President Barack Obama devoted large chunks of his State of the Union speech to cajoling Congress, both parties, into working together. Whether that's disingenuous is in the eye of the beholder; Republicans note they were shut out of health care...
The hour is getting late here in the nation's capital, but the reactions from representatives and senators continue to stream in. Here is roundup from a few Texas legislators: Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Dallas: "Like his first presidential address to Congress,...
Today's Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens United case will upend American politics, taking the handcuffs off corporations when it comes to their right to influence elections. Winners and losers? It's clearly the liberal/progressive side that's unhappy and angry at...
Republicans won a huge victory tonight in Massachusetts, claiming the Senate seat held for decades by liberal lion Ted Kennedy. Who da man? John Cornyn da man. The Texas senator chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, and his job just...
If Republicans manage to win today's special election in Massachusetts, they will break the Democrats' filibuster-proof lock on the U.S. Senate, with huge implications for health care and other issues. That would represent a huge win for Texas Sen. John...
updated with NRSC response The Democratic National Committee says Sen. John Cornyn is a hypocrite for calling on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's resignation. Yesterday, the Texas Republican became the first member of the Senate GOP leadership to say Reid...
The nation's first black president forgave Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid yesterday for racially insensitive comments. But today, Texas Sen. John Cornyn demanded that Reid resign from his leadership post for saying in 2008 that Barack Obama could win the...
President Obama says the buck stops with him when it comes to intelligence failures, including the ones that let a Nigerian board a flight on Christmas headed to the U.S. from Amsterdan with an explosive in his undergarments, even though...
Texas Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn sharply denounced the Senate's passage of a health care bill early this morning in a party-line vote. Both focused on the sweetheart deals cut by Majority Leader Harry Reid to round up...
The GAO this morning overturned the Army's decision to shift a $2.6 billion truck contract from a BAE Systems plant outside Houston to Oshkosh Corp. -- providing some political cover to Texas politicians in both parties and, obviously, a ray...
Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C., has been going around the country backing conservative Senate candidates - sometimes in defiance of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, chaired by Texas Sen. John Cornyn. Conservatives and even some not so conservatives covet his stamp...
John Cornyn clearly isn't a fan of Gov. Rick Perry's opportunistic rhetoric bashing Washington Republicans. The Perry campaign against Kay Bailey Hutchison has taken aim at all things Washington, with his party as collateral damage. For one thing, the Republican...
Reactions are coming in to President Barack Obama's speech at West Point, laying out his new strategy in Afghanistan. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas "It is encouraging that President Obama has finally concluded his re-analysis of his previous Afghanistan strategy and...
Sen. John Cornyn, still a bit hoarse, is vocalizing again. The briefly speechless junior senator recalled something Rep. Chet Edwards, D-Waco, quipped after vocal cord surgery three years ago to address recurring problems. Doctors ordered him to remain mute during...
Sen. John Cornyn croaked through his Q&A with Attorney General Eric Holder at a Senate hearing yesterday. Today, that would be an improvement. "The senator has no voice," his office declared in postponing his weekly conference call with reporters. Tough...
Texas Sen. John Cornyn has just released a letter to President Barack Obama, urging him to come right out and acknowledge that Maj. Nidal Hasan was likely "compelled by a fanatical religious ideology. "If Islamist terrorism was the driving force...
Texas' other senator, John Cornyn -- the one who isn't running for governor or, as far as we know, contemplating the best timing to quit or not quit the Senate -- is happy that colleague Kay Bailey Hutchison isn't quitting,...
From the White House to Texas, elected officials expressed their support for the families of those killed and wounded in the Fort Hood attack. Here is a sample of their reaction to the tragedy. President Barack Obama: "My immediate thoughts...
Sens. Kay Bailey Hutchison and John Cornyn are demanding assurances today that detainees at Guantanamo Bay won't receive H1N1 "swine" flu vaccine until all 159 million Americans at elevated risk have access to a vaccination. They, along with fellow Republican...
Texas Sen. John Cornyn isn't ready to point fingers of blame for the nationwide shortage of swine flu vaccine. But he's sure the situation shows the federal government isn't competent enough to entrust with even more responsibility for Americans' health....
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