Ted Cruz

Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act remains in full force, and its protections are entirely in place.

The case against the church there strikes you as a 'strong case for the employee'

It is hard to imagine what decisions are beyond the ambit of federal courts

Their decision to teach abstinence only may well be unconstitutional

The arguments you have presented here today may well be sound policy arguments, why abstinence only should not be the curriculum

I believe is an attempt by this administration to pack that court because the DC Circuit has been one of the few restraints on government power exercised by the Obama administration.

The Democrats in the Senate repeatedly stopped qualified, excellent nominees to the court, including Peter Keisler, including, I think most indefensibly, Miguel Estrada, where a Democratic staffer put in a memo that the reason to stop…

Questions for all nominees submitted by Senator Ted Cruz

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

Do we have your commitment that you would not let political correctness impede efforts to connect the dots and to prevent terrorism?

I agree with that answer, and the current administration has not always been so forthcoming in providing that answer.

You know, anytime the Bureau is asked or the Department is asked to investigate allegations of wrongdoing by the administration...

The balance has been wrong on the one hand, not fully respecting the constitutional rights of United States citizens...

I like and agree with his analogy about cutting up a credit card. Indeed, if my friend from Colorado supports anything resembling Congress cutting up the credit card, that will truly be a dramatic position, a position on which he and I…

If I may ask my friend two questions on the two topics he addressed, the first being the debt ceiling, the second being immigration. On the debt ceiling, the question I will ask is, Does my friend from Colorado believe Congress should…

Reserving the right to object, I would note the comment from my friend from Washington suggesting a motion to instruct the conferees. What she of course knows is that is a typical Washington maneuver, because the motion to instruct is…

I thank my friend from Louisiana. I was handed that list about an hour and a half ago today. I looked at the titles on the list but I have not had the time to study the specifics. I don't know if I have any substantive objections to those…

You have spent many decades in public service focused on law enforcement, and indeed, I recall when we were working together at the Department of Justice, almost every day in the morning at staff meeting, the question you would ask was…

We had considerable evidence with the Tsarnaev brothers of their affiliation with radical Islamic views, their advocacy of those views.

I am concerned that this administration's priorities in the war on terror have been misallocated;

As you know well, in any investigation that is in a highly politicized climate, that involves potentially corruption and political interference from the White House, the investigation is a perilous endeavor and an endeavor of significant…

The FBI was aware of that, and yet we failed to stop that terrorist attack.

Well, I would certainly urge the FBI not to narrowly circumscribe the scope, because the last time there was an instance of an administration trying to use the IRS to target political enemies, it was the Nixon administration, and it led to…

I want to echo some of the concerns that Senator Sessions raised about the groups that we know were targeted by the IRS that are reporting that they have yet to be contacted or interviewed by the FBI.

President Obama needs to tell the truth. When Richard Nixon tried to use the IRS to target his political enemies it was wrong, and when the Obama administration does it, it's still wrong.