Ted Cruz actually said...

"I would note there is unfortunately no rule in the Senate that allows a private citizen whose name is being dragged through the mud by the Majority Leader of the Senate for partisan political purposes..."

"The expenditure of money has been integral to speech."

"In our history, Democrats have been willing to do that, and we are in a strange point in time when Democrats abandon the First Amendment."

"Nobody has disagreed with the litany of harms that could occur if Congress passed this bill."