Cornyn, Blumenthal, Colleagues’ Bill to Aid Recovery of Nazi-Confiscated Art Passes Senate
News December 11, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), John Fetterman (D-PA), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), and Katie Britt (R-AL) released the following statements after their Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, which would aid in the recovery of Nazi-looted art and […]
Cornyn, Klobuchar Bill to Permanently Extend Criminal Penalties for Human Traffickers Passes Senate
News December 11, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) released the following statements after their Enduring Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act, which would correct a technical error in existing statute and permanently extend a criminal penalty requiring certain offenders found guilty of human trafficking and abuse to pay […]
Cornyn, Shaheen Bill to Counter Foreign Cyber Scams Passes Senate
News December 9, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) released the following statements after their Scam Compound Accountability and Mobilization (SCAM) Act, which would counter foreign cyber scams and hold transnational criminal organizations accountable for human trafficking, forced criminality, and cyber-enabled fraud schemes targeting Americans, passed the Senate: “Transnational […]
Cornyn, Colleagues Urge Review of Biden Administration’s Failed Vetting Process for Afghan Parolees
News December 8, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), along with his Senate Select Committee on Intelligence colleagues led by Chairman Tom Cotton (R-AR), sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Advisor Marco Rubio, urging a review of the Biden administration’s failed vetting process for Afghan nationals through Biden-era […]
Cornyn, Senate GOP Introduce Back the Blue Act
News December 4, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and 35 of his Senate Republican colleagues today introduced the Back the Blue Act, which would increase penalties for criminals who target law enforcement officers and provide new tools for officers to protect themselves: “Our law enforcement officers bravely risk their lives daily to […]
Cornyn Blasts Biden Parole Programs for Letting Terrorists into U.S., Commends Trump for Freezing Afghan Asylum, Visa Applications
News December 3, 2025 [Lakanwal] was not admitted to the United States as a result of any legislation…It was solely done by the Biden administration. We simply cannot ignore the importance of thoroughly vetting for each and every person who enters our country to make sure we’re keeping out radicals who may want to harm […]
Cornyn Praises Law Enforcement for Arresting, Charging Afghan Citizen Living in Texas Who Threatened to Build Bomb, Kill Americans
News December 2, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today released the following statement praising the U.S. Department of Justice and federal and state law enforcement for arresting and charging Mohammad Dawood Alokozay, a citizen of Afghanistan residing in Fort Worth, Texas, for threatening to build a bomb, conduct a suicide attack, and […]
Cornyn Honors Heroism of Attacked National Guardsmen, Slams ‘Notorious’ Biden Afghan Parole Program
News December 1, 2025 The perpetrator was an Afghan parolee… who entered the country under the Biden administration’s Operation Allies Welcome program, which was notorious for insufficient vetting of Afghan refugees. Our prayers continue to go out to the family of Sarah Beckstrom, an American hero, who gave and made the ultimate sacrifice for her […]
Cornyn, Coons, Colleagues’ Bill to Protect State and Local Judges Passes Senate
News November 21, 2025 AUSTIN – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Chris Coons (D-DE), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) released the following statements after their Countering Threats and Attacks on Our Judges Act, which would establish a State Judicial Threat Intelligence and Resource Center to provide technical assistance, training, and […]
Cornyn, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Exempt Trafficking Survivors’ Restitution from Federal Taxes
News November 20, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Ron Wyden (D-OR), James Lankford (R-OK) and Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and U.S. Representatives Jodey Arrington (TX-19) and Brad Schneider (IL-10) today introduced the Human Trafficking Survivor Tax Relief Act, which would exempt civil damages, restitution, and other monetary awards given to human trafficking survivors […]
Cornyn Chairs Hearing on the Radical Left’s Crusade Against Immigration Enforcement
News November 19, 2025 Ever since President Trump was sworn into office and began prioritizing immigration enforcement, assaults and attacks on immigration agents and officers have skyrocketed. Some of our Democratic colleagues have used incendiary rhetoric to fan the flames of public protests…the result has been widespread assaults on our law enforcement officers. Why is […]
Cornyn Exposes Expanded Obamacare Subsidies Fraud Scheme
News November 19, 2025 CORNYN: ‘Who’s paying the premiums for those people who don’t even know they’ve been signed up on ACA?’ BLASE: ‘The taxpayer’s paying the full premium… 85% of the revenue that insurers collect comes from the federal taxpayer.’ WASHINGTON – Today in the Senate Finance Committee, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) discussed […]
Cornyn Backs Lawsuit to Remove Illegal Voters from Harris County Voter Rolls
News Lawsuit Seeks to Remove Thousands of Unlawful Texas Voters November 19, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today released the following statement in support of Hotze v. Bennett, Steven Hotze’s lawsuit against Harris County for failing to remove tens of thousands of ineligible voters, including potential illegal immigrants, felons, non-residents of Harris County, […]
Cornyn, Colleagues Introduce the STOP Human Trafficking Act
News November 6, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), along with Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), introduced the Supporting Transportation Operations that Prevent (STOP) Human Trafficking Act. This legislation would improve the detection and prevention of human trafficking in our transportation sectors by authorizing recommendations made […]
Cornyn Blasts Jack Smith for Targeting Republicans as Part of Arctic Frost
News October 29, 2025 We don’t have the time to go through all of the many ways that the Democratic Party and President Trump’s opponents…tried to destroy him. If they would do that to the President of the United States, if they would do this to United States Senators and Members of Congress, what would […]