Senator Cornyn

Issues: Health Care

Cornyn, Blumenthal, Grassley, Durbin Bill to Lower Drug Costs Passes Senate Unanimously

News Legislation Would Crack Down on Patent System Abuse July 22, 2026 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Chuck Grassley (R-IA), and Dick Durbin (D-IL) released the following statements after their Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act, which would help lower drug prices by preventing bad actors in the pharmaceutical industry from […]

Cornyn, Tillis Urge Blanche to Protect Life, Counter Dangerous Mail-Order Abortion Drugs

News July 15, 2026 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Thom Tillis (R-NC) sent a letter to Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche ahead of his nomination hearing today in the Senate Judiciary Committee urging him to resolve the mail-order abortion lawsuit, Louisiana v. FDA, by agreeing to a court-ordered consent decree, which would […]

Cornyn: Texas to Receive Nearly $11M to Improve Crisis Intervention Programs

News Funding Authorized by Cornyn’s Mental Health & School Safety Bill July 14, 2026 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) announced today that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has awarded $10,973,066 in federal grant funding to the Governor’s Public Safety Office to support state and local crisis intervention programs, including the expansion of […]

Cornyn Calls to Permanently Defund Planned Parenthood in Next Reconciliation Bill

News April 22, 2026 Once we get [Reconciliation 2.0] accomplished here in the next few weeks, it will give us enough time before the end of this fiscal year to consider a third reconciliation vehicle to accomplish additional Republican priorities. One of those priorities for me is to permanently defund Planned Parenthood. Planned Parenthood, the […]

Cornyn, GOP Colleagues Call On Trump Administration to Reinstate the Protect Life Rule

News Rule Would Undo Biden-Era Malfeasance and Prevent Taxpayer Funded Abortions March 26, 2026 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), along with Senators Ted Budd (R-NC), Steve Daines (R-MT), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Jim Risch (R-ID), Jim Banks (R-IN), Pete Ricketts (R-NE), Ted Cruz (R-TX), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), sent a letter led by Senator Todd […]

Cornyn Supports Bill to Ban Chemical Abortion Drug Mifepristone

News March 13, 2026 AUSTIN – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) cosponsored Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO)’s Safeguarding Women from Chemical Abortion Act, which would ban the chemical abortion drug mifepristone and empower women harmed by the drug to sue its manufacturers: “The data is clear that mifepristone, a mail-order drug that kills unborn children, also […]

Cornyn, Colleagues File Amicus Brief to Protect Women & Babies from Dangerous Chemical Abortion Drugs

News February 17, 2026 SAN ANTONIO – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) joined Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and 57 of their Republican colleagues in filing an amicus brief in support of Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s lawsuit, Louisiana v. FDA, to protect women and their unborn children nationwide from dangerous chemical abortion drugs, including mifepristone. The brief argues the […]

Cornyn Leads GOP Colleagues in Calling on DOJ to Recoup Fraudulent Obamacare Subsidy Payments

News Senators Ask to Claw Back Fraudulent Obamacare Payments that Enriched Insurance Companies at Taxpayers’ Expense February 11, 2026 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) led 14 of his Senate Republican colleagues in sending a letter to U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Civil Division Assistant Attorney General Brett Shumate calling on the Department to investigate and […]

PHOTO: Cornyn Meets with University of Texas Medical Branch President

News February 10, 2026 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today met with The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) President Dr. Jochen Reiser to discuss continuing support for the Galveston National Laboratory, just one of two labs of its kind in the country whose world-class research is focused on advancing public health and […]

Cornyn Cosponsors Bill to Protect Unborn Lives, Prevent Child Trafficking

News February 2, 2026 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) cosponsored the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act, which would make it a crime to knowingly transport a minor across state lines for an abortion if parental consent or notification requirements of the state of residence are not met: “Too often, minors are trafficked across […]

Cornyn Op-Ed: Congress Must Act to Crack Down on Child Care Fraud

News January 29, 2026 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) authored the following op-ed in the Washington Examiner on his Stop Fraud by SOMALIA Act, legislation he recently introduced in response to the now-exposed Somali fraud empire in Minnesota. His bill would strengthen penalties for child care providers who commit fraud and impose immigration consequences […]

PHOTO: Cornyn Meets with UT Tyler President

News January 14, 2026 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today met with The University of Texas at Tyler’s (UT Tyler) President Dr. Julie Philley to discuss how the Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program that is part of the Cornyn-backed Working Families Tax Cuts Act will benefit the rural communities that UT Health East […]