25) FY 2016 NDAA: Update Annual Iran Military Power Report [133][134][135], Under the headline "A bipartisan message to Iran", Cruz thanked President Barack Obama for signing S. 2195 into law. [304], In an interview with radio host Hugh Hewitt discussing the attack that killed three people at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Cruz said that "the simple and undeniable fact is the overwhelming majority of violent criminals are Democrats", and claimed that Democrats are "soft on crime" because "convicted felons tend to vote Democratic. Ted Cruz sponsored committee amendment #59, which was adopted in the full committee markup. [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. While Cruz initially declined to endorse Trump's campaign once he won the nomination, he became a staunch Trump supporter during his presidency. 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Ted Cruz Says". [37][38][39] Princeton's debate team named their annual novice championship after Cruz. [190], When Congress reconvened that evening to continue the count, Cruz voted to object to Arizona's and Pennsylvania's electoral votes. [22][33], After high school, Cruz studied public policy at Princeton University. [324] Proponents of the bill argued that it would provide steady funding to support research and restoration projects, funded primarily by dedicating 12.5% of revenues from offshore energy development, including oil, gas, and renewable energy, through offshore lease sales and production based royalty payments, distributed through a competitive grant program. [133] Aboutalebi was involved in the Iran hostage crisis, in which of a number of American diplomats from the Embassy of the United States, Tehran were held captive in 1979. 115-63 [313] Cruz is "adamantly opposed to a higher minimum wage". The next day CNN reported that Cruz had characterized the attack as terrorism at least 17 times during the preceding year. 1273 of P.L. 32) FY 2014 NDAA: IG report on religious liberty [291] On November 15, he met with President-elect Trump at Trump Tower in New York City. [339], In early January 2017, Cruz, Texas governor Greg Abbott and some others met with Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen. Join 10 million other Americans using GovTrack to learn about and contact your representative and senators and track what Congress is doing each day. [395] He has argued that net neutrality is the "Obamacare for the internet". [50][63], Michael Wayne Haley was arrested for stealing a calculator from Walmart in 1997. [29] Cruz attended two private high schools: Faith West Academy, near Katy, Texas;[30] and Second Baptist High School in Houston, from which he graduated as valedictorian in 1988. [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. Otherwise, try contacting your own senator: You are currently on the website GovTrack.us, which has no affiliation with Cruz and is not a government website. We hope to make GovTrack more useful to policy professionals like you. 416 of P.L. "[299], Cruz has called for an end to "overcriminalization, harsh mandatory minimum sentences, and the demise of jury trials". 1091 of P.L. In 2012, Cruz was elected to the U.S. Senate, becoming the first Hispanic-American[2] to serve as a U.S. senator from Texas. 115-245) [56] Cruz has said, "We ended up year after year arguing some of the biggest cases in the country. Cruz outlined his legislation in an interview with CBS 11 on Tuesday. Little did I know how closely Swalwell was listening. Calgary homeowner hopes it never happens", "Texplainer: Could Canadian-Born Ted Cruz Be President? 18) NASA Transition Authorization Act Nomination Confirmed 77/19 on May 8, 2019. [380] He has called for the repeal of the clause of the 14th amendment that grants citizenship to those born in the United States. Sec. Cruz, who had previously argued nine cases before the Supreme Court, agreed to Trump's request to argue the Paxton suit should it come before the Court, though it did not. [401][402], Cruz is strongly anti-abortion, but "would allow the procedurewhen a pregnancy endangers the mother's life". "[309], In May 2022, after the Robb Elementary School shooting, Cruz blamed mass shootings on declining church attendance, violent video games, prescription drugs, cyberbullying, social isolation, and other societal factors. The bill was co-sponsored by Senators Mike Braun (R-IN) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA). 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. Cruz faced the Democratic nominee, U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke, in the general election. [98][99], In the November 6 general election, Cruz faced Democratic nominee Paul Sadler, an attorney and a former state representative from Henderson, Texas. [269] In August 2013, after the Dallas Morning News pointed out that he had dual Canadian-American citizenship,[270][271] he applied to formally renounce his Canadian citizenship and ceased being a citizen of Canada on May 14, 2014. Please help us make GovTrack better address the needs of educators by joining our advisory group. [318][319] In March 2015, he said that some people are "global warming alarmists" and, citing satellite temperature measurements, said, contrary to NASA's analysis, that there had been no significant warming in 18 years. [252][253][254], Cruz won his widest margin up to that point in Kansas, where he beat front-runner Donald Trump by 25 points. [245] The Iowa win made him the first Hispanic to win either a presidential primary election or caucus. [400] In 2022, Cruz voted against Bernie Sanders's proposed measure for the United States Innovation and Competition Act, which promised to fund semiconductor manufacturers amid a shortage of their products during the COVID-19 pandemic. [248] On February 21, he placed third in the South Carolina Republican primary with about 22.3% of the vote. [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. [419] She previously worked in the White House for Condoleezza Rice and in New York as an investment banker. "[422] He is fond of wearing cowboy boots, but he refrained from doing so when arguing before the Rehnquist court. You are encouraged to reuse any material on this site. 115-97 Why isn't that a bigger deal? Sec. U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, was the sole Republican to vote against advancing bipartisan voting legislation out of the Senate Rules Committee. The Securing Our Schools Act of 2022 would have provided $15 billion to double the number of school resource officers, $10. