[WVKayaker]

...Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), however, objected, and said he was doing so on behalf of Cruz, who has spent much of the last week campaigning ...

Just doing the job that Ted Cruz is paid to do! Teddy Bare ays he really cares about the military and veterans, doesn't he? Is he a hypocrite and just a liar?

From Politico...

Ted Cruz came to Washington two-and-a-half years ago pledging to be the anti-senator. But he’s been more like the no-show senator. The Texas Republican seriously lags most of his colleagues in attending hearings and casting votes in what has been a Senate career long on rhetoric and short on Senate business. ...

... He's skipped the vast majority of Armed Services Committee hearings, is below-average in attendance on his other major committees and ranks 97th during the first three months of this year in showing up for roll call votes on the Senate floor. Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/ted-cruz-2016-senate-vote-record-117201#ixzz3zfJwdSrL

[blackdog]

How about the senate uses the internet to read legislation and cast their votes? I really don't see any benefit to their being in Washington DC?

That goes for both legislative bodies.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Nice spin but the Senate Republicans have been tag-teaming for fellow Senator, Ted Cruz.

Sen Lee had done the same thing on Feb. 3, 2016.

When Democrat Ben Cardin called on McConnell to “file cloture, which would force a procedural vote,” Mitch McConnell personally filled in and objected for Cruz and blocked it again.

[AllAmericanGirl44]

Thank you for that information. And I agree, it’s his job for goodness sake! Personally, I can’t reconcile this rush to run for POTUS as a first term senator. Do the job you were hired to do first. Then again, so many have no qualms about this.