John Cornyn

John Cornyn is an American politician and lawyer serving as the senior United States Senator from Texas since 2002.A member of the Republican Party,he is the current Senate Majority Whip for the 115th Congress.

Cornyn previously served as Chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee from 2007 to 2011.

Date of birth:
2nd February, 1952
Date of death:
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"The enemy is not just terrorism. It is the threat posed specifically by Islamist terrorism, by Bin Ladin and others who draw on a long tradition of extreme intolerance within a minority strain of Islam that does not distinguish politics from religion, and distorts both."
― John Cornyn
Topic(s): Politics
"If Obamacare is allowed to stand – and Congress is allowed to make the purchase of government-endorsed health insurance compulsory – there will be no meaningful limit on Washington’s reach into the lives of the American people. That is certainly not what the Founders intended."
― John Cornyn
Topic(s): Health
"Think for a moment about what Obamacare has done: The federal government has come up with its own (ever-evolving) definition of ‘health insurance,’ which now includes free access to sterilization, contraception, and certain abortifacients such as the morning-after pill."
― John Cornyn
Topic(s): Health
"By the Obama administration’s reasoning, it would be constitutionally permissible to make Americans purchase nearly any product (broccoli, gym membership) that improved their health and thereby contributed to lower health-care costs."
― John Cornyn
Topic(s): Health
"Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full ‘Taxmageddon’ scenario, President Obama’s health care law also contains a new surtax on investment that will take effect in 2013."
― John Cornyn
Topic(s): Health
"The Supreme Court has never ruled that Congress can use the Commerce Clause to require individuals to engage in an activity they have chosen to avoid. Yet that is precisely what Obamacare does: It forces Americans without health insurance to purchase coverage. Such a requirement is unprecedented and unconstitutional."
― John Cornyn
Topic(s): Health
"The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam."
― John Cornyn
Topic(s): Faith

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