Cornyn Bill to Combat Cartels in Mexico Passes Senate
News October 15, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after his Partnership for Advancing Regional Training and Narcotics Enforcement Response Strategies (PARTNERS) Act, which would allow the Department of Defense (DoD) to train Mexican military forces in the United States to combat cartels in Mexico, passed the Senate as […]
Cornyn, Intelligence Committee Colleagues’ Bill to Streamline Intelligence Community Acquisition Processes Passes Senate
News October 15, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA), and Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) released the following statements after the Intelligence Community Technology Bridge Act, which would enable the Intelligence Community (IC) to streamline acquisition processes and prioritize small […]
Cornyn, Blumenthal, Colleagues’ Bill to Combat Child Exploitation Passes Senate
News October 14, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) released the following statements after their PROTECT Our Children Act, which would reauthorize and modernize the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program, passed the Senate as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal […]
Cornyn, AG Bondi Discuss National Guard Deployment to Chicago
News October 7, 2025 CORNYN: ‘On what legal basis would a governor or mayor say, “We’re going to deny or prevent a federal law enforcement agent from enforcing federal law?”’ BONDI: ‘There is not one… that’s why right now Director Patel and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche are on their way to Chicago.’ ‘We’re going […]
Cornyn, Shaheen Introduce Bill to Counter Foreign Cyber Scams
News October 1, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) yesterday introduced the 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: “Transnational criminal organizations who are ensnaring innocent […]
Cornyn, Booker Bill to Help Law Enforcement Better Prosecute Child Abusers Passes Senate Unanimously
News September 30, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Cory Booker (D-NJ) released the following statements after their Strengthening Child Exploitation Enforcement Act, which would close loopholes in existing criminal child sexual abuse statues to help law enforcement better prosecute offenders and protect victims, passed the Senate unanimously: “Perpetrators who attack our […]
On Fox, Cornyn Discusses Former FBI Director Comey Indictment
News September 26, 2025 Clearly Director Comey went off the rails because of his antipathy – his hatred, really – for Donald Trump and made a number of decisions, including leaking confidential, maybe classified information. He was bound and determined to destroy President Donald Trump… he was ultimately unsuccessful. There needs to be accountability. AUSTIN – […]
Cornyn Statement on Indictment of Former FBI Director Comey
News September 25, 2025 HARLINGEN – U.S. Senator John Cornyn released the following statement on reports that former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey has been indicted for obstruction of justice and making false statements: “While our legal system provides for the presumption of innocence, Comey’s accountability for FBI abuses during the first […]
Cornyn Op-Ed: LETITIA Act Will Hold Politicians Accountable For Fraud
News September 23, 2025 AUSTIN – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) authored the following op-ed in the Washington Examiner highlighting his LETITIA Act, legislation that empowers the Trump administration to hold public officials who commit acts of federal bank fraud, tax fraud, or loan or mortgage fraud accountable: LETITIA Act will hold politicians accountable for fraud […]
Cornyn, Coons, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Combat Fentanyl-Laced Pill Production
News September 18, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Chris Coons (D-DE), Jerry Moran (R-KS), John Fetterman (D-PA), Thom Tillis (R-NC), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) today introduced their Fight Illicit Pill Presses Act, which would help stop the production of counterfeit and fentanyl-laced pills and make it easier for federal law enforcement to […]
Cornyn, Senate GOP Colleagues Introduce Bill to Eliminate D.C. Soft-On-Crime Laws
News Legislation Would Ensure Adults Who Commit Crimes Before the Age of 25 Are Not Prematurely Released September 16, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Ted Budd (R-NC), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today introduced the Just Incarceration of Criminal Elements (JUSTICE) in D.C. Act, which would eliminate two Washington, D.C. […]
Cornyn, Patel on Trump’s Whole-of-Government Approach to Combatting Drug Traffickers
News September 16, 2025 CORNYN: ‘Do you think a law enforcement model for dealing with these narcotraffickers is adequate to deal with the threat, or do you think we need to start thinking about this in maybe new and different ways?’ PATEL: ‘In order to eliminate…the drug trade and eliminate the pouring into this country […]
Cornyn Statement on 24th Anniversary of 9/11 Terrorist Attack
News September 11, 2025 WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released a statement on the anniversary of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, and urged the Senate to pass his American Victims of Terrorism Compensation Act (AVTCA), which would provide financial compensation to Americans injured in acts of international state-sponsored terrorism and their families: […]
Cornyn Supports Bills to End Cashless Bail & Keep Violent Criminals Off American Streets
News Legislation is Backed by Trump White House September 8, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) cosponsored two bills backed by the Trump administration that would keep violent criminals off American streets by ending cashless bail policies that empower criminals to reoffend, including the Ending Cashless Bail in Our Nation’s Capital Act, which […]
On Newsmax, Cornyn Calls Out Democrats for ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ & Fraud Allegations
News September 5, 2025 CORNYN: ‘It takes Trump Derangement Syndrome to a whole new level, where instead of agreeing with President Trump… [Democrats] choose the other side – which is less public safety, more crime.’ NEWSMAX: ‘[The LETITIA Act] may give the Trump administration the ability to go even further if people are committing bank, […]