what district does john cornyn represent?
Texas
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 McCotter , who had served in Congress since 2003 , was first mentioned as a potential presidential candidate on an April 2011 episode of Fox News ' Red Eye w / Greg Gutfeld . After entering the race two months later , McCotter based his campaign on " five core principles " listed on his campaign website , and used the slogan Seize Freedom ! , derived from the title of his 2011 book . During the campaign , he focused on reform of government and Wall Street . 

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 After much anticipation by the media , Brown announced that he would run for U.S. Senate from the state of New Hampshire . Born at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery , Maine , to parents who lived near downtown Portsmouth , Brown then spent his early childhood in Portsmouth , New Hampshire and later in Wakefield , Massachusetts following his parents ' divorce . He has also been a taxpayer and owned a home in Rye , New Hampshire for more than two decades . In December 2013 , he sold his primary home in Massachusetts and expressed to the Rye town clerk " his intention to establish residency and register to vote " . 

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 Brown is a member of the Republican Party , and faced the Democratic candidate , Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley , in the 2010 special election to succeed U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy for the remainder of the term ending January 3 , 2013 . While initially trailing Coakley in polling by a large margin , Brown saw a sudden late surge in the polls and posted a surprise win to become the first Republican elected to the U.S. Senate from Massachusetts since Edward Brooke in 1972 . Brown ran for a full Senate term in 2012 , but lost to Democratic challenger Elizabeth Warren . He subsequently joined the board of directors of Kadant paper company , joined Fox News as a commentator , and joined Nixon Peabody where he provided legal services . 

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 Commentators noted McCotter 's lack of name recognition hindered his chances for nomination . When included in Republican presidential preference polls , he regularly received less than one percent support . Following a last place finish in the Ames Straw Poll and the lack of any invitation to presidential debates , he dropped his candidacy on September 22 , 2011 , and endorsed Mitt Romney . Thereafter , McCotter reportedly wrote a television pilot , which was released to the media prior to his resignation from Congress in July 2012 amid a fraud investigation surrounding his congressional re @-@ election campaign . 

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 In 1998 he navigated a crowded Democratic primary to replace Joseph Kennedy II in Congress and has since been re @-@ elected six times . He represented the state 's 8th district until it was redrawn in 2013 into the 7th district . In Congress he is a staunch liberal and member of the Congressional Progressive Caucus . He ran in the 2010 special election to fill the seat in the United States Senate made vacant by the death of Ted Kennedy , his predecessor 's uncle , but lost the primary to Martha Coakley , who in turn lost the general election to Republican Scott Brown . 
