Name the 3 bills sponsored by Cruz and passed into law
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.
Is that how we’re evaluating Presidential candidates now?