News on John Cornyn

Conservatives going back to the ÔcontractÕ well

2010-03-19T02:16:54Z

<div><p> WASHINGTON Republicans are so convinced that the fall midterm elections could be a repeat of 1994, the year that ushered them into the majority in Congress, they are reaching into the playbook for the prop that helped propel that victory: a new Contract with America.</p><p>House Republicans have tapped one of their own to begin casting for ideas to form a 10-point legislative to-do list, promises candidates would make to voters this fall.</p><p>Only ...

A promising step

2010-02-26T02:15:35Z

<div id="subtitle">Reid rightly moves jobs agenda through Senate, garnering bipartisan support</div><div><p> Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada took a big risk this month. He scrapped a large jobs bill plan that had won the support of some Republican and Democratic lawmakers because it was laden with special interest projects. Instead, Reid took the best parts of the l...

Mitch McConnell (R-KY) And Senate Republicans Discuss Last Night's Election

2010-01-20T10:32:12Z

WASHINGTON - JANUARY 20: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY)(R). and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) (L) speak about last nights special election in Massachusetts during a news conference at the US Capitol on January 20, 2009 in WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 22: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaks to members of the press after the Republican weekly policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol December 22, 2009 in Washington, DC. The U.S. Senate is expected to vote on pending healthcare legisla...

DOD to make voting easier for service members

2010-02-23T14:05:26Z

<div id="subtitle">DOD to offer improved voting registration materials worldwide to service members</div><div><p>The Department of Defense says it's making improvements to make it easier for service members and their families to register to vote when they move to a new base.</p><p>Under a policy change, service members are to be o...

Senate Republicans Hold Weekly Policy Luncheon

2009-12-15T12:46:15Z

WASHINGTON - DECEMBER 15: John Thune (R-SD) speaks about the health care bill while flanked by Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN)(R), Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) at the US Capitol, on December 15, 2009 in Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., gestures during a news conference on health care reform, Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Listening from left to right are Sens. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, Texas Sen. John Cornyn says it "sends the wrong message" to have excluded interested p...

Senate Jobs

2009-12-03T16:16:18Z

Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., left, accompanied by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, gestures during a news conference about jobs and health care, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009, on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

THE INFLUENCE GAME: Doctors' lobby in tricky spot

2010-02-24T13:26:47Z

<div><p>Does the AMA matter in the health care debate? Congress is beginning to have its doubts, despite the medical association's deep pockets and platoons of lobbyists.</p><p>It's lost its principles, some lawmakers and physicians say. Perhaps more damaging: It can't produce votes.</p><p>After a humiliating defeat in the Senate, the venerable Senate Finance Committee member John Cornyn, R-Texas, speaks during a health care reform hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. "I can't think of a more ineffective organization when it c...

Senators, AP seek more public info, fewer secrets

2010-02-25T00:40:52Z

<div id="subtitle">Senators, AP's Curley: Gov't still hiding info from public despite Obama's openness policy</div><div><p>President Barack Obama's new standards for government openness have not trickled down to some agencies, where officials have used special statutes slipped into bills to skirt the Freedo...

Secretary Of State Clinton Meets With Senators On Capitol Hill

2009-09-20T02:00:44Z

WASHINGTON - SEPTEMBER 17: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton arrives for a meeting with Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) on Capitol Hill September 17, 2009 in Washington, ...

GOP team boss likes chances of (TBA) CORNYN: REID'S CHANCES HERE ARE LIKE DODD'S IN CONNECTICUT

2010-02-25T22:48:40Z

<div id="subtitle">Cornyn says Reid could still go way of Daschle, adds: ÔWeÕd loveÕ Heller</div><div><p> WASHINGTON To Republicans its almost unbelievable, the way Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, with dismal poll numbers and a huge political target on...

Cornyn declines to endorse Ensign in 2012

2010-02-26T00:06:47Z

<div id="subtitle">Head of GOP campaign operation mum on backing Nevada Sen. Ensign for re-election in 2012</div><div><p>The head of the Senate's Republican campaign arm is not saying for now whether he will back embattled Nevada Sen. John Ensign for re-election in three ...

Sotomayor Senate

2009-07-28T10:02:14Z

Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, from left, Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa...

GOP Sens. Cornyn, Hatch to vote against Sotomayor

2010-02-26T06:46:17Z

<div id="subtitle">Republican Sens. Cornyn, Hatch to oppose Sotomayor amid GOP divide, siding with conservatives</div><div><p>Republican Sen. John Cornyn, the head of his party's Senate campaign arm, said Friday he'll vote against Supreme Court nom...

GOP Sen. Cornyn to vote against Sotomayor

2010-02-26T05:18:12Z

<div id="subtitle">Republican Sen. Cornyn to oppose Sotomayor amid GOP divide, siding with conservatives</div><div><p>Republican Sen. John Cornyn, the head of his party's Senate campaign arm, said Friday he'll vote against Supreme Court nominee

Calm Sotomayor cautious on abortion issue

2010-02-26T09:09:29Z

<div><p> Judge Sonia Sotomayor, aiming to avoid a stumble that may endanger her historic US Supreme Court nomination, cautiously deflected queries Wednesday on how she might rule in abortion rights disputes.</p><p>As her third confirmation hearing opened, Sotomayor said