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Cornyn betrays Cruz,
funds Obamacare
Cornyn kills Republican filibuster, votes to fund Obamacare, blasts
Cruz for being ‘confrontational’ in chat with Democrat-leaning mag

---Sen. John Cornyn’s two
votes to fund Obamacare
sent him plunging in
polls, especially after Cornyn insulted Sen. Ted Cruz. 
---On Sept. 27, 2013, Cornyn
voted with Democrats to kill
Cruz’s filibuster of Obamacare funding (RCV 206) af-

ter Democrat leader Harry
Reid said the vote would pass
funding for Obamacare. 
---Cornyn’s vote to kill
Cruz’s filibuster followed
his Mar. 20, 2013 vote to
fund Obamacare (RCV 44.)
---Then, in July Cornyn also
(See ‘Backstab,’ P. 2) 

“I hope we’ll be less
confrontational.”

- John Cornyn, on why he
voted with Democrats to kill
the Republican filibuster

Senator Ted Cruz, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and
Texas Congressman Steve Stockman lead the Pledge of
Allegiance at a veterans’ rally near the U.S. Capitol. 

Cornyn bill puts many vets on gun ban list
Cornyn, Lindsay Graham push gun owner registry promoted by anti-gun Bloomberg, Brady
A gun control measure
pushed by anti-gun former New York City Mayor
Michael Bloomberg will
be championed by Sens.
John Cornyn and Lindsay Graham, Cornyn told

Texas Monthly in Jan. 2014.
Cornyn’s “Mental Health
and Criminal Justice Reform Act” strengthens the
NICS national database
on gun owners and boosts
(See ‘ Cornyn/Bloomberg P. 5) 

“I’m not sure what the
point is about open carry..
I’m not sure what
the attraction is for that.”
- John Cornyn on open carry

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Pro-lifers: Cornyn voteD
to fund abortion
Pro-lifers: Cornyn’s vote to fund Obamacare helps turn
Planned Parenthood into $2 billion abortion machine
Pro-life activists warn
that Sen. John Cornyn’s
multiple votes to fund
Obamacare could eventually mean $2 billion in
the pockets of the nation’s
largest abortion chain. 
“John
Cornyn
voted
to fund abortion. Would
you have voted to fund
abortion?,”
asked
one
Texas pro-life leader. 
Cornyn
voted
twice
to fund Obamacare and
help establish programs
that cover abortion, despite warnings from prolife groups it meant fund-

ing for abortion providers.
“The number of abortions
will soar when you and I
are paying for an insurance
plan that someone else
couldn’t afford that now has
abortions. Planned Parenthood is going to be more
than a $1 billion industry.
They’re going to be a $2
billion industry,” say Students for Life of America.
Cornyn also voted to
give Obamacare funds directly to Planned Parenthood. The group bragged
about one $375,000 grant
they pocketed. 

Abortion
advocate
Wendy
Davis praised the vote to
fund Obamacare. 

The Vote:
(2013 Roll Call Votes 44, 206)

John Cornyn chats with Obama
Supreme Court Justice Elena
Kagan, a supporter of Planned
Parenthood. Cornyn’s vote to
fund Obamacare means big
money for the abortion group. 

“When you and I are paying for an insurance plan that someone else
couldn’t afford that now has abortions, they’re going to go up. Planned
Parenthood is going to be more than a $1 billion industry. They’re going to
be a $2 billion industry.” - Students for Life of America

Backstab: Cornyn sells out Cruz, GOP with vote to fund Obamacare

(Cont from ‘Betray,” P. 1)
publicly stripped his name
from a letter from Republican senators pledging
not to support Obamacare
funding. 
Cornyn
told
Texas
Monthly he hoped Cruz

had “learned a lesson.” “I
hope we’ll be less confrontational,” Cornyn scolded. 
Recent
polls
show
Cornyn will not win the
March 4 Republican primary and would be forced
into a runoff election

with Cruz ally, Congressman Steve Stockman. 
Cornyn took a parting
shot at Cruz, telling Texas Monthly, “I think David Dewhurst has been a
good public servant, and
had he been elected, I don’t

think there would have
been much of a difference
in the voting record.” 
“Cornyn’s favorite trick is to vote to
send Democrat bills to floor once
Harry Reid has the votes to pass it.
Cornyn then casts his sole ‘no’ vote,
knowing it will pass anyway.”

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Cornyn caught lying to voters, voted with
Democrats to raise debt limit on Feb. 12
Cornyn tells voters he opposed Feb. 12 debt limit hike, but news reports
explain how Cornyn voted with Democrats to raise debt limit
Slate: Mitch McConnell and
John Cornyn Vote to Raise
Debt Limit (Feb. 12, 2014)

Washington Post: Congress
approves increase in debt
limit (Feb. 12, 2014)

POLITICO: Behind the scenes
of a dramatic debt vote
(Feb. 12, 2014)

Wall Street Journal: Bill Suspends Cap on Government
Borrowing (Feb. 12, 2014)

“Anyone who listened to Republican senators yesterday
could tell they were unhappy to be stuck with a “clean”
debt limit increase”... 
It got tougher after Texas
Sen. Ted Cruz, shocking
absolutely no one, said he’d
demand a cloture vote on
the bill, one that would require every Democrat and
independent and at least
five Republicans to suspend
the debt limit through the
2014 election... 
The vote was held open
for 45 minutes as Harry
Reid struggled to break
past 58 votes for passage.
Finally, Kentucky Sen.
Mitch McConnell and
Texas Sen. John Cornyn
arrived to vote “aye” and
push the bill through.” 

