The House next meets Nov 23, 2009.

Sen. John Cornyn [R-TX]
U.S. Senator, Texas

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John Cornyn’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Texas [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Feb 2, 1952 / 57 years old

To contact John Cornyn, visit his official website. (Read our tips for communicating with Congress.) See the Project Vote Smart page for Cornyn for more biographical and issue information.

Cornyn’s latest tweet:

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“Independents continue to disapprove of President Obama on the economy and health care http://bit.ly/4r9u2B.” (Nov 20, 2009)

Official YouTube Feed

“Sen. Cornyn at GOP Health Care Press Conference” - Nov 20, 2009 7:15 PM. Watch Video.

On the Floor

Watch Senate proceeding 11-16-09 0:30:20 to 0:42:05 at MetaVid. More Videos | Congressional Record

Congressional Service

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by John Cornyn:

When	Role	Representing
2002-2014	U.S. Senator	Texas	(Most Recent Term Began in 2009) (was preceeded by Sen. Kay Hutchison [R-TX])

Sponsorship Analysis

Cornyn is a rank-and-file Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

Cornyn is somewhere between a leader and a follower. Cornyn sponsors others’ bills and other Members of Congress cosponsor Cornyn’s bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Cornyn, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Cornyn and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Cornyn.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Cornyn's bills without Cornyn returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Approval Rating

SurveyUSA reports Cornyn’s job approval rating at 42% as of 2007-06-19. The average approval rating among senators in states surveyed is 53%. See their survey details for more information.

Voting Record

John Cornyn missed 49 (2%) of 2325 votes since Jan 7, 2003. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Cornyn in 2007-2008 was $64,300 from employees of Exxon Mobil. John Cornyn’s net worth was between $18,004 and $95,000 in 2007, according to Cornyn’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Cornyn.

Committee Membership

John Cornyn sits on the following committees:

Member, Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry

Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Rural Revitalization, Conservation, Forestry, and Credit

Member, Subcommittee on Energy, Science and Technology

Member, Subcommittee on Hunger, Nutrition, and Family Farms

Member, Senate Committee on Finance

Member, Subcommittee on Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure

Member, Subcommittee on Health Care

Member, Subcommittee on Taxation, IRS Oversight, and Long-term Growth

Member, Senate Committee on the Budget

Member, Senate Committee on the Judiciary

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

John Cornyn has sponsored 125 bills since Jan 9, 2003 of which 111 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Cornyn has co-sponsored 523 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Cornyn and companion bills identified by CRS that were themselves enacted, but not if they were incorporated into other bills, as that information is not readily available.)

Some of Cornyn’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	S. 2579: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain knit-to-shape sweaters for men, of cotton.
	S. 2584: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain knit-to-shape articles for men or boys, of cotton.
	S. 2578: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain knit-to-shape sweatshirts for women or girls, of man-made fiber.
	S. 2580: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain knit-to-shape sweaters for girls, of cotton.
	S. 2582: A bill to suspend temporarily the duty on certain knit-to-shape pullovers for women or girls.

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