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....
Sen. John Cornyn stepped up his critique of Barack Obama's handling of Afghanistan today, penning an open letter to the president accusing him of "indecision" and "procrastination." "I am dismayed by your seeming indecision regarding the way ahead in Afghanistan....
Last Sunday on CBS' Face the Nation, Texas Sen. John Cornyn called on President Barack Obama to more quickly decide how to proceed in Afghanistan: send in more troops, as his top commanders have urged, or withdraw and shift...
John Cornyn is preparing for a May special election to fill the Senate seat that will probably be vacated by Kay Bailey Hutchison, who is running for governor against fellow Republican Rick Perry. Cornyn is chairman of the National Republican...
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, says the Smadi case -- the Jordanian arrested last week for trying to blow up a Dallas office tower -- underscores the need to beef up immigration enforcement. And, like other officials we've talked with, he...
Back in 2002, it was up to Republican John Cornyn to keep a Kirk from taking a Senate seat -- Ron Kirk, the Democratic nominee, former Dallas mayor and now, the president's trade ambassador. Cornyn won that election. Fast forward...
Sen. John Cornyn devoted much of his weekly conference call with reporters, naturally, to health care. He's been busily trying to amend the Baucus bill in the Senate Finance Commitee and, arguably, using his seat on that panel to score...
The Senate Finance Committee has begun reviewing the proposal filed by Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont. As a relatively junior member, and a member of the minority, Texan John Cornyn is having to wait his turn, which he'll use to argue...
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy Texas Sen. John Cornyn argued this morning on NBC's "Meet the Press" against an "ideological fixation on the public option" - the boogeyman in the health care debate....
Texas Sen. John Cornyn was tapped to deliver this week's GOP address and, like President Barack Obama's weekly address, his focuses mainly on the health care debate -- naturally, in a week punctuated by Obama's big speech to Congress....
Sen. John Cornyn will deliver the Republicans' weekly radio address tomorrow. And on Sunday, he's been booked as a guest on NBC's "Meet the Press." Cornyn, poised to become Texas' senior senator (whenever Kay Bailey Hutchison resigns), is a...
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, issued this statement on the death of colleague Ted Kennedy, whose views on most things of substance were distinctly at odds from his own: "I am deeply saddened by the news of Ted's passing, and thankful...
Undoubtedly you have heard about the protest at Rep. Lloyd Doggett's public meeting in Austin. Doggett was cornered by a posse that chanted "just say no" as he talked about healthcare at a grocery store parking lot in Southwest Austin....
Sen. John Cornyn thinks Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's decision to quit the Senate this fall (to run for governor) will draw more Republicans into the field to replace her. That gang already includes former Secretary of State Roger Williams, Railroad...
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