âThis was an attempt to kill the bill,â Sen. Chuck Schumer, co-author of the Gang of Eight bill said of Cruzâs amendment. âAnd there was no doubt at the time that Senator Cruz knew it would do exactly that.â
That's what Cruz claims now;it isn't what he claimed back then.
“This was an attempt to kill the bill,”Sen. Chuck Schumer, co-author of the Gang of Eight bill said of Cruz’s amendment. “And there was no doubt at the time that Senator Cruz knew it would do exactly that.”