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Ted Cruz

U.S. Senator (Class 1), TX

Republican Texas since Jan 3, 2025

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Issue areas

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

Offices & terms

OfficePartyFromToSource
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

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)

VotePositionDateResultSource
SJRES 138 — A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval of the proposed foreign military sale to the Government of Israel of certain… Nay Apr 15, 2026 Motion to Discharge Rejected U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 32 — A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval of the proposed foreign military sale to the Government of Israel of certain… Nay Apr 15, 2026 Motion to Discharge Rejected U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 123 — A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against the Islamic Republic of Iran that… Nay Apr 15, 2026 Motion to Discharge Rejected U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Christopher R. Wolfe, of Texas, to be U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Texas Yea Apr 14, 2026 Nomination Confirmed U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Christopher R. Wolfe to be U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Texas Yea Apr 14, 2026 Cloture Motion Agreed to U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: John Thomas Shepherd, of Arkansas, to be U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas Yea Apr 14, 2026 Nomination Confirmed U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: John Thomas Shepherd to be U.S. District Judge for the Western District of Arkansas Yea Apr 13, 2026 Cloture Motion Agreed to U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 7147 — Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026. Yea Mar 26, 2026 Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture on Husted Amdt. No. 4732 Yea Mar 26, 2026 Cloture Motion Rejected U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 103 — A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the… Nay Mar 25, 2026 Motion to Proceed Rejected U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 7147 — Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026. Yea Mar 25, 2026 Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 107 — A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the… Nay Mar 25, 2026 Motion to Proceed Rejected U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 116 — A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against the Islamic Republic of Iran that… Nay Mar 24, 2026 Motion to Discharge Rejected U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 1383 — Veterans Accessibility Advisory Committee Act of 2025 Yea Mar 24, 2026 Motion to Table Agreed to U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 1383 — Veterans Accessibility Advisory Committee Act of 2025 Yea Mar 24, 2026 Motion to Table Agreed to U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to proceed to Legislative session Yea Mar 24, 2026 Motion to Proceed Agreed to U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Colin McDonald, of California, to be an Assistant Attorney General Yea Mar 24, 2026 Nomination Confirmed U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Colin McDonald to be an Assistant Attorney General Yea Mar 23, 2026 Cloture Motion Agreed to U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Markwayne Mullin, of Oklahoma, to be Secretary of Homeland Security Yea Mar 23, 2026 Nomination Confirmed U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Markwayne Mullin to be Secretary of Homeland Security Yea Mar 22, 2026 Cloture Motion Agreed to U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 1383 — Veterans Accessibility Advisory Committee Act of 2025 Nay Mar 21, 2026 Cloture Motion Rejected U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Tuberville Amdt. No. 4421 to the Motion to Concur in the House Amendment to S. 1383 with Amendment Yea Mar 21, 2026 Cloture Motion Rejected U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
HR 7147 — Homeland Security and Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act, 2026. Yea Mar 20, 2026 Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SJRES 118 — A joint resolution to direct the removal of United States Armed Forces from hostilities within or against the Islamic Republic of Iran that… Nay Mar 18, 2026 Motion to Discharge Rejected U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 1383 — Veterans Accessibility Advisory Committee Act of 2025 Yea Mar 17, 2026 Motion to Proceed Agreed to 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 typeContributionsTotalShare
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

AmountDonorTo committeeTypeDateSource
$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.

Sponsored legislation (9 as lead sponsor)

Social media

Recent posts

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