John Cornyn
Senator for Texas · Republican · United States
“Community banks are the lifeblood of small and rural communities in Texas, providing access to capital to farmers, ranchers, and small businesses.”
Senate16 September 2026Source ↗
“First, we must ensure that digital asset third parties, such as crypto exchanges, cannot take advantage of loopholes in section 10404 to offer interest or yield-like payments on stablecoin balances.”
Senate16 September 2026Source ↗
“Madam President, yesterday, I voted to proceed to debate on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, legislation to provide oversight for the digital asset industry. This is an important bill to protect investors, provide clear rules of the road, and promote innovation and entrepreneurship.”
Senate16 September 2026Source ↗
“Mr. President, Mr. Fetterman and I appreciate the work being done to advance the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, H.R.5334, in the Senate. This bill will honor Senator Graham's legacy, help dismantle Putin's war machine, and strengthen the U.S. national security.”
Senate7 August 2026Source ↗
“Despite the limited need for helium in Russia, reports indicate that Russia is still increasing its helium production at multiple plants. This increase in production contributes to Russia's long-term strategy to export helium, which will help to continue financing Russian aggression in Ukraine.”
Senate7 August 2026Source ↗
“Only 4 percent of the total money appropriated was obligated to red flag-related activities--4 percent--in States with existing red flag laws, and those States now had to comply with the law so a stricter due process standard applied.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
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“Community banks are the lifeblood of small and rural communities in Texas, providing access to capital to farmers, ranchers, and small businesses. I do not believe that the digital asset industry, despite the economic benefits that will come from innovation and entrepreneurship, will rise to fill a potential gap in community bank lending. Therefore, before proceeding to final passage of the Clarity Act, the Senate should preemptively protect community banks from deposit flight by implementing changes to section 10404 to ensure that the prohibition on interest and yield cannot be cleverly evaded. I also remain concerned with how the Clarity Act may impact law enforcement and national security. We know that scammers, drug cartels, terrorists, rogue states, and criminals of all kinds use cryptocurrency platforms to hide and launder money.”
Senate16 September 2026Source ↗
“First, we must ensure that digital asset third parties, such as crypto exchanges, cannot take advantage of loopholes in section 10404 to offer interest or yield-like payments on stablecoin balances. The Clarity Act should allow rewards to be generated to customers for transactions and similar activities while clearly prohibiting reward payments that are simply a workaround to provide yield or interest on a customer's balance in their stablecoin wallet. I do not believe the current text adequately prevents these types of rewards. If the yield and interest loopholes are not closed, community banks in Texas and across the Nation are at risk of facing significant deposit flight. Many community banks operate at high loan-to-deposit ratios, and if these banks' deposits start to slip away, their lending capacity will be immediately impacted.”
Senate16 September 2026Source ↗
“Madam President, yesterday, I voted to proceed to debate on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, legislation to provide oversight for the digital asset industry. This is an important bill to protect investors, provide clear rules of the road, and promote innovation and entrepreneurship. However, I remain concerned about the bill's impact on community banks and law enforcement activities.”
Senate16 September 2026Source ↗
“Despite the limited need for helium in Russia, reports indicate that Russia is still increasing its helium production at multiple plants. This increase in production contributes to Russia's long-term strategy to export helium, which will help to continue financing Russian aggression in Ukraine. Helium is a vital industrial gas used in superconducting magnets, advanced lasers for medical technology, rocket fuel and missile guidance systems, and manufacturing for critical parts of our information infrastructure such as fiber optics and semiconductors. We must ensure these critical industries do not rely on Russian helium and unwittingly provide financial lifelines to Putin.”
Senate7 August 2026Source ↗
“Mr. President, Mr. Fetterman and I appreciate the work being done to advance the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, H.R.5334, in the Senate. This bill will honor Senator Graham's legacy, help dismantle Putin's war machine, and strengthen the U.S. national security. This legislation aims to shut down various revenue streams Russia uses to continue its unprovoked war against Ukraine, and we must consider how it can be most effectively implemented. Helium is a byproduct of natural gas and has largely been produced in the United States, Qatar, and Algeria. However, Russia has been catching up. Russia has doubled its helium production since the beginning of the war and is now the third largest producer of helium in the world.”