“Needing 60 votes, including at least five Republicans, the Senate remained stuck in the upper
50-vote range for an extended period, as Republicans stood debating which
of them would cast the unpopular vote to reach 60.  
Finally, Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (RKy.) and Minority Whip
John Cornyn (R-Tex.)
sided with the Democrats, putting them over
the 60-vote threshold. 
Soon after, a half dozen
other Republicans joined
the two leaders -- both
of whom face primary
challengers
from
their right flank who
are opposed to lifting the debt ceiling.” 

“Sen. Ted Cruz and the
GOP rank and file ultimately backed Senate Minority
Leader Mitch McConnell
and Minority Whip John
Cornyn into a corner on the
debt ceiling increase. 
The leaders had wanted to allow the toxic
measure to pass with
just 51 votes...  
...Cornyn and McConnell approached the well
of the Senate and simultaneously signaled that
they would vote “aye.”
The press gallery let
out an audible gasp. 
“It should have been a very
easy vote,” Cruz said afterward. “In my view, every
Senate Republican should
have stood together.” 

Legislation to extend
the government’s borrowing authority cleared Congress on Wednesday, ending a laborious debate that
exposed divisions among
Republicans, and putting
the debt-limit fight to rest
for more than a year...
...But the bill passed the
Senate only after a dramatic and prolonged preliminary vote that saw a
phalanx of reluctant GOP
leaders—including Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.)—vote to rescue the bill from defeat....
...After Mr. McConnell
voted for it, other Republican leaders fell in
line, including Senate
Republican Whip John
Cornyn of Texas.  

Amnesty backers invade
primary to back Cornyn
Cornyn camp running anti-Ted Cruz PAC that now smears Stockman
using a $2 million check from an illegal alien amnesty advocate

An advocate for illegal
alien amnesty is behind a
$2 million “Shady Stockman” smear campaign
that falsifies the voting
financial records of Con-

gressman Steve Stockman.
The PAC, run by a
Democrat donor, reported accepting a $2 million
check from Robert Perry, a personal friend of

Cornyn known for backing
pro-amnesty candidates. 
The group has drawn criticism from Republicans for
falsifying Stockman’s voting and financial records. 

Cornyn supporters are running
dirty
ads
smearing
Rep.
Steve Stockman, using a $2
million check from an illegal
alien amnesty advocate and
the same operatives Cornyn
used to attack Ted Cruz. 

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CORNYN MANEuVERS TO HELP Reid
pass
illegal
alien
amnesty
Cornyn voted to bring amnesty to floor knowing
it would pass, killed GOP attempt to block vote

“Senator Reid has always
felt that Senator Cornyn is
someone he can work with
on a range of issues.”
- Sen. Harry Reid
spokesman Adam Jentleson
The Votes:
2013 Roll Call Votes 146, 147

Texas Republicans are
demanding
Sen.
John
Cornyn explain why he
worked with Democrat
leader Harry Reid to pass
amnesty for illegal aliens. 
The Cornyn-passed amnesty plan was eventually
blocked in the House by
Texas Congressman Steve

Cornyn voted to give amnesty
visas to illegal aliens

Millions spent on pro-Cornyn ads after he
votes to kill GOP plan to stop amnesty
Sen. John Cornyn voted
with Democrats to give amnesty visas to illegal aliens,
and amnesty advocates have
rewarded Cornyn with millions in campaign cash. 
Cornyn
voted
with
Democrats to kill a Republican amendment to
end the “Z Visa” program
(Vitter Amdt. No. 1157 to
S1348 5/24/2007.) Z visas are awarded to illegal aliens and allow them
to work and travel freely.
Cornyn
has
been
richly rewarded for his
support for amnesty. 
Robert Perry, a promi-

Stockman’s “blue slip” resolution. Cornyn faces Stockman in a Mar. 4 Republican
primary, which polls show
Cornyn will not win. 
On June 11, 2013 Cornyn
voted
with
Democrats
to kill a Republican filibuster of Reid’s amnesty
plan after Reid assured

him Democrats had the
votes to pass it. (RCV 146)
After
thwarting
Republicans, Cornyn then
voted
with
Democrats
to proceed to a vote to
pass the plan (RCV 147.)
Cornyn’s vote to kill the
Republican filibuster outraged conservatives. 

Why is John Cornyn
giving Social Security
numbers to illegals?
Not only is Obamacare funded with $717 billion taken
from Medicare, John Cornyn’s S.1348 (2005) would
have given illegal aliens their own Social Security
numbers.

nent backer of amnesty
for illegal aliens, gave a
$2 million check which is
being spent to run “Shady
Stockman” attacks on Congressman Steve Stockman,
whom Perry wanted defeated for Stockman’s opposition to amnesty. 
The Vote: Vitter Amdt. No.
1157 to S1348 5/24/2007

Why is John Cornyn offering his own S.1348 plan to
extend Social Security programs to illegals?
Free benefits for illegals that seniors long ago paid for?

