Cornyn Slams Democratic Leader for ‘Schumer Shutdown’
News The Senate has not passed a single appropriations bill that passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee. This is not governing. This is not responsible. The Majority Leader has simply failed to let the Senate do its work. WASHINGTON – Today on the floor, U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) pointed out the hypocrisy of […]
Cornyn, Warner Bill to Reform Security Classification System Passes Senate
News Legislation Would Streamline Declassification While Modernizing the Classification System & Reviewing Existing Security Clearances WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA) released the following statements after their Sensible Classification Act of 2023, which would increase accountability and oversight of the classification system, limit overclassification, […]
Cornyn, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Increase Transparency of Federal Grant Application Process
News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), John Thune (R-SD), and Gary Peters (D-MI) yesterday introduced the Grant Transparency Act, which would require government agencies to provide competitive grant applicants with more information about their selection criteria and evaluation process: “Applicants often don’t understand why they are not awarded a […]
Cornyn: Senate Democrats’ Lack of Productivity Has Created a Major Backlog in the Senate
News We’re a quarter of the way through the 118th Congress, and we frankly don’t have a lot to show for it. Yesterday, I was interested to see that the Senator from New York, the Majority Leader, sent a letter to our Senate colleagues highlighting his plans for the next three weeks. Maybe you’d call […]
Cornyn, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Reform Security Classification System
News Legislation Would Streamline Declassification While Modernizing the Classification System & Reviewing Existing Security Clearances WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Mark Warner (D-VA), Jerry Moran (R-KS), Ron Wyden (D-OR), Susan Collins (R-ME), Angus King (I-ME), Mike Rounds (R-SD), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) today introduced the bipartisan Sensible Classification Act of 2023, which would […]
Cornyn: Biden Admin Must Be Transparent on Unidentified Objects
News It was a busy weekend for the United States military, which has now shot down three unidentified objects over North American airspace in as many days. The only path forward is full and complete transparency. President Biden needs to explain what happened and just how concerned the American people should be. And he needs […]
Cornyn: Senate Must Use ‘Every Tool Available’ to Force Biden Admin to Release Classified Documents
News They’re not policymakers. They’re supposed to tell us the good, bad, and the ugly, without regard to any sort of policy or political affiliation. This is unacceptable, and we’re going to do and use every tool available to us to gain access to this information. WASHINGTON – Today in the Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. […]
Cornyn, GOP Demand Answers from FBI on Raid of Pro-Life Activist
News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), along with a group of his fellow Republican Senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter demanding answers from the Department of Justice and FBI for the aggressive dawn raid on the home of a pro-life advocate, Mark Houck, in Pennsylvania last week. More than two dozen […]
Cornyn Op-Ed: Governing Like a King, Biden Hurting Americans
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook The president has stretched the limits of executive power to govern unilaterally, and this trend carries serious consequences for our country. When a president governs as a king, instability follows. And there’s no question the Biden administration has put our country on shaky ground. WASHINGTON— […]
Cornyn Statement on AG Garland and Justice Department’s Incriminating Silence
News Share on email Share on linkedin Share on facebook The longer the Attorney General remains silent, the more this looks like a brazen abuse of power to target a political rival. WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) issued the following statement in response to Attorney General Merrick Garland and the Biden Administration’s continued silence […]
Cornyn, Coons Bill to Apply STOCK Act Requirements to Federal Judges Signed Into Law
Bill Followed Wall Street Journal Report on Judges Neglecting Financial Disclosure Requirements, Avoiding Potential Conflicts of Interest WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Chris Coons (D-DE) released the following statements after their Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act, which would require online publication of financial disclosure reports for federal judges and mandate they submit […]
Cornyn, Coons Bill to Apply STOCK Act Requirements to Federal Judges Heads to President’s Desk
Bill Followed Wall Street Journal Report on Judges Neglecting Financial Disclosure Requirements, Avoiding Potential Conflicts of Interest WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Chris Coons (D-DE) released the following statements after the House of Representatives passed their Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act, which would require online publication of financial disclosure reports for federal […]
Cornyn, Leahy Bill to Bolster Cybersecurity Passes House
WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) today released the following statements after their legislation, the National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium Act, passed in the U.S. House of Representatives. The bill would authorize the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to work with the National Cybersecurity Preparedness Consortium (NCPC) to help prepare for […]
Cornyn, Coons Bill to Apply STOCK Act Requirements to Judges Passes Senate
Bill Followed Wall Street Journal Report on Judges Neglecting Financial Disclosure Requirements, Avoiding Potential Conflicts of Interest WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Chris Coons (D-DE) released the following statements after the Senate passed their Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act, legislation that would require online publication of financial disclosure reports for federal judges and […]
Cornyn, Cruz Urge State Department to End Passport Backlog
WASHINGTON –U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) sent a letter yesterday to Secretary of State Antony Blinken asking him to expedite passport processing in light of severe delays in issuing passports. They wrote, “We write to you to express concern about the ongoing delay in processing passport applications. In Fiscal Year 2020, the Department […]