of money that are essentially stolen from the American people are astronomical.

If you raise taxes enough and if you cut Medicare enough, you might be able to claim, through phony bookkeeping, that somehow this cuts the deficit. The administration's own actuaries have concluded this law will raise health care costs…

This amendment would ensure that health care reform costs are lowered by this piece of legislation. If independent actuaries for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services cannot certify that this health care reform legislation lowers…

That is particularly true of the promise the President has apparently made to union leadership to defer the application of a Cadillac tax--the excise tax on Cadillac health insurance plans. That promise, as the promise to televise the…

The Coast Guard is an agency that has always been asked to do more with less, and we simply cannot continue to expect the same high level of service without sufficient funding.

President Obama chose in his Fiscal Year 2011 budget to impose a freeze on non-military discretionary spending.

I guess what I would call it, is Nancy Pelosi is trying to come up with an immaculate conception.

I guess what I would call it is Nancy Pelosi is trying to come up with an Immaculate Conception.

The solution for this is not less speech but, I think, more speech to get everyone's voices and views out into the public square.

I think that both sides of this debate have good intentions, and I wish there was a way we could limit the impact of unlimited money affecting elections.

I think now what we need more than anything else is greater transparency and accountability.

I think if there are two things that are causing the lack of approval of the American people of Congress these days it boils down to two things. One is a lack of fiscal discipline, and the second is a complete lack of credibility…

I feel compelled to attend this hearing because I think that the Department's decision in this matter should once and for all put to rest any notion that Jay Bybee, John Yoo, and their associates deserve anything other than the thanks of a…

And then we find out there are other sweetheart deals which make this thing begin to stink to high heaven.

I hope we will try again to address comprehensive immigration reform.

I think what concerns me the most is that actually I think the decision was not fully vetted and thought out in terms of what the potential consequences would be.

I believe the Supreme Court has held that you cannot indefinitely detain somebody under the Zadvydas case.

And you said that if Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is acquitted, he will not be released. What if a Federal judge orders the Department of Justice to release him? Will you defy that order?

You recognize the Supreme Court has said you cannot hold somebody indefinitely, for example, who cannot be repatriated to their home country.

Well, in terms of local security arrangements, I mean, this case might be tried in Connecticut or Vermont or some other part of the Second Circuit.

Your decision to try some of these 9/11 co-conspirators in an Article III court is not compelled by any law. It was a matter of your judgment and discretion.

A government-run single-payer system... would drive insurers out of the market and limit competition.

I have to confess, though, that the bad guys outnumber the good guys, and I agree with Attorney General Holder that the lack of resources is a real problem.

I would like to express my appreciation to the witnesses for being here today, and thank you for serving your country in your capacities that you are holding now.

We need more good guys on the field investigating and prosecuting these claims because, frankly, the Federal Government and the State government is outnumbered