Ask Cornyn about his
plan to extend Social
Security to illegals.

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Cornyn, Linsday Graham to introduce gun
owner registry bill pushed by Bloomberg

Cornyn/Bloomberg plan could strip veterans of gun rights
if they have gone through post-combat counseling

(Cont from ‘Vets,’ P.1) 
have endorsed Cornyn’s opgovernment funding for ponent, Congressman Steve
gun control programs. 
Stockman, who has a 100%
Anti-gun activists like lifetime NRA rating. 
Bloomberg have promised ---Veterans groups also opcampaign funding to sena- pose it, as it could ban guns
tors who back the mea- for vets who had or seek
sure. A bill number has post-combat counseling. 
not yet been assigned. 
---Cornyn then took aim at
Gun groups like the Na- other gun laws. “I’m not sure
tional Association for Gun what the point is about open
Rights and Gun Owners of carry...I’m not sure what
America oppose the bill and the attraction is for that.”
The Bill: The Graham-Cornyn Mental Health and Criminal
Justice Reform Act (Bill number not yet assigned)

Cornyn BLASTS
open carry LAW
Cornyn joins Wendy Davis in questioning open carry
in interview with Democrat-leaning ‘Texas Monthly’
Texas Republicans are
outraged over Sen. John
Cornyn’s recent attacks
on open carry laws in a
Jan. 2014 gossip session
with Texas Monthly. 
“I’m not sure what
the point is about open
carry...I’m not sure what
the attraction is for that,”
said Cornyn. 
Cornyn was promoting
his bill to expand background checks on lawabiding gun owners. 

“I’m not sure what the
point is about open
carry...I’m not sure what
the attraction is for that.”
- John Cornyn on open carry

Cornyn backs Obama plan
to track Americans’ phones
After trying to stop Rand Paul’s election,
Cornyn now backs Obama’s spy plans

Sen. John Cornyn has
come out in support of
government spying on
American citizens in an
interview with liberal National Pubic Radio. 
Cornyn trumpeted his
support of presidential spy
programs, claiming Texans are “willing to make
some concessions in terms
of their personal privacy.”
Cornyn has been a
leader for Obama’s spying programs in Congress,
voting to reauthorize or
expand programs to allow
Obama to monitor Americans’ phone activity . 

“(Texans) are
willing to make some
concessions in terms of
their personal privacy.
- John Cornyn, on why
he supports spying on
Americans
The Votes:
(2011, S990, 2011S1038, 2011
HR514.) (2012 SAmdt3018,
2011 HR1540, 2011 SAmdt
1125, 2011 SAmdt1126, 2011
SAmdt1274, 2011 S990, 2011
S1038, 2011 HR 514)

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Common Core champs
praise Cornyn

Sen. John Cornyn goes on MSNBC
to find support for his views. 

Pro-Common Core teacher unions are urging their
members to keep Sen. John
Cornyn and defeat Congressman Steve Stockman.
---“We can move John
Cornyn in a way we’d never

“We can move John
Cornyn in a way we’d
never be able to move
Steve Stockman.”
- American Federation of
Teachers, which is pushing
politicians to implement
Common Core in Texas
be able to move Steve Stockman,” warned the American
Federation of Teachers. 
AFT spent $130 million
in 2012 electing pro-Common Core candidates. The
group has not revealed if
they are funding Cornyn. 

Cornyn may face
Senate ethics probe
Straight out of Alinsky: Cornyn committed
the ethics violations he accuses opponent of
False claims against
Sen. John Cornyn’s Republican opponent appear
to be a coordinated effort to
deflect any potential Senate ethics investigation of
Cornyn himself. 
Investigators plan to
forward to the Senate
Ethics Committee evidence Cornyn used his
official Senate office to
send political campaign
communications on Dec
15, 2013. 

Cornyn also confessed
he failed to fully document personal income as
required by law. 
Cornyn’s camp is now
behind a $2 million smear
campaign against Congressman Steve Stockman, funded by an illegal
alien advocate. 
The attacks, which
falsified Stockman’s record, are part of an effort to defeat conservative Republicans. 

Cornyn votes to advance Obama nomination of
pro-abortion, ‘Jesus’ banning judge

Cornyn outrages pro-life community with vote to kill GOP filibuster
of pro-abortion, anti-prayer ACORN ally nominated by Obama
A liberal judge who
banned prayers mentioning Jesus, but allowed
prayers mentioning Allah, was named to the
federal courts after Sen.
John Cornyn voted to advance his nomination. 
Cornyn voted with Democrats to block Republican
opposition to Judge David G.
Hamilton (2009 RCV 349.)
“Hamilton ruled that it
was a violation of the First
Amendment’s
Establishment Clause for the Indiana House of Representa-

tives to invoke the name of
Jesus Christ during prayer,
yet it does not violate the
Constitution to invoke the
name of Allah,” warned the
Heritage Foundation.  
Cornyn voted to advance
Hamilton’s nomination despite being also warned
Hamilton “requested clemency for a 32-year old police officer who pled guilty
to two counts of producing child pornography after videotaping his ‘consensual’ sexual activities
with two teenagers.” 

