Topic - John Cornyn

• Senate Republicans aim to ease defense cuts under sequestration

  Senate Republicans on Thursday introduced a bill that would undo the first year of automatic defense spending cuts set to begin in 2013 under sequestration.

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  Inside the Beltway

  "I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian, but you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school." - Rick Perry

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  Senate panel OKs repeal of DOMA on party-line vote

  The Senate Judiciary Committee took the unprecedented step Thursday of voting to repeal a federal law that defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman and allows states to disregard same-sex unions from other states.

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  Senate panel OKs repeal of Defense of Marriage Act

  The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to repeal a federal law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, but the legislation lacks the votes for passage in either house.

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  Inside the Beltway

  The Occupy Wall Street crowd appears to have made a lasting cultural mark: The Global Language Monitor has announced that "Occupy" is the "top word of 2011," based on the number of times it was cited in about 75,000 print and electronic news sources in the past year.

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  Family of slain border agent wants Holder to take responsibility

  The family of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian A. Terry, killed by Mexican bandits at a site where investigators found weapons purchased during the Fast and Furious operation, said if Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. did not know about the investigation or its tactics, he should have and should now accept responsibility.

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  Holder: Fast and Furious 'flawed' in many ways

  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Tuesday that the Justice Department should never have allowed guns to be "walked" to drug smugglers in Mexico as part of its Fast and Furious undercover weapons investigation — saying the operation was "flawed in its concept, as well in its execution."

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  Holder on 'Fast and Furious': Never again

  Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. says an investigation of arms traffickers called "Operation Fast and Furious" was flawed in concept as well as in execution, never should have happened and "it must never happen again."

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  Cornyn urging wider probe of 'Fast and Furious'

  Sen. John Cornyn, Texas Republican and a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked Sen. Chuck Grassley and Rep. Darrell E. Issa on Monday to expand their formal "Fast and Furious" investigation to include accusations that similar gunrunning probes took place in Texas.

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  Senate tells Justice: No tax dollars for gunrunning programs

  An amendment offered by a Texas Republican to prohibit taxpayer funds from being used by the Justice Department to conduct gunrunning investigations similar to the failed "Fast and Furious" operation passed unanimously Tuesday in the Senate with bipartisan support.

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  MILLER: Democrats resist another Obama stimulus

  It's not just the American people who are abandoning President Obama in droves. Polls show "The One" has become "Number Two" when matched up against Mr. Generic Republican. Now even Mr. Obama's best friends are growing similarly uneasy with his policy proposals.

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  MILLER: Calling Buffett's bluff

  President Obama still thinks taxes need to be raised because the ultra-wealthy CEO of Berkshire Hathaway isn't paying enough to Uncle Sam. "If you've done well - I've done well - then you should do a little something to give something back," Mr. Obama said while standing under a Cincinnati bridge on Thursday. He was so fired up he slipped and accidentally told the truth: "All I'm saying is that Warren Buffett's secretary should not be paying a lower tax rate on her income than Warren Buffett."

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  U.S. selling JDAM guided bombs to Taiwan

  The Pentagon on Wednesday announced it's selling "smart bombs" and other high-tech arms to Taiwan.

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  Arms sale to Taiwan may fray China ties

  The Pentagon is bracing for some cutbacks in military and other cooperation efforts with China as a result of a new arms package for Taiwan, expected to be announced formally this week.

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  Texas execution halted amid Supreme Court review

  A black man convicted of a double murder in Texas 16 years ago was at least temporarily spared from lethal injection when the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review his lawyers' claims that race played an improper role in his sentencing.

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