"[299], Cruz has called for an end to "overcriminalization, harsh mandatory minimum sentences, and the demise of jury trials". Sec. Cruz, a first-term senator who is considering a run for president in 2016, has spent the last several days railing against Iran's appointment of Hamid Aboutalebi as its new top envoy to the. Where to begin? Ted Cruz sponsored committee amendment #116, which was adopted in the full committee markup. [340][341][342], On January 5, 2017, Cruz voted in favor of a House resolution condemning UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which condemned Israeli settlement building in the occupied Palestinian territories as a violation of international law. Seuss. [50], On April 12, 2014, Cruz spoke at the Freedom Summit, an event organized by Americans for Prosperity and Citizens United. In September 2020, less than two months before the next presidential election, Cruz supported an immediate vote on Trump's nominee to fill the Supreme Court vacancy caused by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death. The competition for the Republican presidential nomination between Trump and Cruz was deeply acrimonious and characterized by a series of public personal attacks. 17) North Korea State Sponsor of Terrorism Designation Act 115-232 [352] On June 4, 2021, Putin announced that the pipelaying for first line of the Nord Stream 2 was fully completed. Sens. [78][79] The settlements were sealed in both cases. ( All Actions ) Tracker: Introduced Passed Senate Passed House To President Became Law BILL 2. [83], On January 19, 2011, after U.S. [249], On March 1, 2016, Super Tuesday, Cruz won Texas by 17%, along with Alaska and Oklahoma, providing him with four state primary victories total. [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. 10) FY 2019 NDAA: Fort Bliss Armed Services Blood Program Bills Sponsored by Ted Cruz (R-Texas) | Represent | ProPublica Senate Members Ted Cruz Bills Sponsored Bills Sponsored by Ted Cruz (R-Texas) Sen. Cruz sponsored 66 bills in. The Cruz campaign had more than 325,000 volunteers. Why isn't that a bigger deal? Nomination Confirmed 75/18 on Dec 16, 2021. 1259 of P.L. She is of three-quarters Irish and one-quarter Italian descent, and earned an undergraduate degree in mathematics from Rice University in the 1950s. 3(b)(9) requires TSA to create a strategy to provide law enforcement with access to airport security video surveillance systems at certain airports. 114-328 113-291 113-100 The speech was met with boos and a negative reception among the crowd. [173], When Boehner resigned from the House in September 2015, Cruz expressed his concern that before resigning Boehner might have "cut a deal with Nancy Pelosi to fund the Obama administration for the rest of its tenure". Please join our advisory group to let us know what more we can do. 14) FY 2018 NDAA: Full Time Duty 31) FY 2014 NDAA: Ballistic Missile Threats from the South WASHINGTON As the Senate voted this week on a bill that would help veterans sickened by toxic fumes from burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was standing near the. Senator from Texas", "Australians Win Debate At Princeton A Singapore Woman Won The Award For Best Speaker. [290], On October 10, after the 2005 audio recording of Trump was released and several Republicans retracted their endorsements, Cruz reaffirmed his support, calling Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton "manifestly unfit to be president". [234][235] During the primary campaign, his base of support was mainly among social conservatives, though he had crossover appeal to other factions within his party, including in particular libertarian conservatives. 113-291 2 min read. 1273 of P.L. 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Ted Cruz Says". U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, broke from his own party in voting against a bipartisan bill that would bar lawmakers from being able to singlehandedly launch an objection to a state's. He also joined a. [84] In the Republican primary, he ran against sitting Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst. [94] He was also endorsed by former Texas Congressman Ron Paul,[95] George P. Bush,[53] and former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania Rick Santorum. [97] Cruz won despite being outspent by Dewhurst, who held a statewide elected office,[98] $19 million to $7 million. Sec. Cruz was endorsed first by former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin[85] and then by the Club for Growth, a fiscally conservative political action committee;[86] the FreedomWorks for America super PAC;[87] nationally syndicated radio host Mark Levin;[88] Tea Party Express;[89] Young Conservatives of Texas;[90] and U.S. Cruz previously sponsored an . [223] He tied for 7th place in the 2013 CPAC straw poll on March 16, winning 4% of the votes cast. 22) FY 2017 NDAA: Russia Report [118] This move was extremely popular among Cruz supporters, with Rick Manning of Americans for Limited Government naming Cruz "2013 Person of the Year" in an op-ed in The Hill, primarily for his filibuster against the Affordable Care Act. [218] After returning from Cancn, Cruz volunteered in Houston to help with recovery efforts. On April 16, Cruz won all 14 of Wyoming's at-large delegates in the state convention. 