Senate7 August 2026Source ↗
“And one of the things that I learned back, years ago, when I had a protective detail and I was the whip, is my Capital Police officer said there is this phenomenon, which I never fully appreciated before. If you think about it, some of these mass shootings are actually an act of suicide themselves because these shooters go into these situations, knowing--or likely knowing--that they will never make their way out of it. But they don't have the courage to take their own life. They need to take other people down with them, and there is a phenomenon called death by cop, where they know that by engaging a law enforcement officer, that they ultimately will be killed of necessity by the law enforcement officer to prevent causing more harm. But I want to ask just one last question.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
“But the one reason we are here in the Senate, the one reason I am proud to be here is because we are willing to take on some of these hard, complex issues on occasion and to try to come up with tangible results that benefit our constituents and all the American people. So I yield to Senator Tillis.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
“Parents may not know when they interact with security systems at the entrance of their child's preschool that they are actually benefitting from this law, but the BSCA has made a difference, and it will continue to do so. So I am proud, working together with Senator Tillis and Senator Sinema and Senator Murphy, that we were able to accomplish this even in the face of organized opposition. What I did learn--and maybe it shouldn't have been a surprise to me-- is that there are cottage industries in Washington, DC, that spread misinformation about legislation that is actually challenging to pass because it does involve something like a constitutional right--the Second Amendment--but strictly they do it for the purposes of raising money from their membership for using in political campaigns.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
“We literally made the single largest investment when we passed this law 4 years ago of community-based mental healthcare and made our schools safer for all of our children so they can focus on why they are in school in the first place: to learn. And parents don't have to worry at home about is my son or my daughter going to be safe, all the while protecting the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. So as I reflect back on my time here in the U.S. Senate, there are a few legislative accomplishments I have made that have helped the people of Texas and our country at large--at least I hope that is the case-- but out of all of these, the BSCA was one of the most critical in tangibly making the country safer for families and children.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
“But this is one of the reasons why I was a vocal critic of President Biden's open border policies which allowed millions of people to come into the country, including some criminals and cartel members. It is the reason why I opposed the ``defund the police'' movement that left a wave of unchecked violence and crime in America's blue cities. And that is why working together with Senator Tillis, Senator Sinema, and Senator Murphy, we made sure we passed a law which actually would invest in mental health resources to identify individuals who were suffering before they became a danger to themselves or others.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
“Now because of this law, the Department of Justice has a tool to combat cartel violence and prosecute individuals who engage in firearms trafficking. Indeed, the Department of Justice has convicted 459 criminals under the straw purchasing and firearms trafficking laws-- 459--while another 716 violent criminals are currently facing charges under this law. So we all want our communities to be safe, but we also want to make sure that we respect the rights of law-abiding citizens; and no law we would pass restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens, were we to do so, would make a difference. No law-abiding citizen is a threat to their community.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
“These individuals would have never been discovered before the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act. States agree with its efficacy, including Texas, which passed the law soon after the BSCA passed to ensure that juvenile mental health records would be available to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. This leads me to another important provision in the BSCA, which gives the Department of Justice tools to prosecute individuals for straw purchases. So, for example, if a drug dealer knows that his or her criminal conviction would disqualify them from purchasing a firearm legally, they can't get their boyfriend or girlfriend to buy it for them without violating the law.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
“That information must now be available on the National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The BSCA incentivizes States to upload these juvenile records, but it places a strict time limit on how long the review process can take place. If a determination is not made in that window, the purchase proceeds. Interestingly, far less than 1 percent of firearms background checks are affected by the checks for under 21-year-old buyers that this bill deals with, but yet we know that it has made a real difference. There was the 18-year-old attempting to purchase a long gun in Nebraska who as a minor made terroristic threats and was placed in a mental institution, or the 20-year-old drug dealer with a juvenile felony adjudication who attempted to purchase a long gun in Arizona.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
“Only 4 percent of the total money appropriated was obligated to red flag-related activities--4 percent--in States with existing red flag laws, and those States now had to comply with the law so a stricter due process standard applied. The vast majority of BSCA funds have gone, instead, to State mental health programs, veterans courts, as I mentioned, crisis intervention, school safety measures. The only States to implement a new red flag law were two States that already had begun the process to pass one before the BSCA passed. So the BSCA--Bipartisan Safer Communities Act--did not cause or leave any State to pass new red flag laws. What we did is made it harder for those laws to be abused in those States that had them by providing for this enhanced level of due process protection of this Second Amendment constitutional right.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