“As a District Court judge,
Hamilton promoted his
radical pro-abortion
agenda.” His promotion to
the Seventh Circuit is a
“serious concern to the
pro-life community.”
- Americans United for Life

“Judge Hamilton is
the definition of an
activist judge and is
clearly not qualified
to sit on a court of
appeals.”
- Senator Jim DeMint

The Vote: (2009 Roll Call Vote 349)
“Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Nomination of
David Hamilton to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals”

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Republicans blast Cornyn’s vote for
TARP, OBAMA’s $2 Billion tax hike
“John Cornyn has voted to
increase the debt, raise
taxes, bail out Wall Street
banks, and fund Obamacare.
He’s part of the problem in
Washington and voters
deserve an alternative.”
- Senate Conservatives
Fund’s Matt Hoskins

The Votes: 2012 Roll Call Vote 251, 2009 Roll
Call Vote 48, 2008 Roll Call Votes 96 & 213

FACT CHECKER:
Cornyn’s ‘Second Most
Conservative’ senator
claim debunked

Rating came from liberal D.C. magazine,
which often attacks Ted Cruz
.....Texans are mocking Sen.
John Cornyn’s oft-repeated claim
he is “the second most conservative U.S. Senator” after learning
it came from a liberal D.C. magazine that routinely attacks Ted
Cruz and the Tea Party. 
.....The rankings were compiled
by liberal “National Journal.”. 
.....The magazine earlier named
Sen. John McCain “the most
conservative Senator,” which appears to put Cornyn in the position of claiming he is less conservative than John McCain. 
.....The
magazine
routinely
gives its “conservative” ratings to liberal Republicans. 

Republicans are hammering Sen. John Cornyn’s
vote
with
Democrats
for
President
Barack
Obama’s $2 billion tax
hike (2012
RCV 251)
and to allow Obama to
raise the debt ceiling. 
“John Cornyn has voted to increase the debt
and
radically
expand
spending.
Would you
have voted to expand
Obama’s spending?”  
In all, Cornyn has voted
to raise the debt ceiling
eight times, according to

the
Congressional
Record (Congress.gov.) 
Cornyn also voted twice
for the TARP bailout of
banks (2008 RCVs 96, 213.)
Cornyn also voted with
Democrats for Obama’s plan
to hand out taxpayer-funded mortgages as a “stimulus” (2009 RCV 48.) 
“It’s no wonder that John
Cornyn tried to defeat Ted
Cruz and elect David Dewhurst. His record on spending means he can’t afford to
let Texans see what a real
conservative looks like.” 

Pro-gun groups
back Stockman

National pro-gun groups
like the National Association for Gun Rights and
Gun Owners of America
are backing Congressman
Steve Stockman in the
March 4 Republican primary for U.S. Senate. 
Stockman has introduced many pro-gun bills
nullifying Obama’s Executive Orders, blocking
any anti-gun UN treaty,
protecting the rights of
Cornyn’s claim to be the “sec- veterans to own guns and
ond most conservative” came
ending the Clinton gun
from a trendy D.C. magazine
ban on military bases. 
that attacks Republicans.  

“Congressman
Stockman is a
legislative
street-fighting
man who stands
solidly for our
sacred Second
Amendment.”
- Ted Nugent

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Cornyn confesses to falsifying
ethics reports to hide income
Sen. John Cornyn has
confessed to falsifying his
ethics reports for four years
to hide tens of thousands of
dollars he has been collecting in three differnt taxpayer-funded retirement
pensions, while still serving
in the Senate. 
Cornyn reported pocketing $65,383 in retirement benefits last year,
including a large pension
he previosuly hid from the
Ethics Commitee. “In a series of financial-disclosure
amendments that he be-

gan filing last July, Cornyn
disclosed that he had actually been collecting that
$10,132 annual pension
as far back as 2006. He
had not listed it on his
original disclosure reports
from 2006 to 2010,” National Journal reports. 
...Cornyn may now face a
Senate Ethics Committee
investigation into his falsification of income reports. 
...Cornyn is also facing
charges he used his offical
Senate office to broadcast
campaign communications.

fec tags cornyn on over 121
counts of phony donor info
Sen.
John
Cornyn
has filed false donor reports at least 121 times,
Federal Election Commission records reveal. 
The stunning magnitude
of false reports, which hid
donor information from
the public, has prompted
watchdogs to urge Cornyn
to comply with any FEC
or
criminal
investigation of his campaign. 
The revelation comes after

an advocate of illegal alien
amnesty wrote a $2 million
check to a former Cornyn
staffer to coordinate false
ads
against
Congressman Steve Stockman. 
That has prompted an investigation into illegal coordination between Cornyn
and the pro-Cornyn super
PAC, as well as charges the
Cornyn super PAC illegally
used court documents and
falsified voting records. 

