{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/cornyn-calls-on-senate-appropriators-to-prevent-taxpayer-funded-abortions-maintain-hyde-protections-in-fy26-funding-process/", "Cornyn Calls on Senate Appropriators to Prevent Taxpayer-Funded Abortions, Maintain Hyde Protections in FY26 Funding Process", "2025-11-25", "2025", "2025-11", "Republican", "Senate", "TX", "John Cornyn", "C001056", "www.cornyn.senate.gov", "cornyn", "https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "AUSTIN \u2013 U.S. Senator John Cornyn (R-TX) sent a letter to Senators Susan Collins (R-ME), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV), Chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies, urging them to ensure any Fiscal Year 2026 appropriations package maintains critical provisions that protect against federal funding of elective abortions:\n\n\u201cSince 1976, the Hyde Amendment has been included in the annual Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies bill to prevent taxpayer funding from being used for elective abortions, saving more than 2,646,000 lives in the five decades since,\u201d wrote Sen. Cornyn.\n\n\u201cFollowing the Biden Administration\u2019s unprecedented attacks on the unborn, Congressional Republicans and President Trump took a critical step in the fight for life by passing legislation in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to defund the big abortion industry, including Planned Parenthood. By halting taxpayer funding of abortion through the Medicaid program, Republicans showed that even in the wake of the historic Dobbs decision, our fight is not over, and we reasserted our commitment to protecting the most vulnerable in our communities,\u201d he continued.\n\n\u201cI urge appropriators to hold the line against any Democratic efforts to subvert the Hyde amendment; we must maintain all current protections against taxpayer-funded abortions,\u201d he concluded.\n\nThe full text of the letter is available here and below.\n\nNovember 24, 2025\n\nDear Chairwoman Collins and Subcommittee Chairwoman Capito:\n\nThank you for your ongoing work towards completing the appropriations process for Fiscal Year 2026. As negotiations with your Democratic counterparts continue, I urge you to maintain all provisions that protect against federal funding of elective abortions in any potential conference agreement or appropriations package.\n\nSince 1976, the Hyde Amendment has been included in the annual Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies bill to prevent taxpayer funding from being used for elective abortions, saving more than 2,646,000 lives in the five decades since.\n\nFollowing the Biden Administration\u2019s unprecedented attacks on the unborn, Congressional Republicans and President Trump took a critical step in the fight for life by passing legislation in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act to defund the big abortion industry, including Planned Parenthood. By halting taxpayer funding of abortion through the Medicaid program, Republicans showed that even in the wake of the historic Dobbs decision, our fight is not over, and we reasserted our commitment to protecting the most vulnerable in our communities. The ongoing legal fight over this provision highlights the continued threat of the big abortion industry and the need for pro-life lawmakers to remain vigilant.\n\nDemocrats shut down the government for 43 days in an unsuccessful attempt to undue the work Republicans accomplished in the OBBBA, including the progress we made to stop forced taxpayer funding of abortion. Now is not the time to give an inch on our pro-life values. As you work towards securing further funding agreements for Fiscal Year 2026, I urge appropriators to hold the line against any Democratic efforts to subvert the Hyde amendment; we must maintain all current protections against taxpayer-funded abortions. Lives, and futures, are at stake.\n\nThank you for your continued work and attention to this important matter.\n\nSincerely,\n\n/s/", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:52:45Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.cornyn.senate.gov/news/cornyn-calls-on-senate-appropriators-to-prevent-taxpayer-funded-abortions-maintain-hyde-protections-in-fy26-funding-process/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.2878929264843464, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}