Ted Cruz sponsored the Senate vehicle (S. 442), which was used for enactment. Cruz accused Blizzard and Apple of censorship. [83], On January 19, 2011, after U.S. [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". [419] She previously worked in the White House for Condoleezza Rice and in New York as an investment banker. "[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". The appeals court denied the appeal and affirmed the jury's award. Cruz's name is on two more laws as a cosponsor. Heidi took leave from her position as head of the Southwest Region in the Investment Management Division of Goldman, Sachs & Co. in 2016 to support Cruz's run for president. Two minor candidates garnered the remaining 3% of the vote. S.4845 117th Congress (2021-2022) Securing Our Schools Act of 2022 Sponsor: Cruz, Ted [Sen.-R-TX] (Introduced 09/14/2022) Cosponsors: ( 1 ) Committees: Senate - Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Latest Action: Senate - 09/14/2022 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. [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. Cruz was the primary sponsor of 15 bills that were enacted. 124 (113th): Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2015, 2021 Jan-Jan [136][137][138], In his first two years in the Senate, Cruz attended 17 of 50 public Armed Services Committee hearings, 3 of 25 Commerce Committee hearings, and 4 of the 12 Judiciary Committee hearings, and he missed 21 of 135 roll call votes during the first three months of 2015. [286], In his speech on July 20, the third day of the convention, Cruz congratulated Trump but did not endorse him. [citation needed], After law school, Cruz served as a law clerk for Judge J. Michael Luttig of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit from 1995 to 1996,[43][48] and then for Chief Justice William Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1996 to 1997. Cruz said he had been advised that the odds of contracting the virus were very low.[426]. 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. Nomination Confirmed 77/19 on May 8, 2019. Cruz said he was he was "leading the charge" to prevent Biden's certification as president. [200] Republican operative Chad Sweet, the chair of Cruz's 2016 presidential campaign, denounced Cruz for "assault on our democracy. 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. I want to urge Cruz to take an action on a bill. Sec. P.L. 33) FY 2014 NDAA: BRAC restriction Nomination Confirmed 75/18 on Dec 16, 2021. 115-245) Ted Cruz sponsored S.Amdt.3809, which was adopted by UC on the Senate floor and incorporated as Sec. [339], In early January 2017, Cruz, Texas governor Greg Abbott and some others met with Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen. 115-232 [49] At the firm, Cruz worked on matters relating to the National Rifle Association and helped prepare testimony for the impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton. 2282 as Sec. [325], In 2017, Cruz was one of 22 senators to sign a letter[326] addressed to Trump urging him to withdraw from the Paris Agreement. Well be in touch. [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. [248] On February 21, he placed third in the South Carolina Republican primary with about 22.3% of the vote. [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. Sec. 1852 was agreed to in the Senate by roll call vote on the floor. Verdict with Ted Cruz, on January 21, 2020. Ted Cruz sponsored committee amendment #117, which was adopted in the full committee markup by roll call vote. [386], During Donald Trump's presidency, Cruz and fellow Texas Senator John Cornyn contributed to the appointment of multiple conservative judges to federal courts with jurisdiction over Texas. Cruz faced the Democratic nominee, U.S. Representative Beto O'Rourke, in the general election. The chart is based on the bills Cruz has sponsored and cosponsored On November 6, 2018, Cruz defeated O'Rourke by a slim margin, 50.9% to 48.3%. It's endangering all of our safety and security. [269][272], Several lawsuits and ballot challenges asserting that Cruz was ineligible to become U.S. president were filed at the time. Senator Cruz urges broad Republican focus on energy, Whip List: How senators will vote on Keystone XL pipeline, "Rand Paul and Ted Cruz Join Forces Against the Fed", Voter Views on USA Freedom Act Bode Well for Graham and Rubio, Not Cruz and Paul, Trump, Cruz to hold joint anti-Iran rally on Capitol Hill, Ted Cruz On Iran Nuclear Negotiations: 'This Deal Makes War a Certainty', "America and Syria: To bomb, or not to bomb? [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. [4][44][53], In 2003, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott appointed Cruz to be the solicitor general of Texas. The Cruz campaign had more than 325,000 volunteers. [194][195][196] The Houston Chronicle called for Cruz to resign. [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. [301] In his 2012 Senate campaign, Cruz frequently mentioned his role as counsel for the State of Texas in Medelln v. Texas, a 2008 case in which the U.S. Supreme Court held that Texas has the right to ignore an order from the International Court of Justice directing the U.S. to review the convictions and sentences of dozens of Mexican nationals on death row. campaign of lies and conspiracy theories was a months-long, multifarious attempted coup. Cruz attacks Rubio on Planned Parenthood. 