“This was fundamentally important”: John Cornyn says gun deal shows U.S. Senate can still function

WASHINGTON — The booing didn’t bother him.

U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, 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.

But the visceral intraparty criticism didn’t affect the final product — six days later, the Senate passed 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.