Overtaget embede 1. december 2002: Foregående: Phil Gramm: Personlige detaljer; Født: 2. februar 1952 (68 år) Houston, Texas, U.S. Politisk parti: Republikaner: Uddannelsessted: Trinity University (B.A.) [citation needed] He voted against expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines.
"[60], In a Washington Post opinion editorial, Cornyn highlighted concerns raised by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who said that widespread adoption of Huawei technology could increase vulnerability to cyberattacks and endanger NATO troops engaged on 5G-equipped battlefields. A conservative, libertarian-leaning Republican, Lee has served in the Senate since January 3, 2011. [79] In May 2019, Cornyn said it was important that the United States take measures to combat climate change, but condemned the Green New Deal as proposed by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. In the speech, he wrote, "It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle.
"[51], In December 2010, Cornyn was one of 26 senators who voted against the ratification of New Start,[52] a nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation obliging both countries to have no more than 1,550 strategic warheads and 700 launchers deployed during the next seven years and providing a continuation of on-site inspections that halted when START I expired the previous year.
[38], Cornyn was named Senate Majority Whip after the 2014 election, in which Republicans gained a Senate majority. [60][61] In December 2018 he said that the U.S. should stand with Saudi Arabia despite the assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, saying: "Saudi Arabia is fighting a proxy war against Iran in Yemen, and an overreaction, in my view, would mean that we cancel arms sales and simply abandon our ally. [84][85][86] He voted against the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010. I don't hear anyone thinking that another government shutdown is the way to achieve our goals. [ citation needed ] He also voted in favor of notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. 3590 as Amended)", "Despite Texans' support, effort to repeal health care law narrowly defeated in U.S. Senate", "How Each Senator Voted on Obamacare Repeal Proposals", "Roll Call Vote 111th Congress - 2nd Session: On Passage of the Bill (H.R. [23] In the general election, he raised $14 million, outspending Democratic nominee David Alameel by nearly 3-1. As chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Cornyn was a strong supporter of Norm Coleman's various court challenges to the 2008 election certification of the Minnesota U.S. Senate race. [69], In June 2020, amid reports that Russia had paid the Taliban bounties to kill American soldiers and that Trump had been briefed on the subject months earlier, Cornyn defended an assertion by Trump that he had never been briefed on the subject. [24] In December 2006, he was selected by his colleagues to join the five-person Republican Senate leadership team as Vice Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference. On June 8, 2017, Cornyn questioned James Comey on Hillary Clinton's emails at a committee hearing whose announced topic was the Russian interference in the 2016 election and Comey's dismissal as FBI director.
[31] Cornyn threatened that Republicans would wage a "World War III" if Senate Democrats had attempted to seat Democratic candidate Al Franken before the appeals were complete. MA: Warren (D), Markey (D), ME: Collins (R) , King (I), [117] Cornyn receives pensions from three separate state and local governments in addition to his Senate salary. [9] [10] He was named the St. Mary's Distinguished Law School Graduate in 1994 and a Trinity University Distinguished Alumnus in 2001. This article about a political figure is a stub. Bush. "[70], Cornyn voted to ban intact dilation and extraction (a surgical procedure that anti-abortion activists call "partial-birth abortion") except in cases where the mother's life was in danger, and for a criminal penalty for harming a fetus while committing another crime.
[110], Cornyn and his wife, Sandy Hansen, have two daughters. "[106], Cornyn opposes profiting from memorabilia tied to convicted murderers, and has made several unsuccessful attempts to pass laws against it. [34], On March 18, 2020, Cornyn blamed the COVID-19 pandemic on cultural practices in China and mistakenly blamed China for the MERS and swine flu epidemics.