“Our legislation created this due process framework that I know you will hear more about from Senator Tillis, but I knew that my State, Texas, would never pass a State red flag law, and the last thing I was going to do was to support or embrace a red flag law, national law, that would preempt Texas law. So we wanted to make sure that the funding that was available was available for crisis intervention programs, veterans courts, mental health courts--just to use a couple of examples--that did not have those red flag laws while making sure those States that did could not gain access to this money unless they provided an enhanced due process procedure. So it is false to argue that the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act created an incentive for more States to pass new red flag laws, and the statistics bear it out.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
“One of the things I heard most in the recent campaign I ran in was that we had passed a red flag law which would make it possible for an aggrieved partner or spouse or family member or maybe even a neighbor to basically turn in somebody and have their firearms confiscated without due process of law. We decided upfront that although some States did have red flag laws, that No. 1, it was important that there be appropriate due process requirements before they can access any of the resources in this law and, secondly, that there not be a national red flag law--leave this up to the States. The truth is, the BSCA actually makes it harder to implement red flag laws because you can't do so and access this money unless you enhance the due process protections that are necessary to protect what is a constitutional right.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
“Now, of course, there has been a lot of misunderstanding living in the world we live in with social media and officeholders and would-be officeholders running in political campaigns. There is a lot of misunderstanding about what this law did and what it did not do. For example, some have described this bill as a gun control law, which it is not. So, today, together with my colleague--our colleague-- Senator Tillis of North Carolina, who is a great partner in this legislation, we want to address some of the widespread misconceptions about the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and just set the record straight.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
“The BSCA, as it is called, also expanded certified community behavioral health clinics around the country, which has allowed mental health clinics to expand their coverage to include not only mental health but substance abuse disorders. We have all come to be aware of the fact that we simply have not treated or provided the resources for people suffering from mental health challenges that are necessary to help them not only get better but prevent them from descending into self-harm or harm to others. There are now more than 500 community-based mental health centers operating in 46 States, and additional States have added to the CCBHC Demonstration Program recently announced by the Health and Human Services Secretary, Secretary Kennedy, that was directly linked to this law that we passed 4 years ago.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
“Texas, like all the States, has received significant amounts of money; in the case of Texas, hundreds of millions of dollars from this law--more than $312 million, to date, to strengthen our mental health care and school hardening--to make it more difficult for violent individuals to attack soft targets like schools typically have been but no more. Universities use these resources to partner with local school districts to provide training for mental health professionals to support students, and school districts have used these resources to upgrade their security systems, to implement threat alert systems, and improve emergency response plans. I saw some of these firsthand when I visited R.L. Paschal High School in Fort Worth, which received more than $350,000 for specialized emergency radios and safety upgrades.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
“Now, the Senate does not ordinarily operate at that sort of speed, I can assure you, as we all know, but we wrote this law carefully and deliberately to ensure no law-abiding citizen's Second Amendment rights would be impaired. To be plain, if you didn't suffer from a mental illness or you weren't a criminal, you would not be affected by this law. That was true then, and it is true today. What this bill did do is made a historic investment in mental health and school safety and commonsense measures to prevent dangerous individuals from being a harm to themselves and others.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
“But some of these proposals, obviously, were unacceptable to me, personally, but they, as I said, failed to address the problems that we have seen in these school shootings in a way that would be meaningful. The best solution, in my view, was that we needed to find some way to come to grips with the mental health crisis in our country and particularly that affecting young people and, in this case, in the wake of COVID and the isolation many of these young people had. But we also knew that we needed to be narrow and specifically tailor policy changes that would save those lives. So we worked together and passed a bill called the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, which passed the Senate on June 23 and was signed into law June 25 of 2022, 32 days after the shooting.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
“As negotiations continued, there was pressure mounting from some corners of this Chamber to do things that maybe sounded pretty good, but they wouldn't actually change the results or maybe they would be unconstitutional in depriving law-abiding citizens of their Second Amendment rights. During the meetings that we had together, I think we concluded that if we actually wanted to be successful in doing something that would make a difference and save lives, that we couldn't just try to do something that perhaps was a good press release or might make the evening news; we actually had to do something that would be meaningful and that would result in saving lives. I have long been a champion of Second Amendment rights. That is probably no surprise. Texans believe in the Second Amendment.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
“In the days that followed, we heard from many Americans--Texans, North Carolinians, and folks all around the country--saying that no parent should ever have to send their child to school wondering will that child be safe, and no child should have to go to school wondering if they were going to be a victim of a mass shooting. We knew that whatever we did, it would not bring back those teachers and innocent children from the act of pure evil that unfolded on May 24, 2022. But we knew that--Senator Tillis, Senator Sinema, Senator Murphy, and I took on the task of trying to come up with a bill that would actually make a difference, that would save lives. But we knew we had to do it consistent with the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, but we felt like we could make some progress and save lives.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
“Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent to enter into a colloquy with the Senator from North Carolina Senator Tillis.”
