Senator John Cornyn

Republican  •  Texas  •  3rd Term  •  Sworn In 2002
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11/19/09
PC Free Zone

Sen. John Cornyn of Texas is joining Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., in publicly declaring that the attack on Fort Hood is likely an act of Islamist terrorism. Cornyn wrote a letter to President ...

11/19/09
Senate Bill Draws Immediate Reactions From GOP, Interest Groups ...

Reid will afford all Americans the same courtesy that he had: ample time to study the legislation and deliberate the best way to proceed," said Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a leading Republican. ... Senate Budget ranking member Judd Gregg ...

11/19/09
Cornyn: Reid's proposed Senate health care bill will have negative ...

Sen. John Cornyn wants to keep Texans informed and engaged as the debate on health care reform moves forward in Washington. Please visit www.cornyn.senate.gov and www.facebook.com/Sen.JohnCornyn to share your ideas for how best to ...

11/19/09
Wonk Room » Cornyn Senselessly Wonders If Alleged Terrorists Can ...

Republicans often use immigration as a wedge to kill initiatives and policies they don't like, but Sen. John Cornyn's (R-TX) most recent antics are quite a stretch. Yesterday, the Senate Judiciary Committee put Atty. Gen. ...

Source: Wonk Room
11/19/09
Mahoney Out, Field Set (?) In NH - Hotline On Call

Leader Mitch McConnell, NRSC chair John Cornyn and Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). Ayotte is positioning herself as a mainstream conservative, while her opponents seek different niches within the GOP base. Lamontagne has sought to portray ...

11/19/09
METRO COLUMNISTS Blog | The Dallas Morning News

Earlier this year, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn wrote a guest column for Texas Laywer calling for reform of the judicial selection process. As he bravely points out, both Democrats and Republicans have called for a new way of selecting judges. ...

11/19/09
Civilian Trials for 9/11 Suspects Aren't Enough Civilian Trials ...

Conservative commentators harshly criticized the move as either giving the heinous terrorists a break or, in the words of Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), treating the 9/11 attackers as “common criminals.” Even liberals on the MSNBC ...

11/19/09
Call 202-224-3121. Tell Your Senator to Vote NO on Hamilton ...

Ask John Cornyn and the NRSC if they are supporting a no vote. Oops, we already know what Lugar of Indiana, Alexander of Tennessee, Chambliss of Georgia, Collins and Snowe of Maine, the Grand Poobah- Cornyn of Texas; Gregg of New ...

Source: RedState
11/19/09
CuriosityCat: President Obama's rule of law firestorm

Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn asked. “Will you defy that order?” Mr. Holder made it clear that by moving Mr. Mohammed to a prison offshore – such as Bagram in Afghanistan, where hundreds of detainees are held – a release order ...

11/18/09
Activist Judges Begin Short March into Judiciary - With RINO Help

...included some faithful RINOs but a few surprises: Lamar Alexander (TN), Saxby Chambliss (GA), Susan Collins (ME), John Cornyn (TX), Judd Gregg (NH), Orrin Hatch (UT), Richard Lugar (IN), Lisa Murkowski (AK), Olympia Snowe (ME), and John Thune (SD). Kay

Source: Moonbattery
11/18/09
The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Does John Cornyn Endorse This?

Becky| 11.18.09 @ 7:52AM. Because Crist is nonsensical on many things, and people are tuning him out. He wants to be a Senator more than he wants to make sense. Reply to this ... Does John Cornyn Endorse This? Robert Stacy McCain ...

Source: AmSpecBlog
11/18/09
Fort Hood attack likely Islamist terrorism, Cornyn and Lieberman say

Sen. John Cornyn of Texas wrote a letter to President Obama today urging the White House not to let political correctness get in the way of investigating the Nov.

11/18/09
DownWithTyranny!: Mainstream Conservatives Slap Down Jeff Sessions ...

Lamar Alexander (R-TN), Saxby Chambliss (R-GA), John Cornyn (R-TX), Orrin Hatch (R-UT), Dick Lugar (R-IN), John Thune (R-SD), Judd Gregg (R-NH), Olympia Snowe (R-ME), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) all voted to confirm ... As Senator Hatc

11/18/09
Senate Bill, All 2074 Pages, Posted Online - Prescriptions Blog ...

“Until we have had a chance to read the full 2074-page Reid bill, it's impossible for Americans to fully grasp what the majority leader has cooked up behind closed doors,” Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas, said in a statement ...

11/18/09
NBC and ABC cite conservative criticism of criminal terror trials ...

