Word: cornyn
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...border-state Democrats start to shift to the right, bucking many members of their own party, the G.O.P. is split between those who want tougher security first and those who seek comprehensive reform. That split is spelled out in two competing Senate proposals: one sponsored by Texas' John Cornyn and fellow Republican Jon Kyl of Arizona would require illegals to leave the country to apply for work visas and would fund 1,250 more customs and border-patrol agents and $5 billion worth of cameras and sensors along the border. A more lenient bipartisan plan from Arizona's John McCain...
...President Bush has admitted recently in private talks that he made a mistake in how he approached the issue at the start of the year and that he will focus more on the problem of illegal crossings, even as he pushes for a guest-worker program. "The message," says Cornyn, "has been gotten." --By Terry McCarthy. With reporting by Perry Bacon Jr. and Nancy Harbert
...G.O.P. opponents may have another gambit up their sleeve. To gain a surer vote on abortion and other hot-button conservative issues, they are proposing that Bush appoint John Cornyn, a conservative Texas Senator and former judge, to the court instead of Gonzales--and fill Cornyn's Senate seat with Representative Henry Bonilla, a Mexican American, in an effort to appeal to Latinos who back Gonzales. The battle will only grow more complicated if Chief Justice William Rehnquist retires, as he reportedly is planning to do, and opens up yet another court vacancy...
...sentence in prison--no possibility of parole for 40 years. That wasn't enough for many Texans, who were furious: Ruiz's widow Bernadette and his boss, the county sheriff, were both quoted in the American-Statesman as criticizing the decision not to seek death. Texas attorney general John Cornyn, who was in the midst of a successful campaign to become a U.S. Senator, publicly attacked Earle. Nor was Delamora pleased; he is appealing...
TEXAS Republican attorney general John Cornyn defeated Ron Kirk despite the Dallas mayor's moderate record...