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Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr At today's Senate Commerce Committee, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) questioned witnesses about a new bill that would affect drug prices in the US. During a Senate Commerce Committee meeting, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) questioned witnesses about a new bill that would affect drug prices in the US. Cruz opened by welcoming the witnesses and noting the presence of four doctors. He went on to discuss the potential trade-offs associated with the bill, particularly when it comes to government regulation, which he warned can create compliance costs and barriers to entry for competitors.  The bill in question would impose contractual disclosure requirements, requiring Pharmacy Benefit Managers (PBMs) to share data on how much they pay providers and manufacturers for each drug, and it would also prohibit practices like clawbacks and spread pricing. Cruz asked Dr. Mulligan whether the bill's requirements could lead to more or less consolidation...

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr At a Senate Commerce Committee hearing on Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) questioned FCC nominee Gigi Sohn. Cruz questioned Sohn about her failure to disclose a secret deal to the Senate Commerce Committee and to the White House, her political contributions to Senators while her nomination was pending, and her support of a left-wing activist group called "Fight for the Future."  Cruz argued that her actions demonstrated poor judgment and questioned her honesty and integrity. Sohn defended her actions and maintained that she acted honestly and in accordance with the agreement of the settlement. She also explained her support of "Fight for the Future" and argued that her political contributions were small and not significant. Here is the complete conversation between Ted Cruz and Gigi Sohn at the Senate Commerce Committee hearing: Ted Cruz : Thank you, Madam Chair. Ms. Sohn, this is your third hearing, that is hig...

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr At a Tuesday Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Senator Ted Cruz grilled State Department official George Ken about alleged corruption by President Biden and his son Hunter. Questioning Ken over his past concerns about Hunter Biden, serving on the board of Ukrainian energy firm Burisma. Cruz pressed on whether or not there were ethical violations by the Bidens. Cruz has long been a fierce critic of the president's son. Charging his actions while his father was vice president included corruption and influence peddling. Democrats and the president himself have defended Hunter Biden, claiming GOP accusations are politically motivated. The Republicans have promised to make Hunter Biden's business dealings and whether his father profited from them central to their investigations in the next Congress. Senator Cruz said: Mr. Kent, you have been outspoken throughout your career speaking against corruption, and I ...

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr 'Do You Agree... That Babies Are Racist?': Ted Cruz Questions Jackson About 'Antiracist Baby' Book At today's Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) asked whether she agrees with the book, "Antiracist Baby" by Dr. Ibrim X. Kendi, which is in the library at a school on whose board she sits.  You can watch the complete interaction between Ketanji Brown Jackson & Sen. Cruz at the end of this blog, but before this, we will show you a few shots of the conversation between them here. Sen. Cruz: So Judge Jackson, all of us will agree that no one should be discriminated against because of race. When you just testified a minute ago that you didn't know if critical race theory was taught in 12, I will confess I find that statement a little hard to reconcile with the public record because if you look at the Georgetown day school's curriculu...

Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr At today's Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) asked questions relating to the 1619 Project. Sen. Ted Cruz :  Particularly close but we were always friendly and cordial.  Judge Jackson : We were.  Sen. Cruz: You and I had a productive meeting in my office. Discussed a number of things where you were there with former senator Dug Jones and we discussed how he and I and a number of senators had for two different years participated in reading aloud on the senate floor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s fox news alert a bridge jail, which someone of the truly great you and I talked together about our shared admiration for dr. King. When senator Grassley questioned you earlier, he asked in particular about Dr. Martin Luther King's speech on the steps of the lincoln memorial where he said most critically. I have a dream that my four little children will one day...

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr At today's Senate Republican press briefing, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed President Joe Biden and blamed his foreign policy decisions for Russia's invasion of Ukraine. His remarks came after Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy virtually addressed the US Congress.  Sen. Cruz. in his news conference said: President Zelensky's address to US Congress was powerful and it was compelling. The world is inspired by his leadership and inspired by the incredible courage of the Ukrainian people defending their homeland.  As we have seen these horrific images, of the carnage of human life, of the murders Russian President Vladimir Putin is carrying out in Ukraine. What is so frustrating is that this was entirely preventable. This didn't have to happen. The most significant war in Europe since 1945 since the end of World War 2.  Cruz then explained the 2 specific mistakes that caused this war. He said: There were tw...

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr At Senate GOP press briefing held yesterday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) hammered President Biden's potential new Iran deal. Cruz started his news conference and said: Guys, Thank you all for coming. The Biden foreign policy is a disaster across the globe Afghanistan is a disaster. Russia is a disaster. Ukraine is a disaster. China is a disaster. But there may be no part of the globe more dangerous in the Biden foreign policy than Iran.  From the first days of the Biden-Harris administration, the Biden foreign policy team set its top foreign policy goal. To negotiate a brand-new nuclear agreement with Iran, the Obama Nuclear Agreement was catastrophically dangerous. And President Biden wants nothing more than to re-enter a deal that is even worse than the Obama deal.  In Vienna, Joe Biden's diplomats have been furiously bending over backward to surrender to the Ayatollah. The Ayatollah who is a theocratic despot reg...

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr At a news briefing on Wednesday, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) spoke about a potential new Iran deal. Cruz said 'The White House's Talking Points Are Written By An 18-Year-Old Intern'. Addressing the media with GOP leaders, Cruz said: President Biden and the white house's talking points on energy are both inane and contradictory. The Biden white house maintains that decreasing supply does not impact price if you look at How Joe Biden started his presidency? He started it with a war on u.s oil and gas. You know President Biden tried to say this week the increase in gas prices is due to Putin.  I understand the Russians are the favorite talking point for democrats. We spent four years under Donald Trump hearing, democrats say Russia Russia Russia. And now the Biden White House wants to say all of the disasters of inflation that's Russia's fault too. The one problem is the facts on day one asPpresident Joe Biden can...

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr At Wednesday's (March 2nd, 2022) Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) criticized US-India relations under President Joe Biden.  Ted Cruz: 'Relations With India Have Worsened Significantly' Under Joe Biden. Sen. Cruz blamed the Biden administration for India's abstention. "Past year under the Biden-Harris administration, relations with India have worsened significantly, as was manifested, among other things in their latest abstention in the United Nations on the issue of Russia and Ukraine." He said that it was due to the Joe Biden administration changing the priority of the Quad that is made up of India, the United States, Japan, and Australia from countering China to issues like climate change and development. Ted Cruz in his House speech said: I traveled to India in 2019 and I had the privilege of welcoming Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi to Texas to my hometown of Hous...

  Photo credit: Gage Skidmore/CC BY-SA 2.0,  via Flickr In Senate floor remarks on Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) slammed President Biden. Cruz said Joe Biden Becoming President 'Best Thing That Ever Happened' To Putin.  I will say Joe Biden's becoming US president was the best thing that ever happened to Vladimir Putin. Biden began his presidency by surrendering by Putin surrendering to Putin waving the sanctions on Nordstrom 2 sanctions bipartisan sanctions that I authored that had stopped that pipeline that had stopped an invasion of Ukraine and Biden decided to surrender to our adversary was a better policy as Neville chamberlain has demonstrated appeasement doesn't work the state of America is strong.  But the state of the union in the state of the federal government in Washington is disastrous, but the one bit a bright light on the horizon that I'm confident president Biden will not point to is that the American people will vote in November and I believe they w...