[335][336], In 2013, Cruz said that the U.S. had no "dog in the fight" during the Syrian Civil War and that its armed forces should not serve as "al-Qaeda's air force".
Conference Report Agreed to 83/16 on Feb 14, 2019.
The Cruz campaign had more than 325,000 volunteers. The chart below reports missed votes over time. Sec.
Ted Cruz sponsored S.J.Res. [44][48][55] His nine appearances before the Supreme Court are the most by any practicing lawyer in Texas or current member of Congress.
114-90. [130][131], On April 1, 2014, Cruz introduced S. 2195, a bill that would allow the president of the United States to deny visas to any ambassador to the United Nations who has been found to have been engaged in espionage or terrorist activity against the United States or its allies and may pose a threat to U.S. national security interests. [403][404] He is in favor of cutting federal funding to Planned Parenthood. From Jan 2013 to Dec 2022, Cruz missed 335 of 3,426 roll call votes, which is 9.8%.
Cruz appeared on Carlson's program the next night to apologize for that comment as "frankly dumb" and "sloppy."
Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.)
WASHINGTON U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz voted to advance federal legislation expanding health care protections for certain military veterans after fierce criticism for voting to delay its passage last .
[166][167] In the same speech, Cruz assailed the "Republican majority in both houses of Congresses" for what he called an insufficiently conservative record.
The measure would block semiconductor manufacturers funded by the bill from outsourcing their jobs and forbid them to dissuade their employees from forming unions. [198] Thousands of lawyers and law students called for him to be disbarred for inciting the insurrection.
[368][369][370][371], In 2013, Cruz voted against a bill to provide a package of federal aid to the Northern East Coast for recovery from Hurricane Sandy[372] because, he said, the bill was "filled with unrelated pork" and "two-thirds of that bill had nothing to do with Sandy".
[17], At Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Cruz represented Pfizer in a lawsuit brought by a group of public hospitals and community health centers, who accused Pfizer of overcharging.
[61], Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, which was decided 54 in his favor in League of United Latin American Citizens v. WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. 115-245) Ted Cruz sponsored S.Amdt.3809, which was adopted by UC on the Senate floor and incorporated as Sec.
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[23] In 1974, Cruz's father left the family and moved to Texas.
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Sec. WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is co-sponsoring legislation to authorize the construction of the coastal barrier protection system, which would mitigate the impact of major hurricanes and other significant water events in and around the Texas coastand the vast petrochemical industry that surrounds it. 124 (113th): Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015, 2021 Jan-Jan [245] The Iowa win made him the first Hispanic to win either a presidential primary election or caucus.
( All Actions ) Tracker: Introduced Passed Senate Passed House To President Became Law BILL 2. [391] He has claimed the military is debilitated and its "ability to project power and obtain air superiority is tragically anemic".
[147] With the death of Fidel Castro in November, Cruz charged Obama with celebrating and lionizing Castro in public statements he made addressing the death. The .
[401][402], Cruz is strongly anti-abortion, but "would allow the procedurewhen a pregnancy endangers the mother's life".
[177], Cruz backed a failed appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court attempting to overturn or nullify the 2020 presidential election in Pennsylvania filed by U.S. Representative Mike Kelly, which argued that the Pennsylvania Constitution requires in-person voting except in narrow and defined circumstances; the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania had already rejected this argument.
15) FY 2018 NDAA: Iran Mil-Mil [260] Because he surpassed the 50% winner-take-all threshold, he won all 40 of Utah's delegates. [4][44][53], In 2003, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott appointed Cruz to be the solicitor general of Texas.
[162][163] In 2013, he called Republicans he considered insufficiently resistant to Obama's proposals a "surrender caucus".
[74] Linglong Tire was found guilty of marketing versions of tires that were based on blueprints stolen by a former employee of a Florida businessman and ordered to pay $26 million to the Floridian. Sec. Sec. "[355], American video game company Activision Blizzard punished a Hong Kong-based professional gamer for supporting pro-democracy Hong Kong protests. [293], Cruz was backed by the billionaire Mercer family, including Robert and his daughter Rebekah. [351] In January, another pipelayer, Fortuna, joined forces with the Akademik Cherskiy to complete the pipeline.
[12][41] Cruz graduated from Princeton in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts cum laude.
114-90 Cruz is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. 115-91 113-66 If youve visited a bill page on GovTrack.us recently, you may have noticed a new study guide tab located just below the bill title.
Taxation (19%) He Cruz's name is on two more laws as a cosponsor.
[145] In June 2016, Cruz blamed the Obama administration for the Orlando nightclub shooting, reasoning that it did not track the perpetrator Omar Mateen properly while he was on the terrorist watch-list. Im having a problem with a government agency, need legal help, want to schedule a meeting or White House tour, or have another question. [181] Cruz later led an effort by a group of Republican senators to refuse to count Pennsylvania's Electoral College votes,[182][183] citing baseless allegations of fraud. Education (6%) [75] Cruz represented drug manufacturer B. Braun before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit after the company was found guilty of wrongfully discharging a former employee. Ted Cruz sponsored committee amendment #182, which was adopted in the full committee markup by voice vote.
