Cornyn, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Reauthorize Debbie Smith Act, Fight Rape Kit Backlog
News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) today introduced legislation to reauthorize the Debbie Smith Act, which would provide state and local law enforcement agencies with resources to complete forensic analyses of crime scenes and untested rape kits: “This landmark legislation has played a […]
Cornyn: Texas to Receive $21M for Crisis Intervention Programs
News Funding Authorized by Cornyn’s Mental Health & School Safety Bill Signed Into Law After Uvalde Shooting WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) announced today that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has awarded $21,246,509.00 in federal grant funding to the State of Texas. The funding comes from the DOJ’s Byrne State Crisis Intervention […]
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, Blumenthal Bill to Lower Drug Costs Passes Senate Judiciary Committee
News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) 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 deliberately abusing the patent system, passed the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously: “Anti-competitive behaviors from some companies who […]
Cornyn, Cruz Support Abbott Request for Federal Emergency Disaster Declaration for Southeast Texas
News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) wrote a letter to President Biden today supporting Texas Governor Abbott’s request for an emergency disaster declaration to provide federal assistance to Texans impacted by the severe weather in Harris, Jefferson, Liberty, and Orange counties last month. The Senators wrote, “The Governor and […]
VIDEO: Cornyn Previews State of the Union Address
News This evening, President Biden will deliver his second State of the Union address. Will he try to blame Republicans for the current state of our country, even though Democrats controlled all the levers of government for the last two years? Or will he finally acknowledge the many problems that proliferated under his leadership and […]
PHOTO: Cornyn Meets with Texas Law Enforcement Associations
News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) met today with members of the Texas Municipal Police Association (TMPA) and the Texas Chapter of the Fraternal Order of the Police (TX FOP), including TMPA Executive Director Kevin Lawrence and TX FOP State Past President Dennis Ward, to discuss several of his bills supporting local law enforcement. […]
Cornyn, Cruz Introduce Bill to Extend Federal Court Proceedings in West Texas
News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced the Improving Access to Our Courts Act to allow federal court proceedings to be conducted at the U.S. District Court in Alpine, Texas, which is one of the seven U.S. District Courts for the Western District of Texas and serves nine Texas counties: “The American […]
Cornyn Highlights Bill to Lower Drug Costs for Texans
News The list price for Humira is more than $80,000 per year per patient. That’s higher than the median household income in Texas. Patients in Texas and across the country are experiencing sticker shock at the pharmacy counter like never before. There’s a bipartisan desire to stop the anti-competitive behaviors… that are costing patients and […]
Cornyn Honors the 20th Anniversary of Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
News As Texans and Americans do, people from all walks of life came together at a time of tragedy and rallied behind a unified effort to help bring answers to a nation in mourning. As we mark the 20th anniversary of the loss of Columbia, I’m proud to cosponsor a Senate Resolution to commemorate the […]
Cornyn: Biden Must Work with Republicans to Avoid Debt Crisis
News The one thing that President Biden and Speaker McCarthy agree on is that we cannot breach the debt ceiling. Washington has spent and spent with no meaningful steps to balance the budget. I hope the President will walk back his statement about not negotiating and understand that he has no choice but to work […]
Cornyn, Hagerty, Senate GOP Introduce Concealed-Carry Reciprocity Bill
News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Bill Hagerty (R-TN), along with 43 of their Senate colleagues, today introduced the Constitutional Concealed Carry Reciprocity Act, which would allow individuals with concealed carry privileges in their home state to exercise those rights in any other state that allows concealed carry, while still abiding by that […]
Cornyn: Biden Admin Cooking the Books With New Border Policy
News People all over the world are taking advantage of the Biden administration’s weak policies. This new policy lets the administration roll out the welcome mat for tens of thousands of migrants, while making it seem like the numbers have actually gone down, which they have not. The President hasn’t solved the problem. He’s just […]
Cornyn, Colleagues Introduce Bill to Exempt Trafficking Survivors’ Restitution from Federal Taxes
News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) today introduced their Human Trafficking Survivor Tax Relief Act, which would exempt civil damages, restitution, and other monetary awards given to human trafficking survivors from federal income taxes. It would also codify […]
Cornyn, Blumenthal Introduce Bill to Lower Drug Costs by Preventing Patent System Abuse
News WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) introduced the Affordable Prescriptions for Patients Act, which would help lower drug prices by preventing bad actors’ anti-competitive use of patents to block generic and biosimilar competition from coming to market: “Texans shouldn’t have to pay more at the pharmacy counter because of […]