32) FY 2014 NDAA: IG report on religious liberty [213], Cruz left the family poodle Snowflake alone inside the house without heat; reporters saw the dog through the window of the front door of the dark and empty house. You are encouraged to reuse any material on this site. Cruz received the support of the majority of the delegates. Their attempts Ted Cruz sponsored committee amendment #342, which was adopted in the ETC subcommittee markup in the managers package. [206][207][208] Despite his attempts to downplay the incident, Cruz was widely condemned by pro-Trump Republicansespecially Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene[209]for his comments. A bill to create a point of order against legislation modifying the number of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. [100] According to a poll by Cruz's pollster Wilson Perkins Allen Opinion Research, Cruz received 40% of the Hispanic vote, outperforming Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney among Hispanics in Texas. 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Ted Cruz insulted a 'woke, emasculated' U.S. Army ad. [200] Republican operative Chad Sweet, the chair of Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign, denounced Cruz for "assault on our democracy. Ted Cruz sponsored S. 672, which is identical to Sec. Swalwell's general relationship with a suspected Chinese agent, Christine Fang, has been characterized as problematic, particularly given his high-profile role as a member of the House Intelligence Committee. 238 of P.L. [174] The next month, the budget agreement passed in the House by a vote of 266 to 187, with unanimous support from Democrats and Boehner, lifting the debt ceiling through March 2017. [393] Blaming "bloated bureaucracy and social experiments", Cruz has proposed reducing the size of the active duty military while increasing spending. 1852, which added Sec. [4], After his Supreme Court clerkship, Cruz worked in private practice as an associate at the law firm Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal (now Cooper & Kirk, PLLC) from 1997 to 1998. Visit us on Instagram, U.S. post offices are named after everyone from rock singer Ritchie Valens to Marilyn Monroe. [315], Cruz is a proponent of school choice[316] and opposes the Common Core State Standards Initiative. 113-66 [16] He earned Canadian citizenship in 1973[6] and became a naturalized United States citizen in 2005. [127][128] He was a finalist for Time magazine's "Person of the Year" in 2013. This is [51][52], Cruz joined the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 1999 as a domestic policy adviser, advising then-Governor Bush on a wide range of policy and legal matters, including civil justice, criminal justice, constitutional law, immigration, and government reform. 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. Education (6%) Cruz accused Blizzard and Apple of censorship. [251] On March 5, Cruz won the Kansas and Maine caucuses, giving him six statewide wins. Ted Cruz sponsored S.Amdt.3809, which was adopted by UC on the Senate floor and incorporated as Sec. [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. [8][9][10][11] Cruz's mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. Our public interest mission means we will never put our service behind a paywall. [219], As early as 2013, Cruz was widely expected to run for the presidency in 2016. This bill, in its final form, funded the parts of the federal government whose funding was to lapse on February 15, 2019. 114-90. positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top). [238] The book reached the bestseller list of several organizations in its first week of release. "[141], Cruz has repeatedly said that the 2015 international nuclear agreement with Iran "will make the Obama administration the world's leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism". S. 2611 (117th): A bill to designate high priority corridors on the National Highway System, and for other purposes. [415], Cruz and Michael J. Knowles started a podcast, Verdict with Ted Cruz, on January 21, 2020. 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Rafael Edward Cruz (/kruz/; born December 22, 1970) is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator from Texas since 2013. Mastodon is an alternative social media platform. [214] Later, a self-identified security guard told a reporter he was caring for the dog. During the first year of Trump's presidency, Cruz sponsored legislation to repeal the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, and was part of the group of 13 senators that drafted the unsuccessful 2017 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act replacement proposals of the AHCA. 8112 of the conference report. By. [324] Cruz said the Corps' responsibilities were expanded without providing adequate measures for state participation. Youre more than a vote, so support GovTrack today with a tip of any amount: Or keep using GovTrack for free! [248] On February 21, he placed third in the South Carolina Republican primary with about 22.3% of the vote. [81][295][296][297], Cruz is a critic of the rapprochement between Cuba and the United States, saying on Fox News in December 2014 that the thaw in relations was a "manifestation of the failures of the Obama-Clinton-Kerry foreign policy" that "will be remembered as a tragic mistake". [418] The couple met when Cruz was working on George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign. Ted Cruz sponsored committee amendment #116, which was adopted in the full committee markup by voice vote. [330], In a 2014 opinion editorial in USA Today, Cruz wrote that auditing the Federal Reserve System was a top Republican priority in 2015 and that he supported legislation that would allow the Government Accountability Office to evaluate the Federal Reserve's monetary policy. [75] Cruz represented Toyota in an appeal to the Texas Supreme Court in a statute of limitations case, where a judge wanted to investigate Toyota for contempt after a former Toyota in-house lawyer accused Toyota of unlawfully withholding documents in a product liability case. "[374], In 2015, in the wake of severe flooding in Texas, Cruz supported federal aid funding; and in 2017, called for federal intervention as Hurricane Harvey approached the coast of Texas. Ted Cruz talks guns, same-sex marriage, Obamacare with Jay Leno, "Ted Cruz: Gay marriage decision one of 'darkest' in U.S. history - UPI.com", "Ted Cruz backs Senate candidate who said gay marriage ruling 'even worse' than slavery", "Sen. Ted Cruz Says Supreme Court Was Wrong In Same-Sex Marriage Ruling", "Ted Cruz says Texas should repeal ban on gay sex", "Ted Cruz's daughter, 2: 'I want to work with daddy', "Cruz's Wife Heidi to Take Unpaid Leave From Goldman", "Did Sen. Ted Cruz fly to Cancn during the Texas freeze? 