| Cornyn voted to limit the enrollment period for Medicare Part D.
Cornyn voted against increasing the Medicaid rebate for producing generics.
Cornyn voted against giving the government authority to negotiate bulk discount purchases for Medicare prescription drugs.
Cornyn voted against $40 billion per year for limited a Medicare prescription drug benefit.
Cornyn is rated 0% by APHA, indicating an extremist anti-public health voting record.
Cornyn is rated 10% by the ARA, indicating a radical anti-senior voting record.
Cornyn voted to limit hospital and nursing home negligence responsibility to $250,000 no matter how badly the patient is hurt.
Here’s Cornyn in his own words: “I don’t know if there is a cause-and-effect connection but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country,” Sen. Cornyn said. “Certainly nothing new, but we seem to have run through a spate of courthouse violence recently that’s been on the news and I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception in some quarters on some occasions where judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in - engage in violence.”
Cornyn voted against $3.1B for emergency oil assistance for hurricane-hit areas.
Cornyn voted against setting a goal of reducing oil usage by 40% by 2025.
Cornyn voted against targeting 100,000 hydrogen-powered vehicles by 2010.
Cornyn opposes global warming treaties.
Cornyn voted to drill in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge.
Cornyn voted to allow an oil leasing program in AMWR.
Cornyn voted against including oil & gas smokestacks in mercury regulations.
Cornyn is rated 0% by the League of Conservation Voters, indicating radical anti-environment record.
Cornyn is rated 100% by the Christian Coalition indicating an extremist theocratic record.
Cornyn is rated 0% by NARAL, indicating a radical anti-choice voting record
Cornyn voted for the homophobic constitutional ban of same-sex marriage.
Here’s Cornyn in his own words: “It does not affect your daily life very much if your neighbor marries a box turtle. But that does not mean it is right. Now you must raise your children up in a world where that union of man and box turtle is on the same legal footing as man and wife.”
Cornyn voted against $52M for 21st century community learning centers, against $5B for grants to local educational agencies, and against closing $11B from corporate welfare though tax loopholes to education.
Cornyn is rated 27% by the National Education Agency, indicating anti-public education record.
Cornyn voted against establishing a guest worker program.
Cornyn voted against allowing undocumented workers participate in Social Security.
Cornyn voted against giving guest workers a path to citizenship.
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