John Cornyn — GovTally

Issue areas

Derived from issue-tagged bills they sponsored and stated positions — each links to the underlying record. AI-derived tags

Foreign Policy & Trade 5 Civil Rights & Liberties 4 Defense & Military 4 Environment & Energy 4 Criminal Justice & Policing 3 Agriculture 2 Social Services & Welfare 2 Technology & Privacy 2 Banking & Finance 1 Economy & Taxes 1 Government Operations & Budget 1 Gun Policy 1 Immigration 1 Labor & Employment 1 Transportation & Infrastructure 1

Offices & terms

Office	Party	From	To	Source
U.S. Senator (Class 2), TX current Texas	Republican	Jan 3, 2021	Jan 3, 2027	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US Senate District Texas current United States	Republican	Dec 2, 2002	Dec 31, 2030	openstates/people CC0-1.0
US Senate District Texas United States	Republican	Jan 6, 2015	Jan 3, 2021	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 2), TX Texas	Republican	Jan 6, 2015	Jan 3, 2021	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US Senate District Texas United States	Republican	Jan 6, 2009	Jan 3, 2015	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 2), TX Texas	Republican	Jan 6, 2009	Jan 3, 2015	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US Senate District Texas United States	Republican	Jan 7, 2003	Jan 3, 2009	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 2), TX Texas	Republican	Jan 7, 2003	Jan 3, 2009	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US Senate District Texas United States	Republican	Nov 30, 2002	Jan 3, 2003	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 2), TX Texas	Republican	Nov 30, 2002	Jan 3, 2003	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

Committee assignments

Joint Committee on Taxation unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Finance unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Finance — Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Finance — International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness — Chairman unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Finance — Taxation and IRS Oversight unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — Africa and Global Health Policy unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Budget unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Border Security and Immigration — Chairman unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Crime and Counterterrorism unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Privacy, Technology, and the Law unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — the Constitution unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control — Chairman unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

Ideology — academic context, not a GovTally claim

DW-NOMINATE coordinates (Congress 119): economic dim. 0.471, social dim. -0.060. Voteview DW-NOMINATE Voteview-academic

Roll-call votes (840 recorded)

Vote	Position	Date	Result	Source
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Earl Matthews to be General Counsel of the Department of Defense	Yea	Jul 28, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: David Wright, of South Carolina, to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission	Yea	Jul 28, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: David Wright to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission	Yea	Jul 28, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Emil J. Bove III to be U.S. Circuit Judge for the Third Circuit	Yea	Jul 24, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Richard Topping, of Ohio, to be Chief Financial Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs	Yea	Jul 24, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Richard Topping to be Chief Financial Officer, Department of Veterans Affairs	Yea	Jul 24, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Matthew Lohmeier, of Arizona, to be Under Secretary of the Air Force	Yea	Jul 24, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Matthew Lohmeier to be Under Secretary of the Air Force	Yea	Jul 23, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Aaron Szabo, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency	Yea	Jul 23, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Aaron Szabo to be an Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency	Yea	Jul 23, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Zachary M. Bluestone, of Missouri, to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri	Yea	Jul 23, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Zachary M. Bluestone to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri	Yea	Jul 23, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3944 — Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026	Yea	Jul 23, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: John Hurley, of California, to be Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes	Yea	Jul 23, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Arielle Roth, of the District of Columbia, to be Assistant Secretary of Communications and Information	Yea	Jul 23, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Bradley Hansell, of Virginia, to be Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security	Yea	Jul 22, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Aaron Lukas, of Arkansas, to be Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence	Yea	Jul 22, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3944 — Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026	Yea	Jul 22, 2025	Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 3944 — Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, Agriculture, and Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2026	Yea	Jul 22, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Cristian M. Stevens, of Missouri, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri	Yea	Jul 22, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Joshua M. Divine, of Missouri, to be United States District Judge for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri	Yea	Jul 22, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Terrance Cole, of Virginia, to be Administrator of Drug Enforcement	Yea	Jul 22, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Terrance Cole to be Administrator of Drug Enforcement	Yea	Jul 21, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: John Hurley to be Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Crimes	Yea	Jul 17, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Arielle Roth to be Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information	Yea	Jul 17, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD

Campaign funding

1,000 recorded contributions totalling $4,819,392. Amounts and dates come straight from FEC filings; funding-type labels are software-classified from those filings classified — 662 of 1000 classified so far.

Funding type	Contributions	Total	Share
Big donor	512	$1,737,962	36%
Corporate PAC	134	$1,294,850	27%
Party	16	$1,045,414	22%
Unclassified	338	$741,167	15%

Largest contributions

Amount	Donor	To committee	Type	Date	Source
$164,824	CORNYN VICTORY COMMITTEE	TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC.	Party	Sep 25, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$125,500	CORNYN MAJORITY TEXAS	TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC.	Corporate PAC	Dec 31, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$117,523	LONESTAR VICTORY FUND	TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC.	Corporate PAC	Dec 31, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$96,313	CORNYN VICTORY COMMITTEE	TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC.	Party	Dec 28, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$95,877	CORNYN VICTORY COMMITTEE	TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC.	Party	Jun 21, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$89,967	CORNYN VICTORY COMMITTEE	TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC.	Party	Sep 28, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$87,153	CORNYN VICTORY COMMITTEE	TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC.	Party	Jun 22, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$86,174	CORNYN VICTORY COMMITTEE	TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC.	Party	Sep 25, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$84,859	CORNYN VICTORY COMMITTEE	TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC.	Party	Jun 21, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$78,129	CORNYN VICTORY COMMITTEE	TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC.	Party	Oct 28, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$74,978	CORNYN VICTORY COMMITTEE	TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC.	Party	Jun 22, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$43,675	CORNYN VICTORY COMMITTEE	TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC.	Party	Sep 28, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$38,659	CORNYN VICTORY COMMITTEE	TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC.	Party	Mar 27, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$37,114	WINRED	TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC.	Corporate PAC	Mar 20, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$33,965	CORNYN VICTORY COMMITTEE	TEXANS FOR SENATOR JOHN CORNYN INC.	Party	Oct 28, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)

Largest by amount; not the full set. FEC contributor data may not be used for commercial solicitation.