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[156] Cruz said that during his visit to the Mar-a-Lago estate on March 18, he spoke with affiliates of Trump while negotiating the American Health Care Act.
She is of three-quarters Irish and one-quarter Italian descent, and earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Rice University in the 1950s.
[25][26][27], For junior high school, Cruz went to Awty International School in Houston. [258] He placed second in Michigan, Mississippi, and Hawaii.
Ted Cruz sponsored committee amendment #43, which was adopted in the strategic forces subcommittee markup by roll call vote.
[50] He authored 70 U.S. Supreme Court briefs and presented 34 appellate oral arguments.
[314], Cruz wants to decrease the size of the government significantly.
[78][79], Cruz ran as a Tea Party candidate in the 2012 Republican primary,[80][81][82] and The Washington Post called his victory "the biggest upset of 2012 a true grassroots victory against very long odds".
[202][203][3] Lauren Blair Bianchi, Cruzs communications director, resigned.[204].
[104] Cruz disclosed the loans on his Senate financial disclosure forms in July 2012, but not on the FEC form. Cruz's denunciation of Obama was criticized by PolitiFact, which found that the modern pattern of American outsourcing, while prevalent during the Obama years, had started earlier.
"[56], In 2003, while Cruz was Texas Solicitor General, the Texas Attorney General's office declined to defend Texas's sodomy law in Lawrence v. Texas, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state laws banning homosexual sex were unconstitutional. Would you like to join our advisory group to work with us on the future of GovTrack?
[380] He has called for the repeal of the clause of the 14th amendment that grants citizenship to those born in the United States.
We need someone with judgment and the temperament to keep this country safe.
[184], As part of the attempts to overturn the 2020 presidential election that Trump lost, Texas attorney general Ken Paxton filed a suit with the U.S. Supreme Court, seeking to have election results in four states nullified. 2 min read.
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[227], Cruz did speaking events in mid-2013 across Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina, all early primary states, leading to further speculation that he was laying the groundwork for a 2016 bid. [230] In his speech, Cruz mentioned that Latinos, young people and single mothers are the people most affected by the recession, and that the Republican Party should make outreach efforts to these constituents.
[398], During his 2016 presidential campaign, Cruz strongly denounced outsourcing American jobs to other countries, alleging that any politician who allowed it to happen was betraying their constituents. It's fundamentally wrong. Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz and Missouri Senator Josh Hawley are planning to introduce legislation that would limit the usage by U.S. officials of telecommunications devices thought to.
This is [36] Cruz and Panton later represented Harvard Law School at the 1995 World Debating Championship, losing in the semifinals to a team from Australia. to suppress entire state-certified vote counts without adjudication in the courts and using a disinformation
[36] In 1992, he was named U.S. National Speaker of the Year and, with his debate partner David Panton, Team of the Year by the American Parliamentary Debate Association. [378], Cruz opposes paths to citizenship for undocumented immigrants brought to the United States as children (so-called DREAMers). U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced the Senate companion to U.S .
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Jan 17, 2023, GovTrack Insider staff writer Jesse Rifkin Jan 16, 2023, GovTrack Insider analyzes House or Senate votes which passed with only one dissenter Jan 13, 2023. stated on May 26, 2022 in an interview with Fox News: In 2013, under a Democratic Senate, "a majority of the Senate voted in favor of" gun-related legislation sponsored by Republican Sens.
[12][13], Cruz's father, Rafael, was born and raised in Cuba, the son of a Canary Islander who immigrated to Cuba as a child.
[101][102], After Time magazine reported that Cruz might have violated ethics rules by failing to publicly disclose his financial relationship with Caribbean Equity Partners Investment Holdings during the 2012 campaign, he said his failure to disclose the connection was inadvertent. 115-232
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[108] The primary elections for both parties were held on March 6, 2018,[109] and he easily won the Republican nomination with over 80% of the vote. If you can, please take a few minutes to help us improve GovTrack for users like you. In the Senate, Cruz has taken consistently conservative positions on economic and social policy; he played a leading role in the 2013 United States federal government shutdown, seeking to force Congress and President Barack Obama to defund the Affordable Care Act. [194][195][196] The Houston Chronicle called for Cruz to resign.
Republican bill would let states name post offices, rather than Congress, Who was nominated for the Congressional Gold Medal in 2022, voted to reject the state-certified election results of Arizona and/or Pennsylvania, January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups.
[146] Following the terrorist attack on Nice, France, Cruz said in a statement that the country was at risk as a result of the Obama administration having a "willful blindness" to radical Islamists.