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Reasor: Let’s fix our inner cities Stockman seeks to force full

Inner city decay is mostly caused by four main government issues:
1. Educational failure, 55% of most all city kids drop out of high
school (teachers are NOT the problem; they are so frustrated that
50% of every new teacher quits in five years. Research says they
are over worked, banned from doing what they really want to do
and trained to do and that is teach their kids. The current educational system hurts their efforts.
2. Limited or no high paying jobs the radical EPA is killing industry jobs. (Industry was our artisan and apprentice vocational high
paying jobs in and around the cities. Our U.S. cities were founded
and most are still are hubs of industrial activity. Losing control of
these industry jobs overseas has caused us to lose control over the
emissions, and even caused more pollution).
3. No ability to own the means of wealth, home or land (taxation
and property taxes continue to make ownership further out of
reach. People are taxed out of their homes in the cities. The number one reason for higher taxes is … our failed education).
4. Punishment from the government if you try to work yourself
off the assistance (in most cases earning just over $950.00 in any
month and they lose most all support).
We have gone from first in the world in the 1960’s to worst in
the world while spending the most. The more we spend, and the
harder we try, the lower we perform.
Most EdD’s truly have no idea how to solve this problem, they do
not understand what caused this; control caused this. It needs
to change, we need to first admit the problem, get past the propaganda and move forward into prosperity.
We stand for liberty, integrity and prosperity.

Cleaver: Let’s reform education

Returning the oversight of Education to the state and local level
not only eliminates money from the federal budget, it also gives
the power back to the local governing authorities and enables the
teachers themselves to have more control in the classroom.
Teachers today are severely limited due to constraints to achieve
to a certain standard as well as prevented from allowing creativity in the classroom. Children are held to strict standards and not
allowed to learn in a way that expands their creativity and their
imagination. The basics are no longer taught, but they are limited
to systems and structures driven by strict governmental standards.

Benghazi investigation

Capitol Police tried to ban Stockman staff from displaying
these photos of Benghazi’s victims outside a House Foreign
Affairs Committee hearing on the terrorist attack. 

Congressman
Steve
Stockman (R-TX 36) is
seeking to force a vote in
Congress on creating a select committee to investigate the Obama administration’s handling of the
Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate
in Benghazi, Libya. 
Following the cancellation of a House hearing
on the Benghazi attacks,
Rep. Stockman filed a discharge petition to force a
vote on Rep. Frank Wolf’s
H. Res. 36, which would
establish a Select Committee
to
investigate
the Benghazi attacks. 
“Congressman Wolf has
fearlessly led the fight for
justice on this issue. The
whole nation owes Congressman Wolf a deep debt
of gratitude. Some House
Democrats now appear to
be openly interfering with
the investigation and in-

timidating
witnesses,
which only raises more
questions about the White
House’s involvement,” said
Stockman. “The only way
we’re going to get a clean
and thorough investigation
is by forcing a vote with
a discharge petition.” 
The House Foreign Affairs Committee, of which
Rep. Stockman is a member, had originally scheduled a hearing, entitled
“Benghazi: Progress on
State Department Accountability.” The hearing was
canceled after the witnesses names were leaked. 
According to Rep. Wolf, a
Select Committee is the only
way to effectively conduct an
investigation the attacks. 
If 218 House members,
a majority of the chamber,
sign the discharge petition
H. Res. 36 would be recalled from committee and
considered on the floor. 

A discharge petition is a procedural maneuver that, if a majority
of the House sign their names, would immediately bring a bill out
of its assigned committee and to the floor for a vote.

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Stockman demands answers
on Common Core controversy
Steadfastly opposed to
federal bureaucrats rewriting education and student
privacy policies without
congressional
approval,
Rep. Steve Stockman (RTexas 36) signed on to a letter authored by Rep. Blaine
Luetkemeyer (R-MO 3) to
Education Secretary Arne
Duncan demanding information regarding the implementation of these new
policies and the authority
under which the Education
Department has acted. 
Dating back to the 1960s,
Congress has authorized
and
allocated
funding
for K-12 education policy

through the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) – the
primary vehicle for education reform on the federal level. The letter notes
since ESEA’s most recent
expiration the Education
Department has, without
any Congressional input,
moved forward with Common Core standards by enticing states with grants
and waivers to adopt Common Core standards. 
“Since the ESEA’s expiration, the Department of
Education has moved forward with education policy
reform without Congressio-

nal input. Such action is, at
best, in contravention with
precedent,” read the letter
signed by Stockman and 33
other members of the House
of Representatives. “We
believe that state-based
education policies are vital
to the successful education
of a child. As with most
one-size-fits-all
policies,
Common Core standards
fail to address the specific
needs of our states.” 
The letter also addresses
two changes in which the
government collects and
distributes student data.
Members of Congress request a detailed description

of each change to student
privacy policy that has
been made during Duncan’s tenure and the need
and intended purpose for
such changes. Of particular
concern were regulatory
changes made without congressional review limiting
parental access to student
education records and limiting third party disclosure
of that information. 
“We also request that
you submit to us the authority under which the
Department has implemented Common Core and
altered polices on student
policy” the letter asks. 

Stockman: audit the fed

…Congressman
Steve
Stockman (R-Texas) introduced Jan. 9, 2013 “The
Audit The Fed Act” which
would require an audit of
the Federal Reserve. 
…”The Federal Reserve
is too big to be allowed to
operate in secrecy. Congress has a right to know
how the Fed operates and
where the money is going.
The Constitution
clearly gives Congress the
authority to regulate our

monetary system, yet we
are not allowed to even
see the books. An audit of
the Federal Reserve is a
first step toward restoring
our Constitutional Republic,” said Stockman. 
…An “Audit The Fed” bill
previously sponsored by
Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas)
passed the House 327-98
in July 2012. A Rasmussen poll shows 80 percent
of Americans support it. 
…The bill is HR 33. 

