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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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May 20, 2015

By contrast, since Obama announced his intention to defeat ISIS, the United States has conducted a paltry 6,846 air strikes in Iraq and Syria.

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May 20, 2015

ISIS is doing tremendous damage to the civilian populations, with the assistance of a slow and lumbering Administration.

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May 20, 2015

If a Russian missile intentionally shot down a United States aircraft, I would recommend a swift and forceful response.

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May 20, 2015

Unfortunately, Putin doesn't care about us being in touch with our allies; he understands that we won't respond, and because we show weakness he does what he wants.

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May 20, 2015

How confident are you that the problems with CENTCOM's intelligence products now under investigation are confined to the mission against ISIS?

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May 20, 2015

Have you ever directed and guided your senior intelligence officers what on what acceptable reports will or will not include?

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May 20, 2015

The American people need confidence that DOD's intelligence products are apolitical assessments.

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May 20, 2015

The fight against ISIS is one of the most serious challenges to our national security.

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May 20, 2015

Sunni tribes in Iraq can be fickle; after years of disenfranchisement under former Prime Minister Maliki, they seem very unlikely to side with the increasingly sectarian and Shiite Iraqi Security Forces against ISIS.

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May 20, 2015

I remain concerned by the refugee crisis facing our partners in the Middle East, including Turkey...

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May 20, 2015

If those refugees (of which the overwhelming majority are Iraqi IDPs) are not properly cared for, they will become a ripe terrorist recruiting pool for generations.

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May 20, 2015

What is the process of approving which weapons get to the KRG?

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May 20, 2015

They withdrew from the site, and that says to me, and I think to most of us, that we have an issue with the will of the Iraqis to fight ISIS and defend themselves.

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May 20, 2015

In May, you stated that Iraqi Security Forces 'just showed no will to fight' in explaining the Islamic State's victory at Ramadi.

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May 20, 2015

In my judgment, the policy of not arming the Kurds makes very little sense.

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Apr 27, 2015

Chairman Grassley and I have joined together in introducing legislation, the Expatriot Terrorist Act...

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Mar 23, 2015

It is one of the good things about Obamacare is that the statute provided that members of Congress would be on the exchanges without subsidies, just like millions of Americans.

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Mar 23, 2015

We'll be getting new health insurance, and we'll presumably do it through my job in the Senate. So we'll be on the federal exchange, like millions of others, on the federal exchange.

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Mar 22, 2015

Today, roughly half the born-again Christians aren't voting. They're staying home. Imagine instead millions of people of faith all across America coming out to the polls and voting our values.

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Mar 22, 2015

Imagine in 2017, a new president, signing legislation repealing every word of Obamacare.

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Mar 22, 2015

Abolish the IRS! Take all 125,000 IRS agents and put them on our southern border!

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Mar 22, 2015

Obamacare is a train wreck. We're seeing our constitutional rights under assault.

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Mar 22, 2015

This is our fight. The answer will not come from Washington. It will come only from the men and women across this country, from men and women from people of faith, from lovers of liberty, from people who respect the constitution. It will…

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Mar 22, 2015

I believe god isn't done with America yet. I believe in you. I believe in the power of millions of courageous conservatives rising up to reignite the promise of America. And that is why today, I am announcing that I'm running for president…

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