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Stop Online Piracy Act Stopped – For Now

February 14, 2012 at 5:02 pm in Accountability, GAN, John Cornyn, News, Senate by Kim Robinson · Tags: , , , , , ,

Amidst growing opposition, the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), H.R. 3261, was stopped in its tracks on January 20, 2012, due to pressure from Internet giants Google, Amazon, Yahoo and others.  The House Judiciary Committee plans to take up the act were cancelled, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-NV, called off a vote on…

Cornyn Ends Funding of Fast and Furious

November 6, 2011 at 8:07 pm in Accountability, GAN, John Cornyn, News, Senate by Kim Robinson · Tags: , , , ,

Senator John Cornyn, R-TX and member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has been out in front of the failed Operation Fast and Furious, a federal operation launched to track sales of illegal weapons, since the story broke. The operation resulted in the possession of thousands of American weapons by Mexican drug cartels and in the…

October 6, 2011 at 8:05 pm in Accountability, GAN, John Cornyn, News, Senate by Kim Robinson · Tags: , , , ,

During the past three months Sen. John Cornyn, R-TX, member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has publicly denounced Attorney General Eric Holder for his statement to Congress that he was unaware of the administration’s gun-walking operation, Fast & Furious. Holder has been silent on the topic of his responsibility for weapons sold under a “tracking”…