That’s ok.
Most Cruz supports cant name any of the guy they support either....because there aren’t any.
Cruz fought 9 Conservative causes before the Supreme Ct. and won 5.
He took his law firm to one of the top appellate firms in the country.
In the Senate he fought Obamacare, penned many amendments and fought amnesty and per Sessions helped prevent Obama’s plan. He had one bill pass and signed and that was that no terror suspect or spy could be a U.N. rep.
He’s only been there a little over two years, less than Rubio and that’s a pretty good record for a freshman.
Seriously? Does FR have amnesia? Why the sudden turn on Cruz?
1) He shut down the Senate (with a filibuster) for its failure to manage spending. This led to a government shutdown, which we all applauded at the time, and the GOP took the Senate in the next election because Cruz was the only one to show that the GOP was serious about stopping the Democrats. Without this, no one would believe the GOP had any intention of doing anything.
2) He has called out the GOP leadership by name and put them on notice... and on the news. This has led to the GOP having to take him seriously and at least give lip-service to conservatives rather than their preferred method of ignoring them.
3) He had only one bill that was passed by both houses and signed by Obama--but it was a good one. Again, this occurred because he can't be ignored. In April 2014, Cruz introduced legislation to prevent representatives to the United Nations who are believed to be spies or terrorists from entering the country. It was approved unanimously by the House and Senate, and signed into law only weeks after having been introduced.
4) He isn't a do-nothing Senator... In the 113th Congress, Cruz introduced 25 bills, and he’s put forth another 10 so far in the current session. The 25 he introduced last session put him near the middle of the pack of Senate Republicans. He ranked 18th out of the 45 Republicans in the last Senate for most bills introduced.
Of the 25 bills Cruz introduced in the 113th Congress, only two made it through the Senate. However, only three Republican Senators in the last Congress got more than two bills through the upper chamber, making Cruz the fourth most successful in his party.
5) Cruz has a history of breaking with GOP leadership on votes, although it’s not as extreme as one might suppose. In 684 votes spanning his entire time in the Senate, Cruz has bucked party leadership 73 times. The GOPe doesn't do ALL bad things... but when they do, Cruz opposes them.
6) Cruz has given 217 speeches on the floor of the Senate. The last four speeches Cruz gave on the Senate floor came in January in support of a bill to authorize the Keystone XL oil sands pipeline. The 213 floor speeches Cruz gave over the course of the 113th Congress ranked him as the fifth most active Senate floor speaker.
Cruz has trumpeted his high-profile opposition to Democratic initiatives in Congress. “What we’ve accomplished over and over again in many instances is stopping bad things from happening,†Cruz said.
I want him to have real authority to keep doing what is right.
Oh wait, what he does and has said doesn't matter. What's today's flavor? Cruz is a Canadian? Stole Iowa? Carson is a great man after I told everyone he was pathological?
How about Jimmy Carter backdoor endorsing Trump? Does that get your motor revving?
You must cut and paste. Original thought is nowhere to be found.
Chairman of the subcommittee on the Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts, U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee.
He is also the chairman of the subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee.
Between 1999 and 2003, Cruz served as the director of the Office of Policy Planning at the ‘Federal Trade Commission’, an associate deputy attorney general at the United States ‘Department of Justice’, and as domestic policy advisor to U.S. President George W. Bush on the 2000 Bush-/ Cheney campaign.
Partner at the law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, where he led the firm’s U.S. Supreme Court and national appellate litigation practice. Cruz served as a law clerk to Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Cruz was the first Hispanic ever to clerk for a Chief Justice of the United States.
Cruz has authored 80+ SCOTUS briefs and presented 40+ oral arguments before The Court In the landmark case of District of Columbia v. Heller, Cruz assembled a coalition of 31 states in defense of the principle that the 2nd Amendment guarantees an individual right to keep and bear arms.
He served as ‘Solicitor General of Texas’ from 2003 to May 2008, after being appointed by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott..... He was the first Hispanic, the youngest and the longest-serving solicitor general in Texas history.
Cruz also successfully defended, in Medellin v. Texas, the State of Texas against an attempt by the International Court of Justice to re-open the criminal convictions of 51 murderers on death row throughout the United States.
Cruz was also an “adjunct professor of law” at the University of Texas School of Law” in Austin, from 2004 to 2009............. While there, “he taught U.S. Supreme Court litigation.”.....
Cruz was the Republican nominee for the Senate seat vacated by fellow Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison..... On July 31, 2012, he defeated Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst in the Republican primary runoff. Cruz defeated former state Representative Paul Sadler, in the general election, on November 6, 2012. He prevailed over Sadler......
Cruz has been endorsed by the Republican Liberty Caucus....... On November 14, 2012, Cruz was appointed vice-chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Committee.
AWARDS: "America's Leading Lawyers for Business," Chambers USA (2009 & 2010) "50 Most Influential Minority Lawyers in America," National Law Journal (2008) "25 Greatest Texas Lawyers of the Past Quarter Century," Texas Lawyer (2010) "20 Young Hispanic Americans on the Rise," Newsweek (1999) Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus, Harvard Law School
Yep, just been sitting on his hands.