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) introduced the bill Thursday, which would modify legislation they sponsored last year that was signed into law by President Trump as part of the annual defense bill. 533 of P.L. 114-328 Perry. Sponsored legislation by Ted Cruz, the Senator from Texas - in Congress from 2023 through Present the junior senator from Texas See full analysis methodology. 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 . That's wrong. [255] With his victories over Trump in Texas, Kansas, and Maine, he established himself as the candidate with the best opportunity to defeat Trump, the leading contender for the nomination. During oral argument, Cruz conceded that Haley had a very strong argument for ineffective assistance of counsel since Haley's attorney failed to recognize the sentencing error and that he would not move to have Haley re-incarcerated during the appeal process. 1). Sponsored A bill to prohibit the use of Federal and local funds to impose or enforce a COVID-19 vaccine mandate in District of Columbia schools, and to repeal the Coronavirus Immunization of School Students and Early Childhood Workers Regulation Amendment Act of 2021 enacted by the District of Columbia Council. Nomination Confirmed 98/2 on Apr 20, 2021. 10) FY 2019 NDAA: Fort Bliss Armed Services Blood Program [44][43][55], In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case surrounding a challenge to the constitutionality of public schools' requiring students to recite the Pledge of Allegiance (including the words "under God", legally a part of the Pledge since 1954), Elk Grove Unified School District v. [215], Cruz's political allies and rivals condemned him for leaving Texas during a crisis and traveling internationally during the COVID-19 pandemic. 114-328 Sens. He won in the general election on November 6, 2018. The new measures would expand sanctions to cover any entity that aids NS2's completion. 8) FY 2019 NDAA: Enhancement of U.S.-Israel defense cooperation Their attempts Ted Cruz sponsored S.Amdt.3809, which was adopted by UC on the Senate floor and incorporated as Sec. Perry. [381] He defends the Trump administration's policy of separating migrant children from their parents,[382][383] blaming the migrant parents for crossing the U.S. border to seek asylum and claiming that the Obama administration maintained a similar policy. Cruz also thanked senators from both political parties for "swiftly passing this legislation and sending it to the White House". He was reelected in a close Senate race in 2018 against Democratic candidate Beto O'Rourke. 28) FY 2015 NDAA: Purple Heart eligibility [50], After Bush took office, Cruz served as an associate deputy attorney general in the United States Department of Justice[4][53] and as the director of policy planning at the Federal Trade Commission. Now What? 4) FY 2019 NDAA: Fighting politicization of the security clearance process 115-232 Choose from the options above to find the right way to contact Cruz. campaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup. [17][31][32] During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group known at the time as the Free Market Education Foundation, a program that taught high school students the philosophies of economists such as Milton Friedman and Frdric Bastiat. Ted Cruz compares climate change activists to 'flat-Earthers.' [12][43][73] At Morgan Lewis, he led the firm's U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice. A member of the Republican Party, Cruz served as Solicitor General of Texas from 2003 to 2008. [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. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced the Senate companion to U.S . Sec. Let the election decide. Home | Senator Ted Cruz Contact Ted Find Assistance 12.08.2022 Statement From Cruz Office On Brittney Griner Announcement 12.06.2022 Sen. Cruz's Bipartisan Bill to Address Unsolved Lynching and Murder Cases Signed into Law Senator Cruz Senator Ted Cruz @SenTedCruz Tweets by @SenTedCruz This browser does not support the embedded Twitter feed. Please join our advisory group to let us know what more we can do. 11) FY 2019 NDAA: Air Force core sampling After graduating from Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Cruz pursued a career in politics. [197] The San Antonio Express News called for Cruz to be expelled from the Senate. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. [12][41] Cruz graduated from Princeton in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts cum laude. Ted Cruz sponsored a committee amendment to add Sec. Ted Cruz sponsored committee amendment #449, which was adopted in the full committee markup in managers package #1. Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz and a group of 13 additional GOP senators have introduced a new bill to protect military service members from punishment for declining the COVID-19 vaccine. [269][272], Several lawsuits and ballot challenges asserting that Cruz was ineligible to become U.S. president were filed at the time. [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. [50] In 1998, Cruz was briefly one of the attorneys who represented Representative John Boehner during his litigation against Representative Jim McDermott over the alleged leak of an illegal recording of a phone conversation whose participants included Boehner. 