[25], In 2005, Cornyn gained notice by connecting the Supreme Court's reluctance to hear arguments for sustaining Terri Schiavo's life with the recent murders of Judge Joan Lefkow's husband and mother as well as the courtroom murder of Judge Rowland Barnes. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's spokesman reported to the Associated Press that a roll call vote for the Clinton confirmation would be held instead on the following day, January 21, 2009, and that it was expected Clinton would "receive overwhelming bipartisan support". [93] According to Yale Law School professor William Eskridge, Cornyn "engineered the Morales majority" that saved the sodomy law. A Republican, he was the U.S. Representative for Colorado's 4th congressional district from 2011 to 2015 and a member of the Colorado House of Representatives from 2005 to 2011. He also voted against removing oil and gas exploration subsidies. After the death of Associate Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in February 2016, Cornyn said that anyone Obama nominated to replace him would have a difficult confirmation process and feel like a piñata. AZ: Sinema (D), McSally (R), ME: Collins (R), King (I) In 1998, Cornyn was elected Attorney General of Texas, serving one term until winning a seat in the U.S. Senate in 2002. I don't hear anyone thinking that another government shutdown is the way to achieve our goals. Yvonne Adams Schick was the Libertarian Party's nominee,[21] and the Green Party of Texas sought ballot access for its candidate, David B.
[14] He was the first Republican elected Attorney General of Texas since Reconstruction and was sworn in by Governor George W. Bush. [76], He voted for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 but against the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in 2009. [44] In 2013, National Journal ranked Cornyn the 14th-most conservative United States Senator.
On September 26, 2020, President Donald Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to succeed Ruth Bader Ginsburg. [93] According to Yale Law School professor William Eskridge, Cornyn "engineered the Morales majority" that saved the sodomy law. On September 6, 2002, the Austin Chronicle reported that Cornyn had announced that his office would investigate the 1999 drug bust, where the testimony of one narcotics agent led to the arrests of 46 people, 43 of whom were Black.
"[88] Cornyn joined other Republican leaders to block Cruz's procedural move to reject an increase in the debt ceiling.
At the time, the consensus among researchers was that coronavirus had originated at a wet market in Wuhan, China. Would you like Wikipedia to always look as professional and up-to-date? [67], In August 2018, Cornyn and 16 other lawmakers urged the Trump administration to impose sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act against Chinese officials responsible for human rights abuses against the Uyghur Muslim minority in western China's Xinjiang region. According to his office, he removed the reference to the box turtle in the actual speech,[47] but The Washington Post ran the quote, as did The Daily Show. 3590 as Amended)", "Despite Texans' support, effort to repeal health care law narrowly defeated in U.S. Senate", "How Each Senator Voted on Obamacare Repeal Proposals", "Roll Call Vote 111th Congress - 2nd Session: On Passage of the Bill (H.R.
RI: Reed (D) , Whitehouse (D) , Cornyn was born in Houston, the son of Atholene Gale Cornyn (née Danley) and John Cornyn II, a colonel in the U.S. Air Force. He has served as the 42nd lieutenant governor of Texas since January 2015, under Greg Abbott. [53], In August 2012, following news reports that a Russian Akula-class nuclear-powered submarine operated in the Gulf of Mexico purportedly undetected for over a month, Cornyn demanded details of this deployment from Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert. In the March Republican primary, Railroad Commissioner Barry Williamson received 38% of the vote and Cornyn, then a state Supreme Court Justice, 32%. On the day of Obama's inauguration, it was reported that Cornyn would prevent Hillary Clinton from being confirmed as secretary of state by unanimous floor vote that day. Addison Mitchell McConnell Jr. is an American politician serving as Kentucky's senior United States senator and as Senate majority leader. [75], Cornyn voted to permanently repeal the estate tax and to raise the estate tax exemption to $5 million. On the day of Obama's inauguration, it was reported that Cornyn would prevent Hillary Clinton from being confirmed as secretary of state by unanimous floor vote that day. "[88] Cornyn joined other Republican leaders to block Cruz's procedural move to reject an increase in the debt ceiling. [34], On March 18, 2020, Cornyn blamed the COVID-19 pandemic on cultural practices in China and mistakenly blamed China for the MERS and swine flu epidemics. [12] In the April runoff election, Cornyn defeated Williamson, 58% to 42%. In the speech, he wrote, "It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. New Details On Sandy Cornyn", "Sen. Cornyn Reveals Not One, Not Two, but Three Public Pensions Atop His Salary", Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, Vice Chair of the Senate Republican Conference, Lieutenant Governor & President of the Senate, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, Chairmen of the National Republican Senatorial Committee, Republican Party Whips in the United States Senate. [citation needed], In a February 24, 2019 tweet, Cornyn mocked dictatorship, centralized power and democratic socialism by quoting Italian fascist leader Benito Mussolini as saying "We were the first to assert that the more complicated the forms assumed by civilization, the more restricted the freedom of the individual must become.