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 Proceed to Executive Session to Consider the Nomination of Tulsi Gabbard	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 Table the Motion to Reconsider Re: Vought Nomination	Yea	Feb 6, 2025	Motion to Table Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Russell Vought, of Virginia, to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Yea	Feb 6, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Russell Vought to be Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Yea	Feb 5, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Eric Turner, of Texas, to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Yea	Feb 5, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Eric Turner to be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development	Yea	Feb 4, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Pamela Bondi, of Florida, to be Attorney General	Yea	Feb 4, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Douglas Collins, of Georgia, to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Yea	Feb 4, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Pamela Bondi to be Attorney General	Yea	Feb 3, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Christopher Wright, of Colorado, to be Secretary of Energy	Yea	Feb 3, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Proceed to Executive Session to Consider the Nomination of Russell Vought	Yea	Feb 3, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Douglas Collins, of Georgia, to be Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Yea	Jan 30, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Christopher Wright to be Secretary of Energy	Yea	Jan 30, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Douglas Burgum, of N.D., to be Secretary of the Interior	Yea	Jan 30, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Douglas Burgum to be Secretary of the Interior	Yea	Jan 29, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Lee Zeldin, of N.Y., to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency	Yea	Jan 29, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Lee Zeldin to be Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency	Yea	Jan 29, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 23 — Illegitimate Court Counteraction Act	Yea	Jan 28, 2025	Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Sean Duffy, of WI, to be Secretary of Transportation	Yea	Jan 28, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Sean Duffy to be Secretary of Transportation	Yea	Jan 27, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Scott Bessent, of S.C., to be Secretary of the Treasury	Yea	Jan 27, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Scott Bessent to be Secretary of the Treasury	Yea	Jan 25, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Kristi Noem, of South Dakota, to be Secretary of Homeland Security	Yea	Jan 25, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Kristi Noem to be Secretary of Homeland Security	Yea	Jan 24, 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.