Senate14 July 2026Source ↗
“I look forward to working with him and all of our colleagues to help make America great again by ensuring that America, once again, leads the world in not just the mining but the refining and processing of these critical minerals. I yield the floor.”
Senate29 April 2025Source ↗
“They are working in concert with other adversaries of the United States today to try to undermine the West, including the United States. It is imperative for the United States to ensure that our supply chains for rare earth minerals are secure. From iPhones that allow us to send and receive emails and text messages to cars that we drive to work or take our children to school, even the drones that now increasingly deliver our ``snail mail,'' rare earth minerals are critical to modern life--again, very analogous to what advanced semiconductors proved to be in recent years. President Trump has brought this issue to the forefront of our national conversation, and I am eager to take up that conversation and to work with my colleagues here on both sides of the Capitol, on both sides of the aisle, to deal with this critical vulnerability.”
Senate29 April 2025Source ↗
“This legislation also directs the Secretary of the Interior to create a strategy to collaborate with our allies and partners to advance mining refining, separation, and processing technologies as well as sharing our intellectual property. We know there is one thing that China hates to do: It is to play by the rules. They refuse to do so. They are absolutely ruthless in stealing American ideas and technology whenever they can. This legislation will help direct our allies and partners to get ahead of them by working together to share resources and intellectual property to develop and process these critical minerals. It is no secret that China poses the greatest strategic threat to the United States and indeed to world peace.”
Senate29 April 2025Source ↗
“This Executive order will dovetail with legislative efforts that we are working on here in the Senate. I have introduced legislation that would address this issue called, unsurprisingly, the Critical Minerals Security Act. This legislation would require the administration and subsequent administrations to create a process to assist U.S. companies wishing to divest from critical mineral operations in a foreign company to identify a purchaser who is not an adversary. With China as eager as ever to buy up all the critical mineral operations in neighboring countries, if an American investor is looking to sell their interests in critical minerals, my legislation would help them avoid selling their assets to a foreign adversary, particularly to China.”
Senate29 April 2025Source ↗
“Yes, there has been a lot written about critical minerals, including rare earth elements, but the focus is not so much on mining these essential elements or materials, it is actually processing them that is turning them into functional units. And China does about 90 percent of that in the world. I am grateful to the President for recognizing the importance of this issue. Last week, he signed an Executive order on unleashing America's offshore critical minerals and resources, which directs the Secretary of Commerce to expedite the reviewing and permitting process to mine in deep seabeds. In addition, the order directs the Interior Secretary and the Energy Secretary to work together to identify new partnership opportunities with the private sector and allied nations to continue developing these critical mineral capabilities.”
Senate29 April 2025Source ↗
“The Trump administration has made securing our supply chains for critical minerals a top priority, and I am one of their strongest partners in this effort. American companies, with Texas presences like MP Materials, have been a critical part of that strategy, and it is a step in establishing a stable and secure alternative to China to supply these minerals to industries and manufacturers across our Nation. In fact, MP Materials has recently halted exports of rare earth concentrate to China and accelerated their production in the United States. But here is where I think most people miss the real story.”
Senate29 April 2025Source ↗
“In fact, the opposite is true; it has made us less safe and threatened our economy as well as our national security. At this time, China is involved in what some might call old-fashioned mercantilism when it comes to these critical minerals. They will do anything to preserve their near-monopoly on processing these rare earth minerals that are vital to everything in modern life. In my tour of the MP Materials factory, I learned that, basically, China will give away their product rather than have to compete on a level playing field, mainly to undermine any effort for us to establish an alternative processing operation here in the United States. But the good news is that this rather grim picture does not have to be where the story ends.”
Senate29 April 2025Source ↗
“Again, COVID woke up a lot of us with regard to the vulnerability of our supply chains, and certainly advanced semiconductors was one of those. The rare earth mineral processing is another. The ability to produce critical minerals and process them here at home is a critical step to safeguarding our supply chains from the Chinese Communist Party. There are risks from relying substantially on our greatest strategic adversary, China, for the production and manufacturing of these resources. America used to have dominance in this area, not unlike semiconductors and quantum computing. In fact, we were, at one point, the largest producer of rare earth elements in the world, from the 1960s until about 1985. That was when China entered the picture and began ramping up their rare earth mining and processing capabilities.”