113-66 1286 of P.L. "[306], Cruz opposes the legalization of marijuana, but believes it should be decided at the state level. [162] Cruz's role in the United States federal government shutdown of 2013 in particular attracted criticism from a number of Republican colleagues. 1852 was agreed to in the Senate by roll call vote on the floor. Kelly, Amita. 17) North Korea State Sponsor of Terrorism Designation Act [292] On November 28, in light of Trump showing a softer tone on his campaign promises, Cruz warned that justified backlash could ensue if he strayed from them. Were looking for feedback from educators about how GovTrack can be used and improved for your classroom. "[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". Ted Cruz sponsored committee amendment #116, which was adopted in the full committee markup. "[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. [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. [84] In the Republican primary, he ran against sitting Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst. 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Nomination Confirmed 80/19 on May 12, 2022. That pledge was not a blanket commitment that if you go and slander and attack Heidi, that I'm going to nonetheless come like a servile puppy dog and say, 'Thank you very much for maligning my wife and maligning my father. American politician, attorney (born 1970), "Senator Cruz" redirects here. [312] In 2013, he proposed the abolition of the IRS and the implementation of a flat tax "where the average American can fill out taxes on a postcard". [219], As early as 2013, Cruz was widely expected to run for the presidency in 2016. 324 was included in the House vehicle used for enactment (H.R. Visit us on Mastodon He is 52 years old. [397] In December 2017, after the Republican-controlled Federal Communications Commission repealed net neutrality, he mocked supporters of net neutrality as "snowflakes" who were misled by "online propaganda". [375], Cruz took a "hard-line stance" on immigration issues during the 2014 border crisis[376] and opposes comprehensive immigration reform. The most recent include: S. 4411 (117th): A bill to designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 5302 Galveston Road in Houston, Texas, as the "Vanessa Guillen Post Office Building". Ted Cruz sponsored committee amendment #126, which was adopted in the full committee markup in managers package #1. 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. According to an official press release from . Cruz won with 4.5 million votes (56.4%) to Sadler's 3.2 million (40.6%). Taxation (19%) [403][404] He is in favor of cutting federal funding to Planned Parenthood. 5325) is an appropriations . He instead told listeners to "vote your conscience, vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom and to be faithful to the Constitution". [166][167] In the same speech, Cruz assailed the "Republican majority in both houses of Congresses" for what he called an insufficiently conservative record. Visit us on Instagram, U.S. post offices are named after everyone from rock singer Ritchie Valens to Marilyn Monroe. Murney, Micheal. "[359], In October 2021, Cruz posted a tweet that was critical of Australia's Northern Territory's vaccine mandates. 34) A bill to designate the United States courthouse located at 101 East Pecan Street in Sherman, Texas, as the Paul Brown United States Courthouse. The attack resulted in the deaths of five people, including a police officer. Sec. Sec. [260] Because he surpassed the 50% winner-take-all threshold, he won all 40 of Utah's delegates. Title V of P.L. Cruz also garnered the support of ten other senators for a plan by his decades-long friend, Trump attorney John Eastman, to delay the January 6 electoral vote certification for ten days to allow Republican legislatures in six key states Biden had won to consider submitting slates of Trump electors, based on false allegations of widespread voting fraud. 2469, the language of which was incorporated into S.Amdt. [35] Referring to Cruz's time as a student at Harvard Law, professor Alan Dershowitz said that Cruz was "off-the-charts brilliant. today introduced the Safe Kids, Safe Schools, Safe Communities Act of 2022, legislation that would dedicate over $38 billion to make our schools and communities safer, including funding enhanced school security and doubling the number of school resource officers in America's schools, investing in school mental . [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. If you can, please take a few minutes to help us improve GovTrack for users like you. [200] Republican operative Chad Sweet, the chair of Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign, denounced Cruz for "assault on our democracy. "[338], In September 2016, Cruz backed the Obama administration's plan to sell more than $1.15 billion worth of weapons to Saudi Arabia. If you teach United States government and would like to speak with us about bringing legislative data into your classroom, please reach out! Trump received the other six. S. 5127: Informing Consumers about Smart Devices Act, S. 5085: A bill to prohibit the government of the District of Columbia from using , S. 5053: A bill to provide for the meaningful participation of Taiwan in the International , S. 4845: Securing Our Schools Act of 2022, S. 4843: Taiwan Symbols of Sovereignty (SOS) Act of 2022, On the Nomination PN1522: Jerome H. Powell, of Maryland, to be Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal , On the Nomination PN1057: R. Nicholas Burns, of Massachusetts, to be Ambassador to the People's Republic of China, S. 914 (117th): Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021, On the Nomination PN79-10: Lisa O. Monaco, of the District of Columbia, to be Deputy Attorney General, On the Nomination PN54: Judith DelZoppo Pryor, of Ohio, to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the , H.J.Res. 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