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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.
If he will be quiet for a minute, I will tell him what I am for, if he will quit interrupting. So what this is is an attempt--is purely a power grab here in Washington masked as a feel-good environmental policy, mixing ideas like Medicare…
Mr. President, I notice one thing: When people around here--colleagues across the aisle--don't like what they are hearing, they try to suppress or drown out dissenting voices. I think the American people need to hear this debate because…
Mr. President, I will say to my friend from New York that I know what their talking points are now, but I don't believe what we ought to do about the environment is impose a travesty like the Green New Deal. This is a government power…
Mr. President, I am not for socialism. I am not for Washington, DC, thinking they know better than what my constituents know about.
Mr. President, regular order. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Iowa has yielded the floor to Senator Cornyn.
Mr. President, I will-- The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Texas has the floor.
Mr. President, there is a great book called ``SuperFreakonomics'' written by some Chicago economists who talk about the threat to the environment of horse manure back when we had horse- drawn buggies in our cities because the internal…
Mr. President, last week, I spoke on the Senate floor about the perils of socialism. I never thought in my entire life that I would have to do something like that, but given the rise of democratic socialists, which obviously is a…
Madam President, I want to start my remarks this afternoon by saying congratulations to our friend Senator Richard Shelby, Alabama's longest serving U.S. Senator as of this Sunday. Here in Washington, we know him as chairman of the…
Mr. President, despite what you hear inside the beltway, the challenges along our southwest border are real, and the people of Texas feel that impact every day along the 1,200-mile common border we have with Mexico. Last week, for example…
Madam President, as strange as it seems, socialism is having a bit of a resurgence here in the Nation's Capital these days. Why, you might ask, has this failed economic theory that is so destructive of individual freedom captured the…
Mr. President, I have 7 requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the…
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