The House of Representatives passed the Innovation Act, a bill to reduce abusive patent litigation. I introduced the Patent Abuse Reduction Act in the Senate earlier this year.
Abusive patent litigation poses a direct threat to Texas innovators and job-creators, and I applaud the House for passing a bipartisan bill to curb lawsuits that are causing serious harm to our economy. Read more about Senator Cornyn Praises Passage of House Patent Bill
A federal system of government is often referred to as a laboratory for democracy. This reference holds because local governing bodies are allowed to vary in their policy decisions so that different policies can be tried out and the successful ones gain wider adoption and the failures are abandoned. With that being the case, we can assess, in part, one consequence of term limits using this method. The hypothesis I put forth is that term limits will allow elected officials to move to their ideological extreme in the official’s final term.
America was founded on the principle of government by the people and for the people. But too often, the federal government just gets in our way. To see a recent example, we need look no further than the failed launch of the Obamacare website. But the website is just a symptom of a much larger problem—an ever expanding federal government without limits. Read more about The Federal Government's Continuous Overreach
Texas is playing musical chairs because many of the Republican state wide offices are being vacated. The fact that Governor Rick Perry will not seek re-election left his seat wide open. Greg Abbott the current Texas Attorney General is running for Governor as are three others including the former Work Force Commissioner Tom Pauken. Ken Paxton is one of three vying for the office of Texas Attorney General and is considered to be the most conservative of the three because of his unfailing stance on principle. The other two candidates for attorney general are Barry Smitherman and Dan Branch. Read more about TexasGOPVote Blogger Endorsements: Ken Paxton Strong for Texas
Oftentimes it is the subtle things an elected official does that reveals their true conservative nature. For example, when Republicans like Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Charles Grassley (R-IA), Johnny Isakson (R-GA) and 17 other allegedly conservative senators voted to confirm Eric Holder as Attorney General in 2009, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) helped lead the opposition and voted against Holders confirmation. This year, when the Democrats were pushing immigration reform that did not include measurable and verifiable border security measures, Cornyn introduced an amendment to lock down measurable and verifiable border security measures and when Democrats killed that, he voted against the Gang of 8 immigration bill. Read more about Senator John Cornyn Interview - Part 2 - Immigration Reform, Border Security and Eric Holder
One big issue to be sorted out before the end of 2013 is our budget. As you know, the Senate finally agreed to form a Conference Committee with the House to come to a resolution on our budget. The aim is to produce a plan to fund the government for the rest of FY2014. The Committee has set a goal of reaching an agreement by December 13. If they don’t meet that self-imposed deadline, there are no immediate consequences. But on January 15, we come up against a hard deadline. That’s when the current continuing resolution expires. Read more about 2013 Budget Discussion
On top of all of Obamacare’s flaws, website glitches, insurance price mark-ups, and cancelled coverage, it violates one of our most fundamental rights: freedom of religion. So I was happy to hear that this spring the Supreme Court will consider whether Obamacare violates the First Amendment.
Obamacare requires all businesses to offer insurance that covers sterilization
The House of Representatives passed the Innovation Act, a bill to reduce abusive patent litigation. I introduced the Patent Abuse Reduction Act in the Senate earlier this year.
A federal system of government is often referred to as a laboratory for democracy. This reference holds because local governing bodies are allowed to vary in their policy decisions so that different policies can be tried out and the successful ones gain wider adoption and the failures are abandoned. With that being the case, we can assess, in part, one consequence of term limits using this method. The hypothesis I put forth is that term limits will allow elected officials to move to their ideological extreme in the official’s final term.
As Chairman of the House Oversight Subcommittee on the Federal Workforce, I held a hearing earlier this week looking at the federal governments use of design-build contracts. A design-build contract is when federal agencies competitively procure both the architecture/engineering and construction of projects at the same time. 
America was founded on the principle of government by the people and for the people. But too often, the federal government just gets in our way. To see a recent example, we need look no further than the failed launch of the Obamacare website. But the website is just a symptom of a much larger problem—an ever expanding federal government without limits. 
The innovativeness of American enterprise flies off the radar.
Texas is playing musical chairs because many of the Republican state wide offices are being vacated. The fact that Governor Rick Perry will not seek re-election left his seat wide open. Greg Abbott the current Texas Attorney General is running for Governor as are three others including the former Work Force Commissioner Tom Pauken. Ken Paxton is one of three vying for the office of Texas Attorney General and is considered to be the most conservative of the three because of his unfailing stance on principle. The other two candidates for attorney general are Barry Smitherman and Dan Branch. 
Oftentimes it is the subtle things an elected official does that reveals their true conservative nature. For example, when Republicans like Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Charles Grassley (R-IA), Johnny Isakson (R-GA) and 17 other allegedly conservative senators voted to confirm Eric Holder as Attorney General in 2009, Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) helped lead the opposition and voted against Holders confirmation. This year, when the Democrats were pushing immigration reform that did not include measurable and verifiable border security measures, 
One big issue to be sorted out before the end of 2013 is our budget. As you know, the Senate finally agreed to form a Conference Committee with the House to come to a resolution on our budget. The aim is to produce a plan to fund the government for the rest of FY2014. The Committee has set a goal of reaching an agreement by December 13. If they don’t meet that self-imposed deadline, there are no immediate consequences. But on January 15, we come up against a hard deadline. That’s when the current continuing resolution expires. 
Today I sent a letter to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy
On top of all of Obamacare’s flaws, website glitches, insurance price mark-ups, and cancelled coverage, it violates one of our most fundamental rights: freedom of religion. So I was happy to hear that this spring the Supreme Court will consider whether Obamacare violates the First Amendment.
