Cornyn, Cruz, Pfluger Urge DOJ, DHS to Prioritize $11B Reimbursement to Texas for Border Security Costs
News November 14, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Congressman August Pfluger (TX-11) today led a letter with members of the Texas congressional delegation to the U.S. Departments of Justice (DOJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) urging them to prioritize the release of funds set aside in the One […]
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 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 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, 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 […]
Sen. Cornyn Introduces Legislation to Hold Mexico Accountable for Lack of Water Deliveries to Texas
News November 7, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, introduced the Ensuring Predictable and Reliable Water Deliveries Act of 2025. The bill strengthens enforcement of the 1944 Water Treaty relating to the utilization of the waters of the Colorado and Tijuana Rivers […]
Cornyn, Blumenthal, Colleagues’ Bill to Aid Recovery of Nazi-Confiscated Art Passes Committee
News November 6, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Thom Tillis (R-NC), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), John Fetterman (D-PA), Eric Schmitt (R-MO), and Katie Britt (R-AL) released the following statements after the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (HEAR) Act, which would aid in the recovery of Nazi-looted art and […]
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 Condemns Rising Tide of Antisemitism
News November 6, 2025 Unfortunately, we have seen a resurgence of another vile ideology in recent times – antisemitism, the world’s oldest form of hate. Republicans in the House and the Senate rallied to the defense of American Jews facing this rising tide of hatred from the radical fringes of the Left. I hope all […]
Cornyn, Colleagues Introduce the STOP Human Trafficking Act
News November 6, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), along with Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), introduced the Supporting Transportation Operations that Prevent (STOP) Human Trafficking Act. This legislation would improve the detection and prevention of human trafficking in our transportation sectors by authorizing recommendations made […]
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 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 Blasts Jack Smith for Targeting Republicans as Part of Arctic Frost
News October 29, 2025 We don’t have the time to go through all of the many ways that the Democratic Party and President Trump’s opponents…tried to destroy him. If they would do that to the President of the United States, if they would do this to United States Senators and Members of Congress, what would […]
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 […]