More than any other senator, John Cornyn is responsible for shepherding the landmark bipartisan gun legislation through the chamber. In leading the effort to build consensus, Cornyn also wanted to reinstill faith that the U.S. Senate can still function.
WASHINGTON — The booing didn’t bother him., who was viciously jeered by hundreds of Texas Republicans at the party convention in Houston this month, said he had an inkling that might happen given his high-profile role negotiating the Senate’s bipartisan gun legislation.the most significant gun safety bill in a generation — the contours of which did not dramatically change from how it was originally presented to the American public a week before.from his home state.
“This was fundamentally important to the country at a time when things are so polarized and people are so intolerant of others that have different points of view,” he said. “I thought it was important to demonstrate the Senate could work.” House and Senate Democrats telegraphed that after so many years of legislative disappointments on gun policy, they would begrudgingly accept nearly any agreement the negotiators produced, even ones that didn’t include their priorities of raising the age to purchase a firearm and expanding background checks.
Negotiations transpired over the phone, Zoom, text messaging, on planes, in hallways and on the Senate floor. When senators returned to their home states, Cornyn and others continued to push for momentum with public appearances and continued contact with colleagues. Barrasso and U.S. Sen. John Thune of South Dakota are widely viewed as Cornyn’s top rivals in a future race to lead the Senate GOP conference. Both men voted against the bill.
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