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July 08, 2008 Senatorial WannaBe Is a Tad Confused

Rick Noriega wants to take John Cornyn's Senate seat from him. If he's serious, he might want to get the facts on some of the issues Senator Cornyn actually deals with every day. Take FISA, for example. ...

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Source: Yeah, Right, Whatever


July 08, 2008 Noriega and The FISA Blunder

Senator John Cornyn voted to cutt off the terrorist’s freedom to use the public phone system to plot their attacks. Senator Cornyn realizes the United States is in for the fight of our lives and that the FISA bill can be an effective ...

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Source: Lonnie Walker's Blog


July 08, 2008 How Democrats Could Turn Texas Into the Blue Star State

Party leaders like Senator John Cornyn and Governor Rick Perry have veered from Rove and Bush's formula and become fence-building border warriors. "They're just digging themselves deeper in a hole by moving right on immigration," says ...

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Source: Victoria Kos


July 08, 2008 Shenanigans: Transferability

Some conservative senators, such as KBH’s Texas counterpart, Sen. John Cornyn, and, natch, McCain, voted against the Webb bill because it lacked that transferability provision, and they took some heat for it. ...

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Source: Anne Schroeder's Blogs


July 08, 2008 Cornyn Slipping in the Polls

I’ve written about Texas Senator John Cornyn before. In particular I like to highlight about how his brand of “compassionate conservatism” is just repackaged liberalism. Well, I found this article from The Hill pretty interesting. ...

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Source: Integrity News


July 08, 2008 Noriega, Cornyn spar over veterans' issues

Democrat Rick Noriega, an Army National Guard officer who wants to win over fellow military voters in his run for US Senate, is portraying Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn as no friend to veterans. Cornyn rejects that claim and cites ...

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Source: DSCC


July 08, 2008 Sen. Cornyn Calls On Democratic Leadership To Address Long-Term ...

With the Medicare reform debate expected to return to the Senate this week, US Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, today urged Senate Democratic leaders to commit to addressing the long-term solution to a broken system that shortchanges Medicare ...

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July 07, 2008 Political spins blurring energy realities

'We may accent different facts and statistics,' said Sen. John Cornyn, 'but it's undeniable that unless we increase our oil supply, we are stuck with high gas prices indefinitely.' To which Sen. Chuck Shumer, DN. ...

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Source: Rantburg


July 07, 2008 Why Nov. could be tough for local Republicans

The next vote after the presidential choice is for US senator, and five-term Houston State Representative Rick Noriega, a Democrat whose wife is an at-large Houston councilmember, is matched against Republican John Cornyn, ...

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Source: Prof13


July 07, 2008 Rick Noriega proud of taking college educations from US citizens ...

Rick Noriega is running against incumbent John Cornyn for Senator from Texas. While Cornyn is pretty horrid, Noriega is even worse. From his about page (ricknoriega.org/about): The most significant accomplishment of Rick's second ...

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Source: Lonewacko


July 07, 2008 Here We Go Again - More BS From The Administration and Congress on ...

The AMA’s advertisements focus on Senators John Cornyn of Texas, John E. Sununu of New Hampshire and Roger Wicker of Mississippi, among others. Republicans defend their position in various ways. Mr. Cornyn said the bill provided only “a ...

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Source: The Policy Center


July 07, 2008 Freedom to bear arms and bare legs

Your Senator, John Cornyn, wrote an edit for the El Paso Times this weekend. The editorial, headlined, Justices reaffirm a core constitutional right of Americans to bear arms, celebrates our second amendment. I appreciate the thought, ...

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Source: Best of Times


July 07, 2008 John Conryn -- Policy or politics? What's your opinion?

Incumbents always have the advantage of being able to use the power of their office to help win re-election. But so little has landed this year from Republican US Sen. John Cornyn's campaign, one has to ask the question of...

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Source: Texas Politics


July 07, 2008 Cornyn sticks to his message despite decline in polls, tough times ...

Sen. John Cornyn, once a heavy favorite for reelection, is showing signs of vulnerability that reflect broader troubles for Republicans...

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Source: TheHill.com : Campaign


July 07, 2008 TX Senate: 2 Items from the Chron Austin Bureau

But after receiving thousands in contributions from the Pilgrim family, Sen. John Cornyn supported a waiver led by Gov. Rick Perry to a federal ethanol mandate - a mandate that the Pilgrim's Pride corp., the nation's largest chicken ...

