Ted Cruz

Ted Cruz ( born December 22, 1970 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada ) is an American politician of the Republican Party. He is a Senator for Texas in the United States Senate. Cruz earned his college degree at Princeton and then studied law at Harvard, where he was the first editor of the Harvard Law Review. After graduating, he worked among others as a law clerk for the Supreme Judge of the U.S. Supreme Court William Rehnquist and as Solicitor General of Texas. His mandate began on 3 January 2013.

Ted Cruz is the first Hispanic, representing the U.S. state of Texas in the United States Senate. His father was a Cuban political prisoner and fled in 1957 to the United States. Today he works as a pastor in Dallas.

Cruz is close to the Tea Party movement and was supported in this for the Senate election. After the previous Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison announced in January 2011, to refrain from re-election, Cruz declared his candidacy. He sat down in the internal party preselection against the Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst by and struck in the Senate election on 6 November 2012, Democratic challenger Paul Sadler with 56.6 percent.

Political positions

Cruz spoke out against the nomination of John Kerry as Secretary of State.

Cruz is a staunch defender of the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution fundamental right to bear arms.

In the immigration policies Cruz tries to take a middle position. So he rejected the bipartisan compromise worked out proposal for immigration reform legislation. On one hand, he opposes the, among others in the compromise proposal provided, the award of citizenship to illegal immigrants, and calls for greater surveillance of the U.S. border with Mexico. On the other hand, he rejects even the expulsion of illegal immigrants from and seeks to create opportunities for legal residency without citizenship for these immigrant clientele, and also calls for liberalization of legal immigration, including an increase in the annual award green cards.

Cruz rejects abortions unless the mother's life is not endangered by the pregnancy .. Cruz advocates a federal law definition of marriage concept and rejects same-sex marriage from .. Cruz is of the opinion that the U.S. should support anyone in the civil war in Syria.

He is an opponent of raising the debt limit. He remained true to his rejection, after the U.S. Senate agreed on a budget compromise as a result of the U.S. budget dispute in October 2013.

On September 25, 2013, held a 21- hour period speech in the U.S. Senate ( filibuster ) with the aim to delay the vote on the rejected him health reform by President Obama

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