Cornyn Touts Border Security Priorities in Senate’s One Big Beautiful Bill
News June 13, 2025 AUSTIN – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today released the following statement on the border security funding included in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s legislative text for the Senate’s version of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act: “The Senate’s One Big Beautiful Bill will reverse Biden’s disastrous, manmade crisis at our southern border […]
Cornyn Texas Border Security Reimbursement Provision Included in Senate’s One Big Beautiful Bill
News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after the Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs released their legislative text for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which includes provisions he authored that would provide $13.5 billion in funding to reimburse states like […]
Cornyn, Cruz Introduce Senate Resolution Honoring Former First Lady Barbara Bush
News June 12, 2025 U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) today introduced a Senate resolution honoring the life, achievements, and public service of former First Lady Barbara Pierce Bush on the week of her 100th birthday. Text is below, and you can view the full resolution here. “Whereas, on June 8, 1925, […]
Cornyn, Schmitt Announce Whistleblower Hotline for Biden Mental Decline Cover-Up Tips
News June 12, 2025 Hotline Comes Ahead of Cornyn, Schmitt Co-Chairing Judiciary Committee Hearing on Cover-up U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Eric Schmitt (R-MO) today announced a whistleblower hotline for former White House staff and officials to come forward with any information regarding the cover-up of President Biden’s decline or insight into who was […]
Abbott, Texas Groups Endorse Cornyn-Led Push to Bring Space Shuttle Discovery to Houston
News June 11, 2025 Cornyn Announces Support for His Bring the Space Shuttle Home Act U.S. Senator John […]
Cornyn Praises Pres. Trump’s Approval of International Bridge Project in Laredo
News June 11, 2025 Green Corridors’ Permit Approval Comes After Cornyn’s Letter U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today praised President Trump’s approval of Green Corridors’ permit application to construct and operate the Green Corridors International Bridge facility, an intelligent transportation systems (ITS) commercial international crossing between Laredo, Texas, and Colombia, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, that will increase […]
Cornyn Supports Bill to Protect Children Online
News June 11, 2025 U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) cosponsored the Kids Online Safety Act, which would provide kids and parents with the tools, safeguards, and transparency they need to protect against threats to children’s health and wellbeing online: “Every day, our children see content online about suicide, eating disorders, and drug use, and […]
Cornyn, Lankford Introduce Bill to Stop Funding ‘Gender Transition’ Procedures
News June 10, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and James Lankford (R-OK) today introduced the Stop Funding Genital Mutilation Act, which would prohibit federal funding from Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) from going towards gender transition procedures at any age: “Texas taxpayers should not be forced to foot the bill […]
Cornyn Introduces Bill to Combat Foreign Adversaries’ Ownership of Texas Farmland
News June 10, 2025 U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), along with Senator Pete Ricketts (R-NE), introduced the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure (AFIDA) Improvements Act, which would codify legislative oversight recommendations to update the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act and equip the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to combat foreign adversaries’ ownership of American agricultural land: […]
Cornyn Demands FEMA Halt Biden-Era Flood Insurance Premiums
News June 10, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) sent a letter with eight of his Senate Republican colleagues to U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Acting Administrator David Richardson urging FEMA to halt Risk Rating 2.0, a Biden-era policy that caused flood insurance premiums to skyrocket for Texas homeowners and businessowners. Excerpts of […]
Cornyn Lauds Texas Space Provisions Included in Senate’s One Big Beautiful Bill
News Cornyn-Led Initiative to Make Upgrades to Johnson Space Center Included in Reconciliation Package WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) today released the following statement praising the inclusion of a Cornyn-led space provision, the Mission to Modernize Astronautic Resources (MARS) for Space Act, as well as funding for National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) […]
Cornyn, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Strengthen U.S. Competitiveness in Space
News Legislation Would Streamline Commercial Space Launches WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Rick Scott (R-FL), and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) today introduced their Licensing Aerospace Units to New Commercial Heights (LAUNCH) Act, which would streamline the application process for commercial space launches and the licensing of private remote sensing space […]
Cornyn Op-Ed: Congress Must Reimburse Texas for President Biden’s Border Security Malpractice
News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) authored the following op-ed on FoxNews.com calling out former President Biden’s failure to secure the southern border and detailing his top reconciliation priority: ensuring the federal government reimburses Texas for the billions it spent on Operation Lone Star when Joe Biden refused to do so. Congress Must Reimburse […]
Cornyn: Work of DOGE Will Live On Through One Big Beautiful Bill, Rescissions Package, Appropriations
News I don’t see the work of DOGE being finished, but rather being the starting place. While the formal Department of Government Efficiency Task Force may have concluded, the work of DOGE lives on. As a founding member of the DOGE caucus, I’ll keep doing my part…and I urge all of my colleagues to join […]
Cornyn on Senate Priorities for Pres. Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act
News This bill — the big, beautiful bill from the House — we’re going to make it even more beautiful here in the Senate. Failure is not an option. If the President’s tax cuts are not extended, the American people will face the largest tax increase in American history. The American people are depending on […]