Cornyn-sponsored bill to build a national Latino museum blocked by Utah Sen. Mike Lee This is the second of Texan Cornyn’s bills to be held up as this Congress nears an end. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, right, speaks as Thom Tillis, R-N.C., listens during a confirmation hearing for Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Tuesday, Oct. 13, 2020, on Capitol Hill in Washington.(Tom Williams) Updated at 6:45 p.m. with comment from Henry Muñoz, who helped found the effort to create a Latino museum at the Smithsonian. Texas Sen. John Cornyn’s bill to end over two decades of “willful neglect” of Latino Americans by the Smithsonian Institution by creating a National Museum of the American Latino is being blocked in Congress by fellow Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah.