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“After more than a decade representing blood-red Texas in the United States Senate, John Cornyn finds himself in an unusual spot: burnishing his conservative credentials. One would think the senior Texas senator’s reputation would be secure: Mr. Cornyn, who has ascended to minority whip, spent two election cycles as the chairman of the Senate’s Republican campaign fund-raising arm, and National Journal last week ranked him second in its 2012 list of the most conservative senators. But with the departure of Kay Bailey Hutchison, his more moderate fellow Texas Republican, and the arrival of the state’s unabashed new junior senator, the Tea Party darling Ted Cruz, Mr. Cornyn seems to be shifting discernibly right, as evidenced, Republican observers say, by his recent positions on everything from cabinet appointees to a bipartisan immigration plan. Mr. Cornyn’s aides say that this perception is not reality and that anyone looking at the last few weeks rather than the last 11 years is missing a solid conservative voting record.

Some See a Move by Cornyn to the Right. New York Times. February 2013. 

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