Ted Cruz actually said...

"Only the most naive would believe that going forward with this transition will assuage the government of China from implementing their own Internet censorship regime."

"could commit ICANN to potentially troubling enforcement obligations for human rights"

"No multistakeholder system can be devised that will ever be as effective at protecting the free and open Internet as the current U.S. Government and the protections of the U.S. Constitution."

"Inclusion of such a commitment would unquestionably be outside the historical mission of an organization whose functions are supposedly very limited to the names and numbers and protocol parameters."