John Cornyn

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**FILE** Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, accompanied by Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (right), Texas Republican, and Sen. John Barrasso, Wyoming Republican, speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington on June 18, 2013. (Associated Press)

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"Despite the promises made by President Obama Obamacare is causing health insurance premiums to rise," says Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican. A bill he has introduced "would bring much-needed transparency to the onslaught of higher costs families will be facing."

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** FILE ** In this Tuesday, June 28, 2011, file photo, Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., center, flanked by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, left, and Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., speaks during a meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. The Senate holds its second hearing Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, on gun curbs since the December 2012 shooting deaths of 20 first-graders in Newtown, Conn. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

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Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, wants the Justice Department to release information on gunrunning operations in Texas and the source of guns in the 2011 killing of a U.S. agent. (Associated Press)

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Republican Sens. John Cornyn of Texas and Charles Grassley of Iowa celebrated their first “Meat Monday” this week with 52 orders from Hill Country Barbecue in the District. The savory indulgence came in response to the U.S. Department of Agriculture encouraging its employees to boycott meat on Mondays. (Courtesy Sen. John Cornyn)

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From left, Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Saxby Chambliss of Georgia and John Cornyn of Texas are among GOP senators pressing Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to name an independent counsel to probe national security leaks. (Associated Press)

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Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, criticizes U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder as he speaks to activists from America's political right at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, grills U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. (in foreground) on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives' controversial gun-smuggling tactics during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2011. (T.J. Kirkpatrick/The Washington Times)

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Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, has sent a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. demanding answers about the Fast and Furious gun operation. (Associated Press)

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Public corruption "is a problem across this country," says Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican, co-sponsor of a bill to strengthen exisiting laws applying to misconduct in office. "Our citizens deserve to be governed by the rule of law, not the rule of men." (Associated Press)