"[357], Beginning during his time as a Dublin, California, city councilman, Eric Swalwell was targeted by a Chinese woman believed to be a clandestine officer of China's Ministry of State Security.
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[65] Because of Haley's previous criminal convictions, he was sentenced to 16-and-a-half years in prison under the Texas habitual offender law. Most legislation has no activity after being introduced. 20) FY 2017 NDAA: Cuba joint exercises
The Washington Post disputed this, writing that "the bill was largely aimed at dealing with Sandy, along with relatively minor items to address other or future disasters.
After Haley had exhausted his appeals, it became known that Haley's robbery offense occurred three days before one of his other convictions was finalized; this raised a question about the applicability of the habitual offender statute in his case. [262][263][264][265] This gave Cruz his 11th state win.
[424], On March 8, 2020, Cruz began self-isolation after contact with a person infected with COVID-19 at the ACU's Conservative Political Action Conference.
[190], When Congress reconvened that evening to continue the count, Cruz voted to object to Arizona's and Pennsylvania's electoral votes. "What we just saw today was an absolute demonstration that not only what he told every Republican senator, but what he told the press over and over and over again was a simple lie", Cruz said. [50][63] They based their case on a decision of the International Court of Justice in the Avena case, which ruled that by failing to allow access to the Mexican consulate, the United States had breached its obligations under the Convention. [333][334], Cruz has been an adamant opponent of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, a 2015 international nuclear agreement with Iran negotiated by the U.S. and other world powers, calling it "catastrophic" and "disastrous". [103], In January 2016, The New York Times reported that Cruz and his wife had taken out nearly $1 million in low-interest loans from Goldman Sachs (where she worked) and Citibank, and failed to report them on Federal Election Commission disclosure statements as required by law.
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It was Cruz's tenth statewide win.
Regardless of one's views on immigration reform and the Obama administration at large, this is dangerous rhetoric.
[43][62], In Medelln v. Texas, Cruz successfully defended Texas against an attempt to reopen the cases of 51 Mexican nationals, all of whom were convicted of murder in the United States and on death row. Congress.
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Cruz declined consideration for the position.
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Sponsor: Cruz, Ted [Sen.-R-TX] (Introduced 06/15/2022) Cosponsors: ( 1 ) Committees: Senate - Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Latest Action: 01/05/2023 Became Public Law No: 117-352.
[199] President-elect Biden and Republican senator Pat Toomey both said Cruz was complicit in the "big lie" of Trump's allegations of voter fraud. The competition for the Republican presidential nomination between Trump and Cruz was deeply acrimonious and characterized by a series of public personal attacks. [187] Some observers think Cruz knew claims about fraud in the election were inaccurate and that this speech and his earlier statements were attempts to mislead for political gain. In a statement opposing U.S. intervention for regime change in Syria, Cruz said, "If President Obama and Hillary Clinton and Sen. Rubio succeed in toppling [Syrian President Bashar] Assad, the result will be the radical Islamic terrorists will take over Syria, that Syria will be controlled by ISIS, and that is materially worse for U.S. national security interests.
Cruz faced the Democratic nominee, U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke, in the general election.
1681 of P.L. [55][59], Cruz successfully defended the constitutionality of the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds before the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court, winning 54 in Van Orden v. [406] In 2013, he said he wanted marriage to be legally defined as only "between one man and one woman",[407] but also said that the legality of same-sex marriage should be left to each state to decide. 115-91
32) FY 2014 NDAA: IG report on religious liberty S.Amdt. [354], A co-sponsor of the resolution to commemorate the Armenian genocide, Cruz said that while Turkey is a NATO ally, "We should never be afraid to tell the truth, and alliances grounded in lies are themselves unsustainable. Ted Cruz sponsored committee amendment #37, which was adopted in the full committee markup by roll call vote. [118], Cruz has consistently denied any involvement in the 2013 government shutdown, even though he cast several votes to prolong it and was blamed by many within his own party for prompting it.
238 of P.L. S.1071 117th Congress (2021-2022) VA AID Act of 2021 Sponsor: Cruz, Ted [Sen.-R-TX] (Introduced 04/12/2021) Cosponsors: ( 1 ) Committees: Senate - Veterans' Affairs Latest Action: Senate - 04/28/2021 Committee on Veterans' Affairs. 115-232 -. After graduating from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Cruz pursued a career in politics. 26) U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act P.L.
[citation needed], Cruz then attended Harvard Law School,[4][42] where he was a John M. Olin Fellow in Law and Economics. He is 52 years old.
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2262, which is identical to P.L.
S.5127 117th Congress (2021-2022) Informing Consumers about Smart Devices Act Sponsor: Cruz, Ted [Sen.-R-TX] (Introduced 11/17/2022) Cosponsors: ( 1 ) Committees: Senate - Commerce, Science, and Transportation Latest Action: Senate - 11/17/2022 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.