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Stockman kills Senate gun control
bill with ‘blue slip’ manuever

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s gun control victory was
turned into defeat by Congressman Steve Stockman, who
stopped the bill dead with his blue slip resolution. 

Where do they stand on
your gun rights?
STOCKMAN:
Filed blue slip resoluton that
killed Senate anti-gun bill, as
its expansion of NICS federal
background check mandate
constitutes a tax.
CORNYN:
Teaming up with Sen. Lindsay
Graham expand background
checks on law-abiding gun
owners. Questions your need
for open carry.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid halted action on a sweeping new
anti-gun bill, after Congressman Steve Stockman
announced he would automatically kill it in the
House using a “blue slip.” 
…Sen. John Cornyn was
silent on the matter. 
…“The Democrat gun ban
is dead on arrival. I will introduce in the House a blue
slip resolution that will automatically kill the Senate
gun ban,” said Stockman.
“Not only are Democrats
on the wrong side of public opinion, they are on the
wrong side of the Constitution. You can’t strip Americans of their gun rights,
and you certainly can’t do
it by having the Senate
create a national tax on
firearms. They are in violation of constitutional limits on federal power.” 
A “blue slip” is a resolution
that
automatically returns to the Senate any bill that violates
the “origination clause”
of the United States Constitution. The origination
clause states “All Bills
for raising Revenue shall
originate in the House
of Representatives.”  
Blue slip resolutions
are immediately considered as a matter of constitutional privilege, are
debatable for an hour
and are not subject to

amendment. 
Senate Democrats took
three anti-gun bills (S. 374,
S. 54 and S. 146) and quickly rammed them through
the Judiciary Committee
without even a committee report, then combined
them into one bill (S. 649.)
The bill includes language
mandating a fee for background checks for all private transfers of firearms.
Similar legislation has
been construed by the Supreme Court to be a tax.  
By introducing a bill imposing a new tax through
the Senate, Democrats
have violated constitutional mandates and the bill is
automatically invalid.  
According to The Heritage
Foundation, S.649 imposes
a new tax by forcing individuals to pay for background
checks when selling or giving away a firearm.  
The mandate to use the
National Instant Criminal Background Check
System does not provide
a service to the buyer or
seller but to the government, making it a tax.  
Additionally, the Supreme Court ruled last
year in NFIB v. Sebelius
that mandating citizens
to pay for a service can be
construed to be a tax, with
Chief Justice John Roberts
writing the majority opinion expanding the federal
definition of a tax.  

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Stockman’s Sanctity of Life
Act overturns Roe v. Wade
Cornyn voted to funnel Obamacare funds to Planned Parenthood

Congressman
Steve
Stockman
re-introduced
his
Sanctity
of
Life
Act in a July 17 event. 
Stockman was the original sponsor of the bill in
1995, which would overturn Roe v. Wade by formally declaring life begins
at conception. In its Roe
v. Wade ruling the Court
stated such a bill would
invalidate
their
infamous 1973 decision. 
Stockman: Sanctity of
Life Act ‘landmark
achievement’
“Government has one
responsibility and that is
to protect the individual
right to life and property.
The right to life is the most
basic and inalienable of
all human rights and decades of scientific progress
continue to prove life begins at conception,” said
Stockman. “Passage of a
Sanctity of Life Act would
be a landmark achievement for civil and human rights in the United
States,” said Stockman. 
“The right to life is a
basic human right. It is
not negotiable or violable.
Sadly, our government has

a history of treating entire classes of people with
indifference and outright
brutality.
We pray the
horrors of abortion will be
the final time our federal
government sanctions and
enshrines in law the dehumanization and brutal
treatment of defenseless
people,” said Stockman. 
Bill to overturn Roe v
Wade was first introduced
by Stockman in 1995
“Since that terrible day in
1973, over 55 million children have died in abortion
clinics. 55 million Americans dead, more deaths
than in all U.S. wars combined,” said Stockman. 
…“But the tide is turning. Support for abortion
is dwindling as science
proves human life begins
at conception. More Americans than ever consider
themselves pro-life. We
are winning. But we are
still a long way from total victory over abortion.”
“That is why we in Congress are fighting to defund
Planned Parenthood, pass
laws overturning ObamaCare, laws banning the
interstate trafficking of

Pro-life groups are backing Stockman’s Sanctity of Life Act.

minors for an abortion,
and pass a constitutional
amendment
overturning
Roe v. Wade and recognizing the scientific fact human life begins at conception,” said Stockman. 
Stockman, staff engage in
40 Days for Life
Stockman and his staff
also engaged in 40 days
of prayer in 2013 to end
abortions at the “Whole
Woman’s
Health”
facility in Beaumont.  
The
facility
closed
several months later. 
“The right to life is the
great civil rights struggle
of our age. An innocent
person’s right to life cannot be violated under any
circumstance,” said Stock-

man. “We hope 40 days
of peaceful, intercessory
prayer will change hearts
and end the tragedy of
abortion. Even if it saves
one life, it is worth it.” 
…“One way to stop abortion is through an outreach
of love and an effort to legally change laws. Praying to end abortion at the
Beaumont facility was
one way to help out,” said
Stockman. “You can do
it from your home, your
truck or your church.” 
…The prayer effort was
inspired by the “40 Days
For Life” movement, which
encourages Christians to
pray to end abortion. 
Stockman is also a cosponsor of H.R. 61 and H.R.
217, which cut off Title X
funds to abortion clinics. 

