Ted Cruz

The Supreme Court recognized the First Amendment does not allow this Congress to choose who gets to speak.

Let us stop this fool's errand of speech regulation.

Well, many of the victims have not been interviewed. Has the investigation examined the meetings between the head of the IRS and White House political operatives to determine the degree of political influence that was exercised from the…

Now, I have to tell you, the fact that a major Obama donor is playing this leadership role has resulted in the integrity of the Department being questioned.

I would call upon you to carry out the tradition of independence that Attorneys General have honored.

Has any investigation been done about whether individual donors to Governor Romney have been audited and targeted by the IRS at a greater rate than donors to President Obama?

Is it your position that out of the 117,000 employees at the Department of Justice the only lawyer available to head this investigation was a major Obama donor?

In my view, the integrity of the Department of Justice has been severely compromised.

That is a deeply troubling scenario.

My expectation is that all of them would be adversely affected.

An EMP would essentially shut down our communications network, would be one of the more significant outcomes of EMP.

Any nuclear weapon that would go off in the United States would have a horrific effect on people.

If, God forbid, Iran were to acquire nuclear weapons and if, God forbid, they were to make the second decision of being willing to use those weapons, based on the radical religious extremism that motivates so-called Supreme Leader Khamenei…

I am deeply concerned about our ability to protect the Americans who are there, particularly as the situation seems to be deteriorating.

Thank you for being here, thank you for your testimony, and thank you for your service to our country.

Given those numbers, would you agree that establishing control of our border with Mexico has serious implications for national security?

The magnitude of the threat on the border, the southwest border in particular, continues to grow.

Given that over 50,000 unaccompanied children have illegally entered the country this year, do you think it is clear that international terrorist organizations are fully aware of our vulnerabilities along the border?

In your personal judgment, are you concerned about our ability to execute effective counterterrorism with a troop presence at zero?

If that plan is carried out, what will be our capability to engage in counterterrorism operations?

It would be a far better allocation of resources in the NSA and in our efforts to prevent terrorism generally if much more resources were directed to targeting those who we have reason to know are dangerous.

I think it varies by the specifics of the threat that we're talking about.

The Government collecting metadata or even more so the content of communications between law-abiding citizens is an issue that the Constitution I believe speaks very directly to.

The Fourth Amendment protects the privacy of law-abiding Americans.

I assume you would agree that a commitment to jihad would not qualify as a religious view and, indeed, would be a political position and embrace of violence that merits very close scrutiny to prevent that violence from being carried out.