John Cornyn

Congressional leaders intensified rhetoric on Wednesday over the impending government shutdown, with just two days remaining before federal funding expires at midnight on Friday. What Happened: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) declared that Democrats are unified behind a “clean...

Republican members of the Senate chose John Thune (R-S.D.) to be the next Senate Majority Leader, a position that comes as the Republican Party won control of the Senate in the 2024 election. What Happened: Thune, who has been a member of the Senate since 2005, won a secret vote among Republican...

Senior U.S. Senator John Cornyn visited Tesla Inc’s (NASDAQ:TSLA) Gigafactory in Texas on Monday and met with CEO Elon Musk. What Happened: The Texas Republican senator thanked Musk for the visit in a post on X social media platform and said, “Everything is bigger in the Lone Star State...

A Republican senator stopped short of saying his colleague, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) was dabbling in magic realism, the style created by the late Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, which paints a realistic view of the modern world while adding...

Senate negotiators have reportedly reached a tentative deal on gun control legislation, which includes updates to background check requirements for gun purchasers. What Happened: The chief negotiators of the proposed legislation, Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Connecticut, and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas...

Benzinga is covering every angle of how the coronavirus affects the financial world. For daily updates, sign up for our coronavirus newsletter. Billionaire investor Mark Cuban on Tuesday criticized senators from both Republican and Democratic parties for stalling the approval of novel coronavirus (...

Congressional Republicans proposed a Zika-virus funding package valued at $1.1 billion that was ultimately blocked by Democrats and shot down. A vote failed 52 to 48 to advance the legislation. According to the Washington Post, the bill contained politically motivated language against Planned...