Honorable John Cornyn
United States Senator, Texas, Republican
Senator Cornyn was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2002. He served as San Antonio District Court Judge from 1984 to 1990, on the Texas Supreme Court from 1990 to 1997, and as Texas Attorney General from 1998 to 2002. He sits on the following committees: Finance, where he chairs the Subcommittee on International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness; Judiciary, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration; and the Select Committee on Intelligence. The following is from the October 24, 2017, Senate floor debate on H.J. Res. 111, disapproving the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule relating…