John Cornyn
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"John Cornyn III" is the Seniority in the United States Senate/senior United States Senate/United States Senator from Texas, serving since 2002. He is a member of the United States Republican Party/Republican Party and the current United States Senate Republican Whip/Senate Majority Whip for the 114th United States Congress/114th Congress. Cornyn previously served as Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee from 2007 to 2011.

Born in Houston, Texas/Houston, Cornyn is a graduate from Trinity University (Texas)/Trinity University and St. Mary's University School of Law, receiving his Master of Laws/LL.M. from the University of Virginia School of Law. Cornyn was a Judge on Texas' 37th District Court from 1985 to 1991, until he was elected an associate justice of the Texas Supreme Court, where he served 1991 to 1997. In 1998, Cornyn was elected Attorney General of Texas, serving one term until winning a seat in the U.S. Senate United States Senate election in Texas, 2002/in 2002. He was re-elected to a second term United States Senate election in Texas, 2008/in 2008 and successfully ran for a third term United States Senate election in Texas, 2014/in 2014.

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It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right. Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife.

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If there is a nuclear tactic being used here, I submit it is the use of that obstruction where a willful minority blocks a bipartisan majority from voting on the President's judicial nominees.

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I am pleased to report that Texas is known for having one of the strongest set of open government laws in our Nation. And ever since that experience, I have long believed that our federal government could use 'a little Texas sunshine.'

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Justices are not politicians, ... They don't run on a political platform, and senators should not ask them to do so.

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In my state, from the time ... the most hardened criminals are convicted of the most heinous crimes ... their case is reviewed by not only a jury of 12 of their peers but up to 23 different judges ... perhaps even more.

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The war on terror is not limited to Iraq. It is not limited to Afghanistan. They are but fronts in the global war we are waging today.

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Only reinforces the fact that the archives' efforts to be thorough in the production of documents are unprecedented.

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Momentum continues to grow in Congress to pass legislation to protect homes, small businesses, and other private property against unreasonable government use of the power of eminent domain.

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Tens of thousands of documents have already been released ? more than any Supreme Court nominee in history, ... And with each new release of information, it's growing increasingly difficult for the president's opponents to complain with a straight face about the need for more information.

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