Ted Cruz — GovTally

Issue areas

Derived from issue-tagged bills they sponsored and stated positions — each links to the underlying record. AI-derived tags

Defense & Military 3 Civil Rights & Liberties 2 Education 2 Foreign Policy & Trade 2 Economy & Taxes 1 Labor & Employment 1 Technology & Privacy 1

Offices & terms

Office	Party	From	To	Source
U.S. Senator (Class 1), TX current Texas	Republican	Jan 3, 2025	Jan 3, 2031	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 1), TX Texas	Republican	Jan 3, 2019	Jan 3, 2025	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US Senate District Texas United States	Republican	Jan 3, 2019	Jan 3, 2025	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 1), TX Texas	Republican	Jan 3, 2013	Jan 3, 2019	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US Senate District Texas United States	Republican	Jan 3, 2013	Jan 3, 2019	openstates/people CC0-1.0

Committee assignments

Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation — Chairman unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation — Aviation, Space, and Innovation — Ex Officio unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation — Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries — Ex Officio unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation — Consumer Protection, Technology, and Data Privacy — Ex Officio unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation — Science, Manufacturing, and Competitiveness — Ex Officio unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation — Surface Transportation, Freight, Pipelines, and Safety — Ex Officio unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation — Telecommunications and Media — Ex Officio unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — Africa and Global Health Policy — Chairman unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Rules and Administration unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Border Security and Immigration unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Crime and Counterterrorism unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights — Chairman unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Judiciary — the Constitution unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

Ideology — academic context, not a GovTally claim

DW-NOMINATE coordinates (Congress 119): economic dim. 0.783, social dim. -0.185. Voteview DW-NOMINATE Voteview-academic

Roll-call votes (840 recorded)

Vote	Position	Date	Result	Source
SJRES 33 — A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval of the proposed foreign military sale to the Government of Israel of certain…	Nay	Apr 3, 2025	Motion to Discharge Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Mehmet Oz to be Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services	Yea	Apr 3, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Dean Sauer, of Missouri, to be Solicitor General of the United States	Yea	Apr 3, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HJRES 24 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy…	Yea	Apr 3, 2025	Joint Resolution Passed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HJRES 24 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Energy…	Yea	Apr 2, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 37 — A joint resolution terminating the national emergency declared to impose duties on articles imported from Canada.	Nay	Apr 2, 2025	Joint Resolution Passed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Harmeet Dhillon to be an Assistant Attorney General	Yea	Apr 2, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Dean Sauer to be Solicitor General of the United States	Yea	Apr 2, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Matthew Whitaker, of Iowa, to be United States Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty…	Yea	Apr 1, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Matthew Whitaker, to be U.S. Permanent Representative on the Council of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization	Yea	Mar 31, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Paul Lawrence, of Virginia, to be Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Paul Lawrence to be Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 18 — A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to "Overdraft Lending: Very…	Yea	Mar 27, 2025	Joint Resolution Passed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 18 — A joint resolution disapproving the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection relating to "Overdraft Lending: Very…	Yea	Mar 26, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HJRES 25 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Internal Revenue…	Yea	Mar 26, 2025	Joint Resolution Passed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HJRES 25 — Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Internal Revenue…	Yea	Mar 26, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Michael Faulkender, of Maryland, to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury	Yea	Mar 26, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Michael Faulkender to be Deputy Secretary of the Treasury	Yea	Mar 26, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Aaron Reitz, of Texas, to be an Assistant Attorney General	Yea	Mar 26, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Aaron Reitz to be an Assistant Attorney General	Yea	Mar 26, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: James Bishop, of North Carolina, to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Yea	Mar 26, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: James Bishop to be Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget	Yea	Mar 25, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Martin Makary, of Virginia, to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs	Yea	Mar 25, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Martin Makary to be Commissioner of Food and Drugs	Yea	Mar 25, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Jayanta Bhattacharya, of California, to be Director of the National Institutes of Health	Yea	Mar 25, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD

Campaign funding

1,500 recorded contributions totalling $68,836,988. Amounts and dates come straight from FEC filings; funding-type labels are software-classified from those filings classified — 1459 of 1500 classified so far.

Funding type	Contributions	Total	Share
Corporate PAC	395	$44,831,487	65%
Super PAC	540	$16,154,404	23%
Party	39	$5,021,190	7%
Big donor	485	$2,666,793	4%
Unclassified	41	$163,113	0%

Largest contributions

Amount	Donor	To committee	Type	Date	Source
$3,875,299	WINRED	TED CRUZ FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	Oct 16, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$2,971,803	WINRED	TED CRUZ FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	Oct 31, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$2,765,309	WINRED	TED CRUZ FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	Oct 24, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$1,824,139	WINRED	TED CRUZ FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	Nov 5, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$1,490,354	—	TRUTH AND COURAGE PAC	Super PAC	Oct 18, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$1,490,354	—	TRUTH AND COURAGE PAC	Super PAC	Oct 18, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$1,445,792	WINRED	TED CRUZ FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	Nov 5, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$1,347,692	WINRED	TED CRUZ FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	Sep 24, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$1,226,193	WINRED	TED CRUZ FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	Oct 25, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$1,192,842	WINRED	TED CRUZ FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	Oct 16, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$1,167,294	WINRED	TED CRUZ FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	Nov 1, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$1,039,808	WINRED	TED CRUZ FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	Oct 8, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$1,038,714	WINRED	TED CRUZ FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	Sep 26, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$1,000,000	—	WINSENATE	Super PAC	Oct 31, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$1,000,000	—	WINSENATE	Super PAC	Nov 1, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules

Largest by amount; not the full set. FEC contributor data may not be used for commercial solicitation.