Ted Cruz

I think that one of the great things that has been included in all of our legislation about airports is that money on an airport needs to stay on an airport.

I think that what will happen is we will have fewer customers. If we increase the cost to those customers in the small cities, their options would be fewer.

In many cases, politics has hindered progress.

Nationwide, with the airports that are allowed to divert revenues, close to $1 billion a year is diverted.

Alex is a man of character, a man who takes very seriously fidelity to the law, fidelity to the Constitution, and a man who has a passion for justice.

If the priority is to secure our borders and increase military spending, then we should not be slashing their budget.

What do you see as the most viable path for going forward and developing a fully operable backup system using eLORAN or otherwise?

It's one thing to propose securing our borders and increasing military spending by $54 billion, but it's another thing entirely to even consider slashing up to $1.3 billion--roughly 14 percent--to the very military service that secures our…

I appreciate your commitment to work with us on that, and I look forward to our working together to address this.

The reality is when DHS talks about sustaining 'current funding levels,' we have no idea whether they mean the funding levels Congress has enacted...

The time to move forward is really now on this. We would certainly welcome an interagency approach, but, more importantly, a solution to this problem set.

One of the threats that we heard testimony about at the November hearing on artificial intelligence was a cybersecurity threat...

Thank you for holding this important hearing.

What are the operational and readiness impacts for future units that rotate through South Korea if the pre-positioned equipment returns stateside?

The budget issue has been further complicated by 15 years of focus on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism as the Army addressed current needs in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The act does not just apply to protect popular religious beliefs. It does perhaps its more important work in protecting unpopular religious beliefs, vindicating this Nation's long-held aspiration to serve as a refuge of religious tolerance.

That is precisely what we should expect of judges.

I think that is important to note in the public debate that part of the reason we have such a robust arena of free speech...

In heaven, there is no law, and the lion lies down with the lamb. In hell, there is nothing but law, and due process is meticulously obeyed.

There are over 60,000 Members, law students and lawyers and, indeed, those just interested in the Constitution and the rule of law.

I am and have been a member of the Federalist Society since I was 21 years old.

I think it does--it serves well to rebut the caricature that some on the left try to paint of originalism.

Well, Judge, I thank you for that very scholarly and erudite answer.

We would have seen our democratic process controlled by five unelected lawyers here in Washington, DC.

If they filled his seat, we would have seen a Supreme Court where the will of the people would have been repeatedly cast aside.