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 Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Warner Amdt. No. 130	Nay	Feb 20, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Merkley Amdt. No. 473	Nay	Feb 20, 2025	Amendment Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Klobuchar Amdt. No. 494	Nay	Feb 20, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Waive All Applicable Budgetary Discipline Re: Schumer Amdt. No. 454	Nay	Feb 20, 2025	Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Kashyap Patel, of Nevada, to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation	Yea	Feb 20, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Kashyap Patel to be Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation	Yea	Feb 20, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Kelly Loeffler, of Georgia, to be Administrator of the Small Business Administration	Yea	Feb 19, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SCONRES 7 — An original concurrent resolution setting forth the congressional budget for the United States Government for fiscal year 2025 and setting…	Yea	Feb 18, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Howard Lutnick, of New York, to be Secretary of Commerce	Yea	Feb 18, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Proceed to Executive Session to consider the nomination of Kashyap Patel	Yea	Feb 18, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Kelly Loeffler to be Administrator of the Small Business Administration	Yea	Feb 13, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Howard Lutnick to be Secretary of Commerce	Yea	Feb 13, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Brooke Rollins, of TX, to be Secretary of Agriculture	Yea	Feb 13, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., of California, to be Secretary of Health and Human Services	Yea	Feb 13, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., to be Secretary of Health and Human Services	Yea	Feb 12, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Tulsi Gabbard, of HI, to be Director of National Intelligence	Yea	Feb 12, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Tulsi Gabbard to be Director of National Intelligence	Yea	Feb 10, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Proceed to Executive Session to Consider the Nomination of Kelly Loeffler	Yea	Feb 6, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Proceed to Legislative Session	Yea	Feb 6, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Proceed to Executive Session to Consider the Nomination of Brooke Rollins	Yea	Feb 6, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Proceed to Legislative Session	Yea	Feb 6, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Proceed to Executive Session to Consider the Nomination of Howard Lutnick	Yea	Feb 6, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Proceed to Legislative Session	Yea	Feb 6, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Proceed to Executive Session to consider the Nomination of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.	Yea	Feb 6, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Proceed to Legislative Session	Yea	Feb 6, 2025	Motion to Proceed 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.