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 Urges Olympic Committee to Finalize Ban on Men Competing in Women’s Sports
News November 24, 2025 AUSTIN – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today sent a letter to the newly elected President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), Kirsty Coventry, urging the IOC to finalize and implement a ban on biological males competing in female categories at the Olympic Games to ensure fairness, safety, and integrity in […]
Cornyn, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Protect Medical Residents from Coercive Abortion Training
News November 24, 2025 AUSTIN – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), along with Senator James Lankford (R-OK) and a group of their Senate GOP colleagues, introduced the Conscience Protections for Medical Residents Act, which would ensure medical students and residents are never pressured or coerced into abortion training that violates their moral or religious beliefs […]
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 Bill to Disrupt Pipeline of Illicit Chinese Vapes, Tobacco Products Passes Senate
News November 12, 2025 AUSTIN – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after provisions from his Ensuring the Necessary Destruction of (END) Illicit Chinese Tobacco Act, which would give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to destroy adulterated, misbranded, or counterfeit imported tobacco products, such as vapes and e-cigarettes that […]
Cornyn, Van Duyne Introduce Bill to Disrupt Pipeline of Illicit Chinese Vapes, Tobacco Products
News November 7, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and Congresswoman Beth Van Duyne (TX-24) introduced the Ensuring the Necessary Destruction of (END) Illicit Chinese Tobacco Act, which would give the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority to destroy adulterated, misbranded, or counterfeit imported tobacco products, such as vapes and e-cigarettes, that […]
Cornyn Supports Texas’ Application for Program Benefitting Rural Health
News November 6, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today released the following statement in support of the State of Texas’ application for funding through the Rural Health Transformation (RHT) Program, which was created in the Cornyn-backed One Big Beautiful Bill Act and allocated $50 billion toward rural health care across the nation: […]
Cornyn Lays Bare Obamacare Shortcomings on Shutdown Day 34
News November 3, 2025 Obamacare… created a tangled web of regulations alongside of taxpayer-funded subsidies that ultimately only led to higher costs. Since 2021, the cost taxpayers have incurred to subsidize Obamacare plans has increased a staggering 150%. When we look for a solution to rising health care costs, we should be wary of listening […]
Cornyn, Colleagues’ Resolution Recognizing Red Ribbon Week Passes Senate
News October 30, 2025 WASHINGTON – Today, the Senate passed a resolution from U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Jim Risch (R-ID), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Bernie Moreno (R-OH), and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) recognizing Red Ribbon Week, the nation’s largest and longest-running drug-use prevention campaign, from October 23 through October 31, 2025. Text […]
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: 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 […]
Cornyn: National Domestic Violence Hotline to Receive Nearly $19M to Support Survivors
News October 16, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Family Violence Prevention and Services (OFVPS) and the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) announced that the National Domestic Violence Hotline was awarded […]
Cornyn, Colleagues Urge HHS & FDA to Halt Abortion Pill Approval
News October 9, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today joined 50 of his Senate Republican colleagues in a letter to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Dr. Martin Makary urging HHS and FDA to reconsider the […]
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 Bills to Combat Fentanyl Crisis Head to President’s Desk
News September 19, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after his Halting the Epidemic of Addiction and Loss (HEAL) Act, which would expand access to new opioid overdose reversal agents in addition to naloxone by updating guidance and grant language from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services […]