Posted on 03/10/2016 12:08:40 AM PST by Sun
..youngest Solicitor General in the entire country and the longest tenure in Texas history(snip)
Authored over 80 SCOTUS briefs and presented over 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
* Presented oral arguments before the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
* Defended the Ten Commandments monument on the Texas State Capitol grounds,
* Defended the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance in public schools(snip)
He has sponsored 97 bills. Here are a few crucial pieces of legislation sponsored by Cruz: * ObamaCare Repeal Act(snip)
CONSTITUTION=FREEDOM!!
(Excerpt) Read more at thecommontruth.net ...
Actually the case involving the 2A and the right of the individual to own firearms was won by Attorney John Ashcroft.
As of March 2015:
Give me an example where you have successfully compromised in the United States Senate with Democrats,” Bash asked Cruz on CNN’s State of the Union March 29.
Cruz mentioned his sponsorship of a bill that denied admission to the United States any United Nations representative who poses a national security threat (a response to Iran’s chosen U.N. representative). The bill passed unanimously in both the Senate and the House.
But that bill that was non-controversial, and it is the only bill Cruz has passed in his two years in office, Bash added.
“It’s fair that there’s just one piece of legislation that is now law with your name on it?” she asked.
We looked through Cruz’s legislative history on Congressional Quarterly’s database and found that since he became a senator in January 2013, he has been the main sponsor on 44 bills and a cosponsor on 187.
Of those on which he was the primary sponsor, only one passed, as Bash said.
This bill, the one Cruz mentioned in the interview, passed unanimously in April 2014 and was intended to stop Iran’s proposed U.N. envoy from entering the United States. Iranian Ambassador Hamid Aboutalebi was involved in holding more than 50 Americans hostage in the U.S. Embassy in Iran in the 1970s.
Cruz’s name is on two more laws as a cosponsor. He was one of 80 senators to cosponsor a July 2014 bill to enhance cooperative programs between the United States and Israel. He also joined a bipartisan group of 22 senators behind an August 2014 bill establishing a special envoy to promote religious freedom in parts of Asia.
It’s worth noting that many of the bills Cruz cosponsored were Senate resolutions, which are legislative measures that don’t go to the president and don’t carry the force of law, such as a resolution that commemorates the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz. Many of these passed. He’s also had measures pass through the Senate as a sponsor or cosponsor, even if they didn’t eventually become law. http://www.politifact.com/punditfact/statements/2015/mar/29/dana-bash/how-many-bills-has-ted-cruz-passed-senate/
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/ted_cruz/412573
At this link you can review any sponsored bill by any senator and see a rating of it’s probability of passing. Other stats are also tracked including:
From Jan 2013 to Mar 2016, Cruz missed 155 of 1,029 roll call votes, which is 15.1%. This is much worse than the median of 1.7% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
I was unaware of Cruz’s record in many particulars.
Obama has sponsored loads of legislation. Did you vote for him?
America needs a man who says NO: who will roll back big Government. It does not need someone who blindly creates more rules and regulation.
I’m too young to know enough details about Ike.
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He enforced “Operation Wetback”, which deported millions of illegals from the US to provide returning military veterans jobs. Ike also was key in implementing the vast US Interstate Highway System.
Many high level gov’t. office holders have had extramarital affairs: JFK and Jackie both, RFK, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Eleanor Roosevelt, et al.
Do I really need to post your past comments about trump again? I really don’t want to humiliate you...again. Or will you just voluntarily crawl back under your rock?
“you fit right into Trump’s low education lobby.”
Here’s a tip:
Calling people stupid makes them even less likely to ever support Cruz under any circumstances.
Yeah but he never had a reality tv show.
We don’t know who Donald Trump’s donors are because they haven’t paid him back the money he has loaned to his campaign (yet). He’ll be able to collect that money down the road.
He didn’t GIVE the money to his own campaign.
Here is another example of Cruz arguing for his cause—this time the Gr8 bill, provided his amendment is attached.
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Did you purposely leave out the part of the Cruz amendment that said the illegals would never be given US citizenship?
That was the poison pill in the amendment that helped kill the Gang of 8 amnesty bill, because the Dems wanted more voters for Dems.
This amendment had exactly zero to do with killing the Gr8 bill.
What executive branch experience does he have, none.
Gr8 = Go8
You forgot defending Chinese business interests to hurt Americans
Cruz allowed himself to be compromised by accepting GOPe PAC money.
Mid 2015, some of that PAC money went from Cruz to his opponent iCarly (FEC still investigating, waiting for Dems to pounce??).
March 2016 > GOPe iCarly made partial payment on that transaction by endorsing Cruz.
Solicitor General is the office that Cruz held prior to the US Senate. From the Solicitor General website, we learn this:
“The Solicitor General of Texas is supported by two deputies, over a dozen assistant solicitors general and a highly dedicated support staff.”
In short, this says that Cruz had 2 deputies and a dozen assistants. If each of them had 2 deputies and a dozen assistants, then the support staff is about 200 people.
Cruz managed 200 people.
I assume his Senate staff is about the same.
His resume says that he has managed about half to a third the amount of people that a battalion commander lieutenant colonel in the US army manages.
That’s not insignificant, but it isn’t extraordinary by any means.
Trump, if elected, will have no chance to avoid implementing immigration and Mohammedan views. Congress won’t let him; they’d impeach him. The people won’t let him; they would march on Versailles. The media won’t let him; they’ll hold him accountable on a daily basis.
All of which benefits we the people - if he makes good on his promises; if not, he’ gone and the VP gets a shot.
Yes. I think he's good at capitalizing on peoples' anger and also their tendency to gravitate to who is perceived as the "toughest guy on the block". It's all about perception. Reason, logic, and information doesn't seem to influence many (not saying all) of his supporters. It seems like a lot of show and very little substance. I know many folks will disagree and that's fine with me.
“Solicitor General in the entire country and the longest tenure in Texas history(snip)”
Wow, and that goes all the way back to it’s start in 1999 too!
This by your standards is against the 2nd Amendment? Not in my book and this from 2000.
Dems and Reps are both wrong on guns
It’s often argued that the American murder rate is high because guns are more available here than in other countries. Democrats want to confiscate all guns, which is a dumb idea because only the law-abiding citizens would turn in their guns and the bad guys would be the only ones left armed. The Republicans walk the NRA line and refuse even limited restrictions.
Source: The America We Deserve, by Donald Trump, p.102 , Jul 2, 2000
For assault weapon ban, waiting period, & background check
I generally oppose gun control, but I support the ban on assault weapons and I support a slightly longer waiting period to purchase a gun. With today’s Internet technology we should be able to tell within 72-hours if a potential gun owner has a record.
Source: The America We Deserve, by Donald Trump, p.102 , Jul 2, 2000
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