This week GOP leaders in Congress, including Texas' Sen. John Cornyn, launched a rebuilding effort this week, called the National Council for a New America. It's supposed be a grassroots conversation with citizens, including non-Republicans. Texas' senior Senator Kay Bailey...
Dallas Republican Pete Sessions put on his best face for today's heralded milestone, the first 100 days of Barack Obama's presidency. Sessions has extra incentive: He leads the GOP campaign arm in the House. In a statement, he called on...
Congress is picking over the bones of mammoths that once roamed the wilds of Texas. Metaphorically speaking. A bill to designate the Waco site where a herd of mammoths died as a national monument got a positive hearing at a...
Texans in more than 70 cities are holding rallies today--called Tax Day Tea Parties--to protest higher taxes and government spending. It's part of a national effort that started in February. Local events include Dallas, Plano and Carrollton/Farmers Branch/Colleyville. Unlike the...
Texas Sen. John Cornyn, the ranking Republican on a Senate subcommittee on immigration, refugees and border security, agrees with President Obama on at least one thing: comprehensive immigration reform must be addressed this year. Obama has signaled that immigration legislation...
At a GOP fundraiser Wednesday night, Mitt Romney urged Republican lawmakers and donors to keep fighting for their ideals and against the Democrats' leftist policies. "I think the American people are seeing through what's happening," Romney told the crowd....
Or at least their words did. Texas Sen. John Cornyn quoted Dante, the Italian poet of the Divine Comedy, as he introduced Bob Pence, one of the organizers of the GOP fundraiser and a student of Italian literature. Pence called...
Texas Sen. John Cornyn opened the dinner for Republican senators and donors with a prediction--and a pun. "It's appropriate that we're here at the Newseum," Cornyn said. "Because the Republican Party intends to make some news in 2010, with your...
Led by Texas Sen. John Cornyn, Republican senators and donors are getting ready to hear from Mitt Romney at an annual GOP fundraiser tonight. The backdrop of the event at the Newseum on Pennsylvania Avenue lights up the space,...
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