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
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Nay	Jun 30, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive Section 302(F) of the CBA Re: Amdt. No. 2696	Nay	Jun 30, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Nay	Jun 30, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Nay	Jun 30, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Nay	Jun 30, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Nay	Jun 30, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Yea	Jun 30, 2025	Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Nay	Jun 30, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Nay	Jun 30, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Yea	Jun 30, 2025	Decision of Chair Sustained	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Does the Decision of the Chair Stand as the judgment of the Senate that amdt. no. 2360 does not violate section 313(b)(1)(E) of the CBA?	Yea	Jun 30, 2025	Decision of Chair Sustained	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 1 — An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.	Yea	Jun 28, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 59 — A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran that have not…	Nay	Jun 27, 2025	Motion to Discharge Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Kenneth Kies, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury	Yea	Jun 26, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Kenneth Kies to be an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury	Yea	Jun 25, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Paul Dabbar, of New York, to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce	Yea	Jun 25, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Paul Dabbar to be Deputy Secretary of Commerce	Yea	Jun 24, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Daniel Zimmerman, of North Carolina, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense	Yea	Jun 24, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Daniel Zimmerman to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense	Yea	Jun 23, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Rodney Scott, of Oklahoma, to be Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security	Yea	Jun 18, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Olivia Trusty, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission (Reappointment)	Yea	Jun 18, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Rodney Scott to be Commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security	Yea	Jun 18, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 1582 — GENIUS Act	Yea	Jun 17, 2025	Bill Passed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Olivia Trusty, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Federal Communications Commission	Yea	Jun 17, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Gary Andres, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services	Yea	Jun 17, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	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.