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Source: Lose an Eye, it's a Sport


July 07, 2008 John McCain's Economic Plan: Pure Imagination

Even fellow Senator John Cornyn (R-Texas) acknowledged that the gas tax holiday would "drive up the deficit." Even McCain's own hand-picked economists his campaign touts as supporting his economic plan "reject 'two big chunks. ...

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Source: Democratic National Committee: Blog


July 07, 2008 David Beckwith Violates Hatch Act?

A few days ago, David Mauro asked an important question, was David Beckwith using federal resources to campaign or was he campaigning for Junior Senator John Cornyn while the taxpayers picked up the tab. ...

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Source: Burnt Orange Report


July 07, 2008 Cornyn Calling Seniors; Asks For Their Thanks on Medicare Vote

Marsha wanted to let me know that our mutual senator, John Cornyn, the junior senator from Texas, had just placed a robo call to her house. Cornyn, it seems, borrowing a page out of Karl Rove’s playbook, was calling senior citizens who ...

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Source: Half Empty


July 07, 2008 Sen. Cornyn Statement On New Law Honoring Texas Civil Rights Pioneers

DALLAS-US Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, today issued the following statement after President Bush signed legislation into law that adds the names of former Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan and Dr. Hector P. Garcia, among others, to the ...

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Source: United States Senator John Cornyn, Texas


July 07, 2008 CONGRESS IS BACK; WHERE’S THE MEDICARE FIX?

John Cornyn and Kay Bailey Hutchison, whose votes allowed the 10.6-percent cut in Medicare payments to become official on July 1. In the meantime, please use the TMA Grassroots Action Center to contact our senators and send this vital, ...

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Source: TMA EVPGram


July 07, 2008 Be the Change- Pfc. Lavena Johnson

James M. Inhofe (Oklahoma) Jeff Sessions (Alabama) Susan M. Collins (Maine) Roger F. Wicker (Mississippi) Saxby Chambliss (Georgia) Lindsey O. Graham (South Carolina) Elizabeth Dole (North Carolina) John Cornyn (Texas) ...

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July 07, 2008 Medicare: GOP Pushes for the Real Death Tax

... John Cornyn of Texas, John E. Sununu of New Hampshire and Roger Wicker of Mississippi, among others. Republicans defend their position in various ways. Mr. Cornyn said the bill provided only “a patchwork fix.” Senator Charles E. ...

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Source: quaker_mole


July 07, 2008 Wall Street Journal Update on Medicare Physician Fee Schedule

They include Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter, New Hampshire Sen. John Sununu and Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker. Texas Sen. John Cornyn, who, like Sens. Sununu and Wicker, is up for reelection this fall, saw the political arm of the ...

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Source: Med Law Blog


July 06, 2008 Noriega, Cornyn Spar Over Veterans' Issues

Democrat Rick Noriega, an Army National Guard officer who wants to win over fellow military voters in his run for US Senate, is portraying Texas Republican Sen. John Cornyn as no friend to veterans.

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July 06, 2008 Noriega, Cornyn spar over veterans' issues

Democrat Rick Noriega portrays Republican US Senate incumbent John Cornyn as no friend to Texas military veterans. Noriega's a Houston state representative and an Army National Guard officer who wants to win over fellow military voters ...

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Source: KSWO - News


July 06, 2008 The Racialist party: The Nation wants Hispanics to vote for Democrats

... who until recently trailed by single digits in his long-shot race to unseat Republican John Cornyn; State Senator Leticia Van de Putte of San Antonio, a firebrand who delivered the party's Spanish-language response to this year's ...

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Source: Politics and Culture


July 06, 2008 Learning to Live

I finished up in May at A&M and moved directly to Washington DC to work for Senator John Cornyn. It was the job catch of a lifetime and I threw myself into my work. But it was hard. I had no friends in DC, my job was boring at times and ...

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Source: life as i see it


July 06, 2008 Jeffers

The president's nephew was in Dallas tonight urging local Republicans to rally behind John McCain, John Cornyn and Lowell Cannaday. George P. Bush was the featured speaker at a fund-raiser given by the Dallas County Republican Party's . ...

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Source: Jeffers


July 06, 2008 Not Messing With Texas - I promise

Noriega is hoping to knock off the incumbent Republican Senator John Cornyn - wouldn't it be great to prove the real value of Barack Obama's 50 state campaign by picking off a Senate seat in deep red Texas? See below: ...

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July 06, 2008 Sunday Night Tidbits

Texas: State Representative and Lieutenant Colonel Rick Noriega continues to hammer chickenhawk John Cornyn on Cornyn's failure to support our troops and our veterans. Illinois: The media continues to speculate on who might succeed ...

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Source: Senate Guru - Front Page


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