Senate29 April 2025Source ↗
“From our iPhones to the cars we drive, even our washing machines, without the magnets that these minerals produce, society would come to a screeching halt, as dependent as we are on electricity and everything driven by electricity. Naturally, the work of this company, MP Materials, has implications not only for the Texas economy but for our entire Nation's national security. It reminds me a little bit of the epiphany we had post-COVID that we were almost completely dependent on Asia for advanced semiconductors and the fact that America once held a leading role in manufacturing these advanced semiconductors that basically ran everything with an off and on switch. But we have become almost entirely dependent on Taiwan and South Korea to produce these advanced semiconductors.”
Senate29 April 2025Source ↗
“Their mine is in California, but they actually process them in Texas and turn them into magnets. You may wonder, What is the big deal? Why are magnets so important? Well, if you think about it, magnets are involved in almost every type of electric motor, whether it is for commercial applications or national security applications. In particular, MP Materials produces these magnets for General Motors as well as essential components for various vehicles, drones, robotics, electronics, aerospace, and defense systems. When we talk about critical minerals, there is a lot of confusion because it sounds pretty technical. But it has real-world impact on everyday Americans, on our economy, and on our national security.”
Senate29 April 2025Source ↗
“Critical Minerals Security Act Mr. President, we were all back home in our States during these last 2 weeks, and one visit I made during this trip back home was to visit the Fort Worth site of a company called MP Materials, a facility that has aptly been nicknamed ``Independence.'' This impressive plant is the Nation's first fully integrated rare earth metal alloy and magnet manufacturing facility. Not only is this the first of its kind in America, it is the largest producer of rare earth minerals in the Western Hemisphere.”
Senate29 April 2025Source ↗
“I have been working here in the Congress, as have my colleagues both in the Senate and the House, particularly our Texas delegation in the House of Representatives, to get them to live up to their responsibilities, and I think we have come to realize that the current treaty, which was signed back in 1944, has become obsolete; that we need some interim measures and metrics to ensure that there are regular annual water deliveries for Texas and our agricultural industry. But yesterday's announcement was an important step forward doing just that. And, again, I thank the President, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Deputy Secretary of State, and the Secretary of State for their efforts to secure this important and long-overdue payment of water to south Texas.”
Senate29 April 2025Source ↗
“But their habit has been to delay the delivery of that water until the end of the 5-year period of the treaty. Obviously, in the interim, Mexican farmers have the water they need to grow the crops they need to grow and leave Texas agriculture high and dry. But it is important that we get this water flowing again because Mexico has repeatedly refused to comply with the terms of the treaty in a timely manner. We worked with the Biden administration. I remember talking to Secretary Blinken and introducing legislation, talking to my colleagues across the aisle about coming up with some carrots and sticks that we might be able to use to get Mexico to live up to its responsibilities, but the Biden administration really wasn't particularly interested in solving the problem.”
Senate29 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, I want to start my remarks today by thanking President Trump, Secretary Rollins, Secretary Rubio, and Deputy Secretary of State Landau for their efforts in securing a new agreement with the country of Mexico to send much needed water to South Texas. This has been a longstanding problem. I remember years ago being in Mexico City when I was attorney general of Texas talking about getting the Mexican Government to live up to their responsibilities under this treaty, which requires them to deliver water to the United States on a regular basis.”
Senate29 April 2025Source ↗
“Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.”
Senate29 April 2025Source ↗
“This is really about lifting up hard-working men and women across the country. The tax cuts are about helping every hard-working American achieve their dreams. If President Trump's tax cuts are not extended, as I say, virtually everybody or at least a significant supermajority of American working families will see a tax increase. Texans specifically will see taxes increase about $3,000 on average. I am sure every single one of my constituents can think about somewhere better to spend that $3,000 than to write a check to the IRS. Small business owners like many of the folks that I met with these last 2 weeks would see tax hikes of nearly 50 percent, and working families could see their child tax credit cut in half, along with the standard deduction, which was dramatically increased in 2017.”
Senate28 April 2025Source ↗
“You know, I have been here working in Washington--or what I like to call the forward operating base in hostile territory--for some time now, and the truth is, you get these prevailing narratives that get repeated over and over and over again and written about by the press that simply have no basis in fact or reality. The truth is, if we fail to extend the expiring provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, 62 percent of American taxpayers will see their taxes go up. Obviously--on top of a 40-year high inflation, which has raised input costs across the board by about 20 percent or more as a result of the policies of the previous administration, that obviously would have a tremendously negative impact on our economy and the standard of living, like the folks I mentioned back home.”
