Ted Cruz

The Department of Justice has taken the position that Section 5 and indeed Section 2, as well, protects the ability to elect Democrats

I think granting yet another amnesty would result in those numbers going even higher, would result in even more little girls and little boys being subjected to violence and horrific, dangerous conditions.

There is no job more important in the administration than protecting our homeland, so I appreciate your service in this very important role.

Is it really your testimony that granting amnesty to some 800,000 people who came illegally as children had no effect in causing a dramatic increase in children being handed over to international cartels to be smuggled in here illegally?

We have to avoid practices and policies that operate as magnets for further illegal migration.

Mr. Secretary, my time is expiring, but with all respect, in my view that argument is a red herring.

I myself am the son of an immigrant from Cuba, and I am a passionate advocate for legal immigration.

This is a humanitarian crisis that we have a legal system in place that is failing to secure the border and that is incentivizing people crossing illegally.

We have a particular humanitarian crisis with respect to unaccompanied minors. That is a crisis that is the direct consequence of policies of the Obama administration.

The bill I have introduced would eliminate the individual contribution limits and provide immediate disclosure within 24 hours of any contribution made to a Federal candidate.

Nobody has disagreed with the litany of harms that could occur if Congress passed this bill.

The expenditure of money has been integral to speech.

In our history, Democrats have been willing to do that, and we are in a strange point in time when Democrats abandon the First Amendment.

What this bill says is very simple: Any restrictions on the rights, the free speech rights of citizens shall apply with equal force to media corporations like the New York Times, CBS, ABC, and NBC.

I would note there is unfortunately no rule in the Senate that allows a private citizen whose name is being dragged through the mud by the Majority Leader of the Senate for partisan political purposes to rise on that same point of personal…

What this bill will do is, number one, eliminate campaign limits on individual contributions to Federal candidates.

You would get an F in law school if you embraced that position.

America is an exceptional country. When our country was founded, we crafted a Constitution that Thomas Jefferson explained would 'serve as chains to bind the mischief of Government.'

I do wish there were Democratic Senators willing to defend the First Amendment.

This amendment does not just do it for corporations; it does not just do it for billionaires.

When did elected Democrats abandon the Bill of Rights?

This amendment is about power and it is about politicians silencing the citizens.

This amendment here today, if adopted, would repeal the free speech protections of the First Amendment.

Four days after Attorney General Holder sat in that seat and told this Committee it was a vigorous investigation, the President of the United States went on national television and told the American people, categorically, there was 'not a…

The American people have a right to be angry.