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Sen. Ted Cruz blocks confirmation of Tom Wheeler, nominee for FCC chairman
Washington Post ^ | 10/17/13 | Cecilia Kang

Posted on 10/17/2013 8:16:56 PM PDT by Nachum

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) lost his battle against the new health-care law but he already has a new target in sight: the Federal Communications Commission. The tea party member late Wednesday blocked the confirmation of Tom Wheeler as chairman of the FCC, saying he wanted greater assurance from President Obama’s nominee that the agency wouldn’t require more funding disclosures for political TV ads. Cruz has said that such free speech should be protected. When asked about the issue in a June confirmation hearing, Wheeler demurred, saying he would study the issue.

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KEYWORDS: blocks; cruz; fcc; tedcruz; texas; tomwheeler; wheeler
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To: cripplecreek
This may not seem very "Big" in the grand scheme of things.

But those Small things add up fast.

This is exactly what we should be doing!

21 posted on 10/17/2013 8:31:26 PM PDT by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

-— No compromise at all on anything. Fight every single issue to the bitter end, regardless of the odds.

We need to turn the government bureaucrat’s ability to accomplish anything into frozen sludge. ——

Amen. Who wouldn’t rather participate in a good fight, rather than have your nose rubbed in it every day?


22 posted on 10/17/2013 8:32:28 PM PDT by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: Nachum

Yay! Go Sen. Cruz. Thank you for representing We the People. We are looking for support to send to you in Congress. God Bless You.


23 posted on 10/17/2013 8:32:34 PM PDT by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: Nachum

If Ted Cruz does not give a crap of what Obama, the Democrats, the MSM think and only cares what the people who voted him in and the rest of us think, then ? I am good with that..... as it should be.


24 posted on 10/17/2013 8:33:15 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: Nachum

RUN CRUZ RUN ! FIGHT CRUZ FIGHT ! RIGHT ON RIGHT ON RIGHT ON BROTHA !


25 posted on 10/17/2013 8:34:17 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: KC_Lion

He knows how to stay in the papers.


26 posted on 10/17/2013 8:35:28 PM PDT by mylife (Ted Cruz understands the law, and he does not fear the unlawful.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

It’s more than stop being nice and “ Getting along “ with fascist, it’s more like putting them in their place and put the genie back in the bottle.


27 posted on 10/17/2013 8:35:39 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: FReepers; Patriots; FRiends

Senator Cruz RULES!




Final FReepathon of the Year!

PLEASE Make Your Donations!

28 posted on 10/17/2013 8:37:26 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Nachum

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3080222/posts


29 posted on 10/17/2013 8:37:53 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: Nachum

Hey anyone can dream, how about Tom Delay as the new house speaker ? and Ted Cruz as the Senate majority leader....


30 posted on 10/17/2013 8:39:03 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist
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To: Tupelo
To come out of a major battle, shift the focus nearly 180° and attack.

Yeah, that does remind me of a few people.

A very few.

.

31 posted on 10/17/2013 8:40:56 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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To: Nachum

Good. The FCC has become pathetic, and this dope will make it even woese.


32 posted on 10/17/2013 8:43:11 PM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: Tupelo

Davey Crockett was a feather-headed loon.

He was the first Obamaite to serve in congress, and was thrown out of office for trying to make gifts of the taxpayers’ money.


33 posted on 10/17/2013 8:43:54 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Nachum

‘Bout time a GOP BLOCKED something!!!!


34 posted on 10/17/2013 8:59:07 PM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: Nachum

What kind of chaos would a successful conservative party with Cruz in it create in Congress with the plans of the Marxists?

Someday I hope the rotten GOP goes the way of the Dinosaur and we get a better party to fight the Dems.


35 posted on 10/17/2013 9:11:32 PM PDT by ZULU (Impeach that Bastard Barrack Hussein Obama)
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To: ZULU

Bttt


36 posted on 10/17/2013 9:33:01 PM PDT by Guenevere (....)
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To: American Constitutionalist

That’s a legal dream, right?


37 posted on 10/17/2013 9:43:54 PM PDT by des
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To: Nachum

I Cruz with Ted.


38 posted on 10/17/2013 9:44:43 PM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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To: American Constitutionalist

OOOO Bedtime is nearing for me. Thank you for giving me that image. That is one I would strongly support. Now I can lay my head on the pillow and dream away and praying that I would wake up to that. Sigh......May God grant you your wish and ours too =)


39 posted on 10/17/2013 11:03:18 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: JRandomFreeper

I live in the People’s Republik of Illinoisistan. I have not a Senator to turn to here in the Parasite’s Paradise (Demorat Dicky Durbin and Rino Mark Kirk), so I sent a campaign donation to Cruz to continue his fight on my behalf.


40 posted on 10/18/2013 1:20:38 AM PDT by Lawgvr1955 (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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