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...

Senators Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and John Cornyn (R-TX) joined a chorus of criticism against state-legal marijuana markets and the pending cannabis banking reform legislation. Their remarks are part of the ongoing debate surrounding marijuana policy, which will likely shift following Tuesday's...

In the hallowed chambers of the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, a testy exchange took place between Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra. The bone of contention was the proposed rescheduling of marijuana under federal law. Cornyn grilled...

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) joined the GOP effort to undermine the passage of a marijuana banking bill. One day after Wednesday's historic passage of the SAFE Banking Act, Grassley sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D) questioning his...

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...

History is being made on Tuesday, as Donald Trump, the first former president to face criminal charges in a court of law, is at a Miami courthouse for arraignment in a second criminal case. Although Trump is now facing 37 criminal counts related to the alleged mishandling of classified documents...

Among the numerous amendments filed to the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which the Senate plans to take up soon, are dozens related to cannabis and psychedelics. This summer, the House of Representatives approved several measures as part of the NDAA, including two...

Following a push from researchers associated with the prohibitionist group Smart Approaches To Marijuana (SAM) to advance the bipartisan that would substantially expand scientific cannabis research in the Senate, Chuck Schumer, the chamber's minority leader, kicked off the process to pass the...

A bipartisan resolution calling for the immediate release of WNBA star Brittney Griner from a Russian prison was introduced in the United States Senate last Thursday, reported ESPN.  Griner, a two-time Olympic gold medalist, has been detained since Feb. 17 and pleaded...

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...