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. 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. Cruz was the primary sponsor of 15 bills that were enacted. [229], Cruz delivered one of many State of the Union responses in January 2015. 2 min read. [185][186], On January 6, 2021, during the debate about whether Congress should accept Arizona's electoral votes, Cruz said that 39% of Americans believed the 2020 presidential election was rigged, but that "I am not arguing for setting aside the result of this election". 1237 of P.L. [360] Chief Minister of the Northern Territory Michael Gunner's response to the tweet went viral quickly, garnering near universal support from Australians. "[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. Hackers/journalists/researchers: See these open data sources. [262][263][264][265] This gave Cruz his 11th state win. Sec. The measure would block semiconductor manufacturers funded by the bill from outsourcing their jobs and forbid them to dissuade their employees from forming unions. As Solicitor General, Cruz declined to vacate Haley's sentence, saying, "I think justice is being done because he had a full and fair trial and an opportunity to raise his errors. *: These candidates were constitutionally ineligible to serve as President or Vice President. Ted Cruz compares climate change activists to 'flat-Earthers.' ( All Actions ) Tracker: Introduced Passed Senate Passed House To President Became Law LAW 3. In effect, he accuses the president of high treason. [216] Later that day, he returned to Texas, after allowing his family to stay in Mexico, saying that the vacation was a mistake. 8112 of H.Rept.115-952 (P.L. He assumed office on January 3, 2013. 24) FY 2017 NDAA: Iran Cyber [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. 113-66 [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. Let the election decide. Trump received the other six. The chart below reports missed votes over time. [418] The couple met when Cruz was working on George W. Bush's 2000 presidential campaign. 115-10 318 of H.R.302 2) Arms Trade Treaty funding prohibition Sec. 4) FY 2019 NDAA: Fighting politicization of the security clearance process [119] In the U.S. Senate, former Majority Leader Harry Reid blocked the filibuster attempt because only 18 Republican senators supported the filibuster. 1235 of P.L. 115-232 [96] Former Attorney General Ed Meese served as national chairman of Cruz's campaign. 115-97 [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. This is [190], When Congress reconvened that evening to continue the count, Cruz voted to object to Arizona's and Pennsylvania's electoral votes. [310], Cruz has been described by the Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies as a "free trader"[311] and as a "free-trade advocate" by The Wall Street Journal. 11032 to the House vehicle used for enactment (H.R. [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. Otherwise, look for a phone number on that website to call his office if you have a question. [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. [39] At Princeton, Cruz was a member of Colonial Club. We hope to make GovTrack more useful to policy professionals like you. [258] He placed second in Michigan, Mississippi, and Hawaii. [53], Cruz won the runoff for the Republican nomination by a 14-point margin over Dewhurst, support for Dewhurst having plummeted while Cruz's vote total dramatically increased from the first round. [291] On November 15, he met with President-elect Trump at Trump Tower in New York City. Not all Members of Congress will accept messages from non-constituents. 116th Congress. Ted Cruz sponsored S. 1892, which is identical to Title V. Title V was included in the House vehicle used for enactment (H.R. Gun Ban Critic: Court Must Clarify Constitution", "Atheist Loses 2nd 'Under God' Court Appeal", "Most of Texas' redistricting map upheld", "U.N. court rules U.S. execution violated treaty", "David Brooks's Hypocritical Attack on Ted Cruz Reveals an Important Truth", "The 50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America", "The 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter-Century", "Luncheon Honors 25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter-Century", "Morgan Lewis Adds Texas Solicitor General", "Ted Cruz has always had a master plan. [302] He has called Medelln the most important case of his tenure as Texas solicitor general. 2 ) Arms Trade Treaty funding prohibition Sec an action on a bill conspiracy was! The virus were very low. 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