John Cornyn
Republican · TX · U.S. Senate
Bio
John Cornyn III is an American politician and former judge who is the senior United States senator for Texas, a seat he has held since 2002. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 23.7 years
- First took office
- 2002 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 20 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 74
- Senate class
- 2 · senior senator
- Senate Minority Whip · 2013–2015
- Senate Majority Whip · 2015–2019
- Austin, TX · 512-469-6034
- Dallas, TX · 972-239-1310
- Lubbock, TX · 806-472-7533
- San Antonio, TX · 210-224-7485
- Tyler, TX · 903-593-0902
- Houston, TX · 713-572-3337
- Harlingen, TX · 956-423-0162
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $1.0M – $2.6M
- Liabilities
- $315k – $650k
- Net worth
- $392k – $2.3M
- Since 2018
- +$1.2M
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
John Cornyn's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
John Cornyn (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Cornynsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Joint Committee on Taxationcenter · 10 members
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligencecenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on the Budgetcenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Financecenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relationscenter · 22 members
- Senate Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 22 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Cornyn's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
- Good Riddance to John Cornyn and His Democrat Staffers
In perhaps the least surprising revelation of this campaign cycle, besides the epiphany that the guy with a Nazi tattoo turned out not to be very nice to women, was that the Deputy Legislative Director for nominally Republican Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) just …
Freerepublic.com · August 22, 2026 
Republican Donors Fume Over Trump Putting Texas Senate Seat at RiskPresident Trump isn’t spending any campaign cash on close midterm election races, irking his fellow Republicans and putting contests like the Texas Senate seat in jeopardy. In July, Politico reports, Trump’s MAGA Inc. super PAC didn’t spend any of its $400 mi…
The New Republic · August 21, 2026
Long-time Cornyn Aide Defects To Talarico CampaignJacob Smith is a lifetime Republican who has worked for Republicans in the House and the Senate. For the last five years, he has worked for Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) as a deputy legislative director and policy adviser. Now he is deputy policy director for Democ…
Crooksandliars.com · August 19, 2026
Talarico hires former Cornyn aide as Texas Senate battle heats upDemocratic state Rep. James Talarico is reaching across the aisle as his closely watched Senate race in Texas inches closer, hiring a former aide to outgoing Republican Sen. John Cornyn in a rare cross-party move. Talarico’s campaign announced Tuesday that Ja…
Biztoc.com · August 18, 2026
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