119TH CONGRESS · U.S. SENATE

TAXPAYER RECORD & ACCOUNTABILITY DATA

SENATOR: John Cornyn
STATE: TX · Republican
1. MEMBER OVERVIEW
Chamber
United States Senate
State
TX
First Senate Service
November 30, 2002
Years in Senate
23
Current Term
January 3, 2021 – January 3, 2027
Party
Republican
Birth Date
February 2, 1952
BioGuide ID
C001056
2. COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS
  • Senate Committee on Finance
  • Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
  • Senate Committee on the Budget
  • Senate Committee on the Judiciary
  • Joint Committee on Taxation
  • Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
  • United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control — Chairman

Leadership / Special Roles:
Chairman: Senate Committee on Finance — International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness, Chairman: Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Border Security and Immigration, Chairman: United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control

3. LEGISLATIVE RECORD
Original-sponsored laws enacted
Open Congress.gov record
Sponsored legislation
Congress.gov
Cosponsored legislation
Congress.gov
Amendments / resolutions
Congress.gov

Pen to Power standard: enacted-law count is original sponsor only. Cosponsorship is kept separate.

4. FISCAL VOTING RECORD
Appropriations
See Senate roll calls
Budget resolutions
See Senate roll calls
Debt ceiling / limit
See Senate roll calls
Current roll-call source
Senate.gov

Spending, budget and debt-limit votes remain separate categories; no combined partisan score.

5. COST TO THE TAXPAYER · CUMULATIVE DURING TENURE
Congressional salary received
$4,045,118
Senate office operating funds (SOPOEA)
Official disbursement compilation
Staff payroll
Included within office-account records
State / D.C. office costs
Included within office-account records
Official travel / communications
Included within office-account records
National debt during tenure
+$33.0 trillion

Salary is personal compensation. SOPOEA and other office expenditures are taxpayer-funded operating resources, not personal income. Debt is fiscal context, not blame.

6. CAMPAIGN FINANCE
FEC Candidate ID
S2TX00106
Candidate-controlled receipts
See FEC record
Individual contributions
See FEC record
PAC / party support
See FEC record
Candidate self-funding
See FEC record
Outside spending
Kept separate · see FEC

Outside expenditures are never added to candidate-controlled receipts.

7. FINANCIAL DISCLOSURES
Disclosure source
Senate eFD
Assets
Reported ranges
Liabilities
Reported ranges
Transactions / income
Underlying filing
Positions / travel / gifts
Underlying filing

Pen to Power will not convert statutory disclosure ranges into a fabricated exact net-worth figure.

8. ATTENDANCE & VOTING PARTICIPATION
Current Senate roll calls
Senate.gov
Voting-history reference
GovTrack
Not voting / present
Source record
Comparison standard
Chamber record
9. TENURE IMPACT SNAPSHOT
Years in Senate
23
Salary received
$4,045,118
Debt change during tenure
+$33.0 trillion
Current committees
7
Committee leadership roles
3
10. OFFICIAL CONTACT
Office
517 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
Phone
202-224-2934

Official website
https://www.cornyn.senate.gov

Contact form
https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/contact

11. LINKS & SOURCES
Congress.gov
https://www.congress.gov/member/C001056

GovTrack.us
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/300027
FEC
https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/S2TX00106/

Senate Financial Disclosures
https://efdsearch.senate.gov/search/
Senate Roll Calls
https://www.senate.gov/legislative/votes_new.htm

Official Senate Website
https://www.cornyn.senate.gov
TRANSPARENCY. ACCOUNTABILITY. THE PEOPLE HAVE THE POWER.
PRIMARY SOURCES: CONGRESS.GOV · SENATE.GOV · FEC.GOV · SENATE eFD · GOVTRACK · BIOGUIDE · LAST BUILD: AUGUST 7, 2026