Cornyn Calls on Senate Appropriators to Prevent Taxpayer-Funded Abortions, Maintain Hyde Protections in FY26 Funding Process
News Hyde Amendment Protections Have Saved More Than Two Million Lives & Must Continue November 25, 2025 AUSTIN – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) sent a letter to Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, […]
Cornyn, Colleagues’ Bill to Help Adjust Military Life Insurance for Inflation Heads to President’s Desk
News November 21, 2025 AUSTIN – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Angus King (I-ME) released the following statements after their Fairness for Servicemembers and their Families Act, which would help ensure life insurance packages for service members and veterans account for increases in cost of living and inflation, […]
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 […]
PHOTO: Cornyn Meets with Texas Farm Bureau
News November 20, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) met yesterday with Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) President Russell Boening and TFB board members to discuss efforts to prevent the spread of New World screwworm (NWS) and the historic wins included in the One Big Beautiful Bill, now law, which will bolster the agriculture […]
Cornyn Celebrates Senate Passage of New World Screwworm Readiness, Response Legislation
News November 12, 2025 AUSTIN – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today released the following statement after his Stop the Screwworms With Active Readiness and Mitigation (SWARM) Act passed the Senate Monday night as part of the government funding legislation. This bill would require the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to present details to Congress […]
Cornyn Statement on Senate Vote to Finally End the Schumer Shutdown
News November 10, 2025 The Schumer Shutdown will go down as the longest and dumbest government shutdown in history. WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after the Senate voted to end the Schumer Shutdown after more than 40 days of Senate Democrats repeatedly refusing to vote in favor of reopening […]
Cornyn Sounds Alarm on SNAP Funding Cliff as 3.5 Million Texans Stand to Lose Benefits Because of Schumer Shutdown
News October 30, 2025 I’ve been hearing from food banks in Texas…they will require a 50% increase in food supplies next month in order to keep up with the increased demand from people who aren’t getting paid and…people who are being denied this basic assistance. What will Senate Democrats tell families who haven’t been paid…when […]
Cornyn, Cortez Masto Introduce HUD Transparency Act to Combat Waste, Fraud, and Abuse
News October 28, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) today introduced the HUD Transparency Act, which would target waste, fraud, and abuse at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) by requiring the agency’s Inspector General (IG) to testify annually before Congress: “By requiring HUD’s Inspector […]
Cornyn Cosponsors Bill to Fund SNAP Benefits for Texas Families
News October 28, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) cosponsored the Keep SNAP Funded Act, which would appropriate full, necessary funding to provide uninterrupted Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits to 3.5 million Texans during the current lapse in appropriations for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, retroactive to the start of the shutdown: “Senate […]
Cornyn on Democrats Using Texas Airports, Air Traffic Controllers as Leverage in Schumer Shutdown
News October 28, 2025 The fact that Democrats are once again knifing the heart of this critical industry with their manufactured government shutdown should disgust all Texans. As we approach the holiday travel season, Democrats must reverse course and vote to pass the short-term government funding bill. WASHINGTON – On the first day that air […]
Cornyn: Texans Losing Access to Food Assistance, Telehealth due to the Schumer Shutdown
News October 20, 2025 Senate Democrats are literally taking food from the mouths of hungry children. Imagine the devastation of having a loved one suffer from late-stage cancer and knowing that this person is missing out on access to health care because of the Schumer Shutdown. I hope that the cries of those children who […]
PHOTO: Cornyn Meets with National Sorghum Producers
News October 8, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) met today with National Sorghum Producers leadership to discuss increasing market access for Texas producers and boosting sorghum exports. The Lone Star State is the second largest producer of sorghum in the United States and generates more than $400 million annually for the Texas […]
Cornyn Calls Attention to the Devastating Impact of the Schumer Shutdown on Texas
News October 6, 2025 Since Texas is obviously one of the largest states in the country, it will suffer an outsized impact. Texas has 15 active-duty military installations, where personnel are required to continue reporting for duty throughout the shutdown. These active duty personnel will not be paid again until a final funding deal is […]
Cornyn Factchecks the Left on Democrats’ Shutdown Claims
News October 3, 2025 The blame for this government shutdown lies squarely on the Senate Democrats’ shoulders. This shutdown is obviously not about health care if they’re actually making health care worse by shutting down government. To hold this short-term, stopgap spending bill hostage is really unconscionable. WASHINGTON – Today on the floor, U.S. Senator […]
Cornyn Statement on Senate Democrats Shutting Down the Federal Government
News September 30, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after Senate Democrats, led by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), once again voted against the clean short-term government funding bill passed by the House of Representatives, ensuring the federal government will shut down today at 12:01AM ET: “Senate Democrats’ […]