Sen. John Cornyn

Share this page	Birthdate: b. 02/02/1952 Birthplace: Houston, TX District: represents TX Political Party: Republican Religion: Church of Christ Education: LLM, Univeristy of Virginia Law School, 1995 JD, Saint Mary's School of Law, 1977 BA, Journalism, Trinity University, 1973. Last elected in 2002 receiving 2,496,243 (55.0%) votes. Official website
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Money Raised $9,114,803 (#4) Spent 39% (#511) From self 0% (#34) From individuals 72% (#70) From PACs 19% (#494) PAC = Political Action Committees. Money data from the FECfor the 200X cycle.	Earmarks Requested 111 (#46) Total cost $714,623,280 (#26) Received 97 (#50) Total cost $505,174,280 (#11) Data for fiscal year 2008 from Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Voting Analysis Ideology 58% right-wing (#76) Predictable 93% (#260) Data and terminology from VoteView. Unpredictable measures how often members vote against their party. Speeches Spoke 35 times (#12) Avg. length 1,519 words (#74) Data for 110th Congress from GovTrack.	Bills Co-sponsored 451 (#437) Introduced 85 (#190) Debated 13 (#164) Enacted 2 (#283) Data from GovTrack.
Interest Group Alignment Interest Group Alignment compares a politician’s votes to positions taken by interest groups. [ more ] Group Agreement U.S. Chamber of Commerce 40% (2/5 votes) More interest groups → Data from Maplight.org , for the 11Xth Congress.
Handshakes Handshakes are funds that are donated to a politician by a employees of a company, and flow back out to the same company. Earmark Recipient Donations Earmarks Cycle Lamar University $250 $2400000 2008
Top Contributors Individuals reporting the same zip code who have donated to a lawmaker's political campaign. Use with caution: based on raw FEC data. 1 H R Mr Jr Perot $25,000 on August 2, 2007 2 Ned S Mr Holmes $25,000 on July 25, 2007 3 Richard C. Slack $15,000 from November 1, 2007 to March 6, 2008 4 Walter Negley $14,600 on November 13, 2007 5 Meredith J. Long $14,600 on November 1, 2007 More contributors → Source: FEC data from the 1980 to 2000 election cycles.
Top Contributor Employers Campaigns disclose the employers of their contributors; this list aggregates them. Use with caution: this list is based on raw FEC data 1 Self $1,269,870 2 Retired $606,013 3 Homemaker $462,000 4 Housewife $328,125 5 Student $40,750 More contributors → Source: FEC data from the 1980 to 2000 election cycles.
Top Lobby Contributors New rules require lobbyists to disclose their giving, and giving by the PACs they control. Use with caution: This data compiled from raw filings 1 H.R. Bert Pena - Mr. H.R. Bert Pena $1,600,000 2 Mr. Roland L. Panneton - National Association Of Insurance And Financial Advisors $5,000 3 Mrs. Dawn Starling - Southwest Airlines Pilots' Association (Swapa) $5,000 4 Mark H. Richardson - Southwest Airlines Pilots' Association (Swapa) $5,000 5 Mr. Walter Price - Wachovia Corporation $5,000 More lobby contributors → Source: Senate Office of Public Records LD-203 disclosure database; data from 2008.
Some campaign finance information from Open Secrets.

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Also known as: 300027 (GovTrack), N00024852 (OpenSecrets), C001056 (Congressional Bio), 40305 (ICPSR), (Vote Smart), S2TX00106 (FEC)