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Ted Cruz

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Ted Cruz is a United States Senator from Texas, serving since January 3, 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Cruz gained national prominence during his 2016 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. He is known for his conservative positions on issues such as healthcare, immigration, and tax reform. Cruz has been a vocal advocate for limited government and has often positioned himself as a defender of constitutional rights.

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Oct 4, 2021

U.S. commanders have publicly assessed that an invasion of Taiwan is 'much closer to us than most think.'

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Oct 4, 2021

I am concerned that that longstanding policy--and it is a policy that has existed across Democrat and Republican administrations.

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Oct 4, 2021

Iran's standing as a nonnuclear weapons state party to the NPT cannot be described as good.

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Oct 4, 2021

During the Trump administration, I repeatedly urged the president to untangle the United States from Cold War style treaties that only constrained us, both because Russia cheated on them and China was not even bound by them.

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Oct 4, 2021

I am concerned about the possibility of the Biden administration adopting a, quote, 'no-first-use' nuclear policy.

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Oct 4, 2021

It is important to make sure allies and partners understand that whatever steps we take our commitment to their defense is unshakable.

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Oct 4, 2021

The United States finds that since declaring its testing moratorium Russia has conducted nuclear weapons experiments that have created nuclear yield and are not consistent with the U.S. zero yield standard.

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Oct 4, 2021

When it concerns Facebook, there are a number of concerns that this committee and Congress has been focused on.

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Oct 4, 2021

That kind of duplicity is why we need to have more transparency and why if we want to have a system that is coherent with democracy we must have public oversight from Congress.

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Oct 4, 2021

Facebook's internal reports found that Instagram makes 'body image issues worse for one in three teen girls.'

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Oct 4, 2021

'13 percent of British users and 6 percent of American users traced their desire to kill themselves to Instagram.'

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Oct 3, 2021

The Joe Biden solution is we are going to use Government power to force you to submit, and as a consequence, fire any doctor, fire any nurse who dares make a different decision.

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Oct 3, 2021

Democrats want to give billions of dollars to unelected bureaucrats in the Biden administration.

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Sep 30, 2021

To remake America into a socialist, almost Marxist-type economy.

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Sep 30, 2021

Have you quantified how many children have taken their own lives because of your products?

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Sep 28, 2021

What this is really about is trying to demonize Texas and trying to demagogue on the question of life.

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Sep 28, 2021

If the conservatorship process can deprive someone like Ms. Spears of her fundamental liberties, then what chance does the average American have?

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Sep 28, 2021

It`s abundantly clear Joe Biden and Kamal Harris ignored the advice from the military and misled the American people.

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Sep 21, 2021

California according to the Census Bureau's latest calculation 15.4 percent of California residents lived in poverty from 2018 to 2020.

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Sep 21, 2021

And if you want to understand the Green New Deal it is to bring the failed energy policies of California to force them on the rest of the country.

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Sep 21, 2021

You would impose trillions of dollars of costs on African-Americans, on Hispanics, on low income Americans, and you would drive up poverty across the country.

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Sep 21, 2021

In a country that is blessed with vast natural resources we should be paying a fraction of the price for electricity and gasoline, but because of bad policies at the local, State and Federal level, Californians pay on average twice as much…

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Sep 21, 2021

The advocates of the Green New Deal like to pitch their proposals in high sounding rhetoric, but the reality of their proposals are that they would do four things.

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Sep 21, 2021

In 2100, so 80 years from now global temperature would be lowered by 0.173 degrees Celsius.

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Sep 21, 2021

The principle driver of our steady reduction in CO2 is the substitution of natural gas for coal production in electricity.

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