I’d rather have him miss that vote than flip flop on issues...
WASHINGTON (AP) – Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz delivered an impassioned speech on the Senate floor against confirming Loretta Lynch, calling her unsuitable to be attorney general.
Then he was the lone senator to skip the confirmation vote.
“We have a nominee who has told the United States Senate she is unwilling to impose any limits whatsoever on the authority of the President of the United States,” Cruz said. “In the next 20 months, we are sadly going to see more and more lawlessness, more recklessness, more abuse of power, more executive lawlessness.”
Cruz said that based on Lynch’s answers at her confirmation hearing, in which she supported President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration, “in my opinion render her unsuitable for confirmation as attorney general of the United States.”
He concluded his remarks at 11:23 a.m. EDT and cast a procedural vote against moving ahead on her nomination. When the roll was called at 1:37 p.m. for the final vote, Cruz was absent.”