Cruz holds degrees in public policy and law from Rafael Edward Cruz was born on December 22, 1970,At the time of his birth, Ted Cruz's parents had lived in Calgary for three years and were working in the oil business as owners of a Cruz attended two private high schools: During high school, Cruz participated in a Houston-based group known at the time as the Free Market Education Foundation, a program that taught high school students the philosophies of economists such as Cruz's 115-page senior thesis at Princeton investigated the separation of powers; its title, After graduating from Princeton, Cruz attended Cruz serves on the Board of Advisors of the After Cruz finished his clerkships, he took a position with Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal, now known as After Bush took office, Cruz served as an Cruz authored 70 U.S. Supreme Court briefs and presented 43 oral arguments.In 2003, while Cruz was Texas Solicitor General, the Texas Attorney General's office declined to defend Texas's In 2004, Cruz was involved in the high-profile case surrounding a challenge to the constitutionality of public schools' requiring students to recite the Cruz served as lead counsel for the state and successfully defended the multiple litigation challenges to the 2003 Texas congressional redistricting plan in state and federal district courts and before the U.S. Supreme Court, which was decided 5–4 in his favor in Michael Wayne Haley was arrested for stealing a calculator from Walmart in 1997.After leaving the Solicitor General position in 2008, Cruz worked in a private law firm in Houston, At Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Cruz represented Cruz defended two record-setting $54-million personal injury awards in New Mexico at the appellate level, including one that had been thrown out by a lower court.Cruz's victory in the Republican primary was described by the Cruz won the runoff for the Republican nomination by a 14-point margin over Dewhurst, support for Dewhurst having plummeted while Cruz's vote total dramatically increased from the first round.In the November 6 general election, Cruz faced As of November 2018, Cruz has sponsored 105 bills of his own, including:Cruz had a leading role in the Cruz has consistently denied any involvement in the 2013 government shutdown, even though he cast several votes to prolong it and was blamed by many within his own party for prompting it.On April 1, 2014, Cruz introduced S. 2195, a bill that would allow the Under the headline "A bipartisan message to Iran", Cruz thanked President In his first two years in the Senate, Cruz attended 17 of 50 public Armed Services Committee hearings, 3 of 25 Commerce Committee hearings, 4 of the 12 Judiciary Committee hearings, and missed 21 of 135 roll call votes during the first three months of 2015.In a November 2014 Senate speech, Cruz accused the president of being "openly desirous to destroy the Constitution and this Republic".Cruz has repeatedly said that the 2015 international nuclear agreement with Iran "will make the Obama administration the world's leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism".In late January 2017, after Trump announced In April 2018, in the blurb for Trump's entry on the In January 2020, after Iran attacked two U.S. military bases in Iraq, Cruz made comments about the change in Iran policy under President Trump, saying that Obama's policy was appeasement and that the missiles used to attack the bases were bought with money the Obama administration had given Iran.Cruz has used harsh rhetoric against fellow Republican politicians, and his relationships with various Republican members of Congress have been strained.In a heated Senate floor speech in July 2015, Cruz accused Senate Republican Leader Among Cruz's few close allies in the Senate is When Boehner announced in September 2015 that he would step down and resign from the House, Cruz expressed his concern that before resigning Boehner might have "cut a deal with Nancy Pelosi to fund the Obama administration for the rest of its tenure".Cruz is one of the Senate Republicans in favor of the "nuclear option", "to speed up consideration of President Trump's nominees".
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