115-63 "[165], In a heated Senate floor speech in July 2015, Cruz accused Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of telling "a flat-out lie" over his intentions to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank of the United States, which Cruz opposes. 09/12/2022 [105] There is no indication that Cruz's wife had any role in providing any of the loans, or that the banks did anything wrong. 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[252][253][254], Cruz won his widest margin up to that point in Kansas, where he beat front-runner Donald Trump by 25 points. He won in the general election on November 6, 2018. Cruz asserted that she had failed to prove that B. Braun had directed her to violate the law and that she had not presented sufficient evidence that her refusal to violate the law was why she had been fired. [259] On March 22, Cruz won the Utah Caucus with 69.2% of the vote, versus John Kasich with 16.8% and Trump with 14%. [258] On March 12, Cruz won the Wyoming county conventions with 67% of the vote and 9 delegates, giving him his eighth statewide win. Nomination Confirmed 98/2 on Apr 20, 2021. He won 36 of the 42 delegates available in Wisconsin. Cruz won with 4.5 million votes (56.4%) to Sadler's 3.2 million (40.6%). [10][19][20][21][22] Cruz has said that he is the son of "two mathematicians/computer programmers". 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. [155] On March 1, he called Trump's joint address to Congress the previous day "positive" and "unifying". [49] During the 2000 Florida presidential recounts, he assisted in assembling the Bush legal team, devising strategy, and drafting pleadings for filing with the Supreme Court of Florida and U.S. Supreme Court in the case Bush v. [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. 319 of P.L. Sec. [22][33], After high school, Cruz studied public policy at Princeton University. [141] In the same speech, Cruz invoked the speeches of the ancient Roman senator Cicero against Catiline to denounce Obama's planned executive actions on immigration reform. Ted Cruz sponsored a committee amendment to add Sec. In 2016, Cruz ran for president of the United States, placing second behind Donald Trump in the Republican primaries. 1225 of P.L. [408] In 2015, after the Supreme Court decision in Obergefell ruled same-sex marriage bans unconstitutional, he called the decision "the very definition of tyranny",[409] accused the court of judicial activism, and said it was "among the darkest hours of our nation. 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. [192] The Texas Democratic Party called on Cruz to resign, saying that his efforts to block Biden's lawful victory empowered the Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol. [287] The following day at the Texas Republican delegation breakfast, Cruz defended his choice to not endorse Trump: "I am not in the habit of supporting people who attack my wife and attack my father. In February 2021, during a historic winter storm, up to 4.3 million Texas residents were left without power and millions of others without drinking water, including Cruz and his family. Join 10 million other Americans using GovTrack to learn about and contact your representative and senators and track what Congress is doing each day. 116th Congress Bills Sponsored by Ted Cruz. [298], In July 2018, Cruz spoke at the Rally for Religious Freedom in Asia. Miriam died in 2011. [154] On February 23, while speaking at the 2017 CPAC, Cruz showed interest in Trump's nomination of a young justice in the mold of Scalia and Clarence Thomas. [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. ( All Actions) Tracker: Introduced Passed Senate Passed House To President Became Law BILL 2. [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. [113], As of November 2018, Cruz has sponsored 105 bills of his own, including:[114], Cruz had a leading role in the 2013 United States federal government shutdown. [245] The Iowa win made him the first Hispanic to win either a presidential primary election or caucus. 3(b)(9) of P.L. 30)Denial of admission to U.S. any U.N. representatives who have engaged in espionage or terrorism [243] He raised nearly $92 million, a record for a Republican primary candidate, much of it from small online donors. Sec. Sec. "[169] Cruz alleged that McConnell scheduled a vote on the Ex-Im Bank as part of a deal to persuade Democrats like Maria Cantwell to stop blocking a trade bill; McConnell denied there was any "deal", and that denial was what Cruz called a "lie". Sec. [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. 115-232 26 Ted Cruz Tried to Pass Legislation to Keep Kids Safe At School And Dems Filibustered It Ted Cruz Tried to Pass Legislation to Keep Kids Safe At School And Dems Filibustered It May 26, 2022 Stacey Warner Twitter 0 This story proves that Democrats don't care about protecting children or anyone else. Sec. [105] The loans were largely repaid by later campaign fundraising. 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