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Stockman bill stops Obama
executive Orders, un gun ban

Sen. John Cornyn is introducing an anti-gun bill that would
make Obama’s Executive Order a federal law. Rep. Steve
Stockman and Sen.
Rand Paul have introduced legislation
blocking any Obama order that violates the Constitution. 

U.S. Congressman Steve
Stockman has introduced
the “Restore The Constitution Act.” It is the House
companion to Sen. Rand
Paul’s “Separation of Powers Restoration and Second Amendment Protection Act.” Stockman and
Paul are working together on the joint effort. 
“I promised to thwart
Obama’s unlawful orders,
first by seeking to block,
overturn and defund any
action that violates the
Constitution,” said Stock-

man. “Promise made, promise kept. No matter his
intentions, the Constitution flatly prohibits the
President from just making
up his own laws.”  
“The Orders issued by
President Obama are not
intended to execute laws
passed by the Congress.
President Obama is abusing his authority to write his
own unaccountable laws.
Regardless of your position
on gun rights, Congress
has an obligation to assert
its constitutional authority

as the only lawful rulemaking body,” said Stockman.
If passed, the Restore
The Constitution Act would
declare any past, present or
future executive action that
infringes on the powers and
duties of Congress in Article
I, Section 8 of the Constitution, or the Second Amendment to the Constitution or
that would require the expenditure of federal funds
not specifically appropriated for the purpose of executive action, is advisory only
and has no force or effect
unless enacted by law. 
“Executive action” includes any Executive order,
memoranda, proclamation
or signing statement. Any
executive action in violation
can be challenged in federal court by any member
of the U.S. House or Senate, the highest-ranking
official of any state or political subdivision or their
designee, or any person
deprived of liberty or property by an executive action.

 

Stockman also fighting
UN gun ban

Stockman is also fighting the recent United Nations gun ban. 
“The right to keep and
bear arms is a natural
right and protected from

government
aggression
by the Constitution. It is
not subject to the whims
of
global
totalitarians
massed in New York City,”
said Stockman. “I oppose
any UN treaty touching
the right to keep and bear
arms. It’s beyond time for
the United States to withdraw from the UN.” 
Stockman, Rand Paul
would end White House
gun grabs
Stockman and 130 members of Congress sent a letter to Secretary of State
John Kerry stating their opposition. It declares Stockman’s opposition to “ b o t h
the ratification of the Arms
Trade Treaty and any effort
to treat it as internationally or domestically binding
upon the United States.” 
The text of the UN treaty
requires nations that sign
on to it to record and track
all guns and gun owners in
their country, and submit
the list to the “international secretariat.” It would
also require signing nations to ban many common
types of hunting rifles.  
Obama has announced
he will sign it and pressure the United States
Senate to approve it for enforcement in the U.S. 

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REPUBLICANS: Cornyn led PLOT
to backstab ted cruz

GOP staff: Cornyn ‘leading the fight to fully fund Obamacare’
...“Senate Minority Leader
Mitch McConnell and Senate Minority Whip John
Cornyn are using their
leadership positions to
pressure other Republicans
to oppose Sen. Ted Cruz
(R-TX) in his campaign to
defund Obamacare,” conservative news source Breitbart reported Sept. 23. 
...“Right now in the Senate, Mitch McConnell and
John Cornyn are actively
whipping Senators to shut
down debate on the House
continuing resolution so
that Harry Reid can gut it
with just 51 votes,” a senior congressional staffer
with intimate knowledge
told Breitbart News. “Unbelievably, they actually
are leading the fight to fully fund Obamacare.” 
Cornyn led scheme
to stop Cruz, fund
Obamacare
...“McConnell and Cornyn
stated earlier Monday that
they oppose a possible filibuster from Cruz to keep
Reid from adding language
funding the Affordable
Care Act to the continuing resolution passed by
the House of Representa-

tives,” Breitbart reported.
...“Instead
of
helping
Cruz with their power
as Senate GOP leaders,
McConnell and Cornyn
are
working
against
him” Breitbart reported. 
Cornyn votes to pass
Obamacare before
casting symbolic vote
against it
...“But in the end, they will
try to make it appear as
though they do not support
funding Obamacare by voting against Reid’s amendment after allowing Reid
to implement it. Once it’s
a 51-vote threshold, both
McConnell and Cornyn
will hide behind a ‘no’ vote
on Reid’s amendment—so
they will have yet another
show vote,” the staffer said.

 

‘Nobody is fighting
harder to make sure
Obamacare is funded.’
than John Cornyn

“To be clear, nobody is
fighting harder to make sure
Obamacare is funded than
Mitch McConnell and John
Cornyn,” the senior staffer
added, Breitbart reports. 

“Source: McConnell, Cornyn
Whipping Votes Against Ted Cruz”
Breitbart News, Sept. 23, 2012
Breitbart News reported John Cornyn
used his “leadership position to
pressure other Republicans to oppose
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) in his
campaign to defund Obamacare.”
Republican Senate staff tell Breitbart
John Cornyn us “leading the fight to
fully fund Obamacare...Nobody is
fighting harder to make sure
Obamacare is funded” than John
Cornyn, Republicans report.

