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Cornyn: City of Houston to Receive $175K to Promote Public Safety

News October 17, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) announced that the City of Houston was awarded a federal grant of $175,000 through the Community Policing Development Microgrants program, which encourages innovative solutions to combat […]

Cornyn: DFW Police Departments to Receive $330K to Promote Public Safety

News October 17, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) announced that DFW area police departments were awarded federal grants totaling nearly $350,000 through the Community Policing Development Microgrants and Accreditation program, which encourages innovative solutions […]

Cornyn: Central Texas Police Departments to Receive Nearly $600K to Promote Public Safety

News October 17, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) announced that Central Texas area police departments were awarded federal grants totaling more than half a million dollars through the Community Policing Development Microgrants program, which […]

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, Tuberville Introduce No Sharia Act

News Legislation Would Ban Sharia Law, Preserve Freedom of Religion in U.S. October 16, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) introduced the No Sharia Act to prohibit the application of Sharia Law in the United States: “Sharia Law is an affront to our Constitution and the values Texans hold […]

Cornyn, Colleagues’ Bill to Prevent Foreign Adversaries from Influencing U.S. Policy Passes Senate

News October 15, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Jim Risch (R-ID), and Thom Tillis (R-NC) released the following statements after their Preventing Adversary Influence, Disinformation and Obscured Foreign Financing (PAID OFF) Act, which would help close Foreign Agents Registration Act loopholes that allow unregistered agents of foreign adversaries to […]

Cornyn Slams Senate Democrats for Schumer Shutdown, Air Traffic Delays

News October 15, 2025 Every single time we’ve given the Democrats opportunities to do the right thing, only three of them have voted to reopen the government. Three airports in Texas are seeing some of the worst delays. It is really not rational that Senate Democrats should impose this burden on the entire country in […]

Cornyn on Gaza Peace Deal: ‘Extraordinary’ Leadership by Pres. Trump

News October 15, 2025 I can’t think of a single President who… could have accomplished something like this before, but Trump has. For this conflict to be truly over, each and every one of the conditions laid out in President Trump’s 20-point peace deal must be implemented by both sides. If President Trump is successful […]

Cornyn Bill to Combat Cartels in Mexico Passes Senate

News October 15, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) released the following statement after his Partnership for Advancing Regional Training and Narcotics Enforcement Response Strategies (PARTNERS) Act, which would allow the Department of Defense (DoD) to train Mexican military forces in the United States to combat cartels in Mexico, passed the Senate as […]

Cornyn, Intelligence Committee Colleagues’ Bill to Streamline Intelligence Community Acquisition Processes Passes Senate

News October 15, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX), Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Vice Chairman Mark Warner (D-VA), and Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) released the following statements after the Intelligence Community Technology Bridge Act, which would enable the Intelligence Community (IC) to streamline acquisition processes and prioritize small […]

Cornyn, Blumenthal, Colleagues’ Bill to Combat Child Exploitation Passes Senate

News October 14, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) released the following statements after their PROTECT Our Children Act, which would reauthorize and modernize the Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force Program, passed the Senate as part of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal […]

Cornyn, Kelly Bill to Enhance U.S.-Mexico Counternarcotics Efforts Passes Senate

News October 14, 2025 WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ) released the following statements after the Counternarcotics Enhancement Act, which would direct the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to submit to Congress an action plan to enhance counternarcotics collaboration, coordination, and cooperation between the U.S. and Mexico, passed the Senate […]

What the Defense Bill Means for Texas

News Cornyn Secures Key Provisions in NDAA for Fiscal Year 2026 October 10, 2025 WASHINGTON – Yesterday evening, the Senate passed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2026, which includes multiple wins for Texas and legislation authored by U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) that will benefit Texas service members and military installations, […]