Why did Cruz etc wait till after it was agreed upon to do this?
They didn’t.
The Corker deal was already accepted beforehand. Cruz voted against the initial Corker deal too.
They didn’t.
The Corker deal was already accepted beforehand. Cruz voted against the initial Corker deal too.
The Cruz statement is from April 24 - he DIDN’T wait.
Why indeed? The idea that you can do a thing and then deny you did it without penalty, only exists in DC.
One thing I learned many years ago by watching special orders on C-SPAN was when ever a speaker rose he always asked for unanimous Consent to revise and extend his remarks, even to include extraneous materials. That gives him the ability to say one thing on the floor and revise the record to show he said something entirely different, so recorded records are just so much bat dung.