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Stockman kills cornyn-backed
senate amnesty bill
Cornyn votes with Democrats to kill GOP filibuster of amnesty bill, Stockman kills
amnesty bill in House with “blue slip,” angry Cornyn demands GOP pass amnesty

U.S Congressman Steve
Stockman killed an amnesty bill backed by Sen.
John Cornyn June 27, just
moments after it passed
the Senate by filing a “blue
slip”
resolution
blocking it in the House.  
Cornyn voted with Democrats to kill a GOP filibuster so amnesty could
become law. Cornyn introduce his own bill, S1348
(2005,) giving illegals amJohn Cornyn served up amnesty, voting with Democrats to kill a nesty, work documents, and
GOP filibuster of Obama’s amnesty plan. That’s when Congress- a Social Security number. 
man Steve Stockman killed the amnesty bill by filing a “blue slip”
A blue slip” is a resolution
resolution blocking it in the House with a procedural move. 
that automatically returns
to the Senate any bill that
violates the “origination
clause” of the United States
Constitution. The origination clause states “All Bills
for raising Revenue shall
originate in the House
Sen. John Cornyn, who previously offered his own
of Representatives.”  
bill (S1348, 2005) granting illegals amnesty, work
Senate Majority Leader
documents and a Social Security number, demanded
Harry Reid admitted deGOP Senators support legislation giving millions of
feat, refusing to transillegals a shortcut to citizenship, welfare and voter
mit the bill to the House
in a crushing blow to
registration.
amnesty advocates. 
“Even Harry Reid now
“We can win in 2014 without resolving it. We can’t
admits the Senate’s amwin in 2016 without resolving it,” Cornyn told
nesty bill is unconstituNational Journal of the Senate amnesty bill.
tional and cannot become
law,”
said
Stockman.
“The
Senate
Democrats
Rep. Steve Stockman opposes Cornyn’s plan.
were so hell-bent on ram-

Cornyn: Republicans
should back amnesty

ming through a gift to
radical political activists
they didn’t bother to check
if it was even legal.” 
“They got caught trying to sneak an illegal bill
past the Constitution’s borders,” said Stockman. 
Blue slip resolutions are
immediately considered as
a matter of constitutional
privilege, are debatable
for an hour and are not
subject to amendment. 
Section 2102 of the amnesty bill requires the
payment of certain taxes
and forgives the payment
of other taxes as a condition of receiving amnesty and other benefits. 
The Congressional Budget Office analysis of S.
744, dated June 18, 2013,
on page 44 states, in part,
that “enacting S. 744 would
have a wide range of effects on federal revenues,
including changes in collections of income and payroll taxes, certain visa fees
that are classified as revenues, and various fines
and penalties. Taken together, those effects would
increase revenues by $459
billion over the 2014-2023
period, according to estimates by JCT and CBO.” 

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The Texas Conservative News
Scorecard:
Where are they on the issues?
Congressman Steve Stockman
Did you vote against funding Obamacare?

Do you support the Second Amendment, as written by the
Founding Fathers?

Do you oppose raising the debt limit?

YES. Stockman has voted for
every bill to defund or repeal
Obamacare.

NO. Cornyn twice voted with Democrats to fund

YES. Stockman has a 100% lifetime

NO. Cornyn twice voted for Obama’s amnesty bill. (2013

YES. Stockman has a 100% lifetime NRA rating

NO. Cornyn will introduce a bill called for by anti-gun

YES. Stockman has voted against every single

NO. Cornyn voted on Feb. 12, 2014 to completely

border security rating. Stockman is the
original sponsor of the bill to end automatic
citzenship to “anchor babies” of illegal aliens.

Did you vote to protect Texas borders?

Senator John Cornyn

and is endorsed by Gunowners of America and the
National Association for Gun Rights. Stockman
and Rand Paul have introduced bills to block
Obama’s anti-gun Executive Orders.

measure to raise the debt limit. Stockman has
a 100% lifetime fiscal conservative record and
was named “The Taxpayer’s Best Friend” by The
National Taxpayer’s Union.

Obamacare. (2013 RCVs 44 & 206) Cornyn told a
liberal magazine he voted to kill Ted Cruz’s filibuster
of Obamacare funding because Cruz was too “confrontational” with Obama (Texas Monthly, Jan. 2014)

RCVs 146 & 147.) Cornyn voted with Democrats to kill the
border fence (2006 RCV200.) Cornyn voted to give amnesty
visas to illegal aliens (2007 RCV 180.) Cornyn introduced
his own bill creating an amnesty program (2005, S1438)

groups to esxpand federal gun control programs and the
national gun owner registration database (Texas Monthly,
Jan. 2104) Cornyn voted to give automatic Senate approval
to Obama’s anti-gun federal appointees (2011 RCV 101.)

suspend all limits on Obama’s power to create debt. (2014
RCV 33.) Cornyn then lied about it to voters. Cornyn voted
to raise the debt limit eight times before this vote, and has
voted three times in two years against balancing the budget.

John Cornyn voted twice
to fund Obamacare.

(2013 RCVs 44 & 206)

Would you have
voted to fund
Obamacare?