Senate28 April 2025Source ↗
“The message I heard from all of these impressive Texas entrepreneurs, job creators, and pillars of the community was simple: The Trump tax cuts helped their businesses grow and flourish, providing benefits not only to themselves and their families but to their employees and their broader communities. Stories I heard from my fellow Texans like Andy, Luis, Sarah, Hortencia, Jessica, and others show how patently false the accusation is of our Democratic colleagues who somehow claim that this is just to benefit rich people. The fact of the matter is, the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is not about helping the wealthy few at the expense of ordinary Americans, contrary to the Democratic talking points.”
Senate28 April 2025Source ↗
“Then there was Jessica Delgado, who, having worked in the restaurant industry since age 16, now owns multiple restaurants, and she serves on the board of the Texas Restaurant Association and is a former chairwoman of the Texas Restaurant Foundation. Another impressive woman small business owner was Hortencia Camargo, the owner of C4 Transport and Hacienda La Hortencia and a licensed Realtor in McAllen, TX, and she is also the founder of GRASP, which advocates for safe gun storage practices around children. I also had the chance on this same panel to visit with representatives of the agricultural sector, including Dante Galeazzi--I am going to butcher Dante's name--Galeazzi, who is president and CEO of Texas International Produce Association, who emphasized to me how beneficial the Trump tax cuts were for Texas farmers and ranchers.”
Senate28 April 2025Source ↗
“Andy told me how beneficial the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was for his family business. He said that over the last 3 years, he has been able to invest $80,000 in improving his business as a result of that legislation. So if the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act is not extended at the end of this year, Andy and his employees in this small business will lose out on these benefits that have helped his business grow and thrive and provide employment for other families. I visited another place in the Rio Grande Valley, this one called 5x5 Brewing Company. This is a veteran-owned, as it sounds, brewery which is dedicated to brotherhood, tradition, and, yes, you guessed it, great beer. This tradition is reflected on their menu as many of their signature beverages have names of military significance.”
Senate28 April 2025Source ↗
“I know most of the time when we think about job creators, we think about Fortune 500 companies, but the fact is, in Texas and across the Nation, it is our small businesses that are the primary engine of job creation. In the Dallas area, I met with Andy Ellard, the owner and general manager of Manda Machine Company, a third-generation, family-owned company in Dallas. Andy's grandparents founded the company in 1950, operating the business out of a back room in their house. Eventually, when the time came for them to retire, they sold the business to their daughter and her husband, who in turn sold it to their children. Now more than seven decades later, Andy and his siblings are the third- generation owners of Manda Machine Company. Now, if that is not the American dream, I don't know what is.”
Senate28 April 2025Source ↗
“Now, as you might imagine, one of the major themes of my discussion back home was the importance of our major task at hand here in the Senate, which is extending the expiring provisions of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. While we made an important first step by passing the budget resolution in the House and the Senate, now the various committees of jurisdiction have their work cut out for them to pencil in the details of the precise policies that will then require the President's signature. I spent a great deal of time back home hearing about the importance of these tax cuts and how they have benefited not just Texas families but small businesses throughout the State.”
Senate28 April 2025Source ↗
“It is a truly impressive facility, employing more than 10,000 workers in our State and leading the world in the engineering and manufacturing of heating and air-conditioning products. I also visited Alliance, TX, which is actually in Tarrant County or Fort Worth, which is now a massive, master-planned, mixed-use development in North Texas. Alliance is home to a number of important businesses, residential neighborhoods, and a thriving island inland port that boosts our country's supply chains. Located along an interstate with rail and air access, at 27,000 acres, Alliance is nearly double the size of Manhattan. From its inception in 1990 until today, Alliance has had an incredible $130 billion economic impact on our State.”
Senate28 April 2025Source ↗
“Madam President, on another matter, we have just arrived back in the Nation's Capital following a couple weeks back home, and I am glad to report that I was able to put that time to good use. It is no secret that Texas is one of the best places in the country to do business, and that was certainly confirmed by my visit back home these last couple of weeks. I had the opportunity to visit with some of our most impressive businesses, from major manufacturing facilities to local, family-owned small businesses. One such visit was to Daikin Texas Technology Park in Waller County, a suburb of Houston. There, I had the opportunity to tour their facility and attend a townhall with many of their employees.”
Senate28 April 2025Source ↗
“Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding rule XXII, at a time to be determined by the majority leader following consultation with the Democratic leader, no later than Wednesday, April 30, S.J. Res.”
Senate28 April 2025Source ↗
“Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded.”
Senate28 April 2025Source ↗