"Trying these individuals in federal courts for the heinous acts they allegedly committed, is by no means treating them 'as common criminals,' as Senator [John] Cornyn inaccurately describes such process. Those federal courts which ...

11/18/09
'Heads I Win, Tails You Lose': In 9/11 Case, KSM Won't Walk Free ...

To be sure, Holder later expanded on his answer when another Republican senator, John Cornyn of Texas, pushed him on the same question. What would happen, Cornyn asked, if a federal judge were to decide that Mohammed had been denied his ...

11/18/09
GOP leads media charge - TheHill.com

Y.), said that while House Republicans have led the recent social media charge in Congress, he is also working with Senate members, such as John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), in ramping up their use of Facebook. ... So does Sen. John Kerry

Source: Top News
11/18/09
The American Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Reid Promises Senate Health ...

But he was evasive when asked specifically whether he already has lined up the 60 votes needed to bring the bill to the floor, telling reporters that they would have to ask individual Senators. UPDATE: Sen. John Cornyn, via Twitter, ...

11/18/09
Facts not Fairies

Conservative commentators harshly criticized the move as either giving the heinous terrorists a break or, in the words of Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), treating the 9/11 attackers as "common criminals." Even liberals on the MSNBC ...

11/18/09
Wednesday's Starting Lineup - Hotline On Call

Holder can expect harsh questioning from Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the ranking member, and Sens. Jon Kyl (R-AZ), Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and John Cornyn (R-TX). In a round of interviews aired 11/17 from China, Pres. Obama backed his AG, ...

11/18/09
Stimulus Goes to the Dogs - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

At the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this morning, Sen. John Cornyn asked Attorney General Eric Holder about the decision he announced Friday to try some detainees, including the 9/11 plotters, in Article III courts: "Does the ...

Source: Hit & Run
11/18/09
Holder: If KSM somehow is not convicted, he will still not be ...

Texas Republican Senator John Cornyn asked. “Will you defy that order?” Mr. Holder made it clear that by moving Mr. Mohammed to a prison offshore – such as Bagram in Afghanistan, where hundreds of detainees are held – a release order ...

11/18/09
The Washington Monthly

Picked up a coupon for Depends in HEB the other day that I intend to send to my esteemed Senator, John Cornyn, who is also wetting his pants over the thought of these evil terrorists with their super powers getting loose on the mainland ...

11/18/09
Why Did GOP Senators Back Down on Filibuster? | The FOX Nation

John Cornyn (R-TX) Orrin Hatch (R-UT) Richard Lugar (R-IN) John Thune (R-SD) Judd Gregg (R-NH) Olympia Snowe (R-ME) Susan Collins (R-ME) Lisa Murkowski (R-AK). Wednesday, November 18, 2009 at 07:14 PM Report. test image .... It's interesting to see th

11/18/09
Obama court nominee David Hamilton clears Senate hurdle ...

“Judge Hamilton is a pawn in partisan political warfare – that is the long and short of it,” said Sen. Arlen Specter (D) of Pennsylvania. Senator Specter noted that during the Bush years “this chamber was almost torn apart with the ferocity and ..

Source: Politics
11/18/09
Sob Stories

...front and reform is some kind of plot to destroy America. I would like to see people like Senators Mitch McConnell, John Cornyn, Tom Coburn, James Inhofe, David Vitter and yes, Joe Lie-berman, marched into a room and forced to listen to real-life storie

Source: Ohio Daily
11/18/09
Polling and Political Wrap-Up, 11/18/09

NH-Sen: NRSC Chair John Cornyn may have said the NRSC's endorsement in contested primaries would be worthless, if they even gave it, but the Senate GOP establishment is making no bones about preferring Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire's ...

Source: malarkynews
11/18/09
Texas Insider » Sen. Cornyn: CMS Report Confirms Fraud Runs ...

WASHINGTON—U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, a member of the Senate Finance Committee, today issued the following statement regarding a new federal report indicating the government paid more than $47 billion in questionable Medicare ...

11/18/09
Polling and Political Wrap-Up, 11/18/09 | Bloggers For Change

NH-Sen: NRSC Chair John Cornyn may have said the NRSC's endorsement in contested primaries would be worthless, if they even gave it, but the Senate GOP establishment is making no bones about preferring Kelly Ayotte in New Hampshire's ...

11/18/09
The Huddle - POLITICO.com

“For much of this decade, Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, now the top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, led the fight against Democratic filibusters of George W. Bush's judicial nominees. He decried Democrats' "unprecedented, ... “I t

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