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Poll: Majority Of US Voters Say Biden Would Not Make A Good President

WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – A list of potential 2016 presidential candidates leaves off the man who is currently next-in-line for the office: Vice President Joe Biden. A new Quinnipiac poll of over 2,500...

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Rep. Cummings: ‘It’s Clear to Me’ Cruz is Running for President

WASHINGTON (CBSDC) — One prominent Democrat believes Tea Party darling Sen. Ted Cruz will run for president in 2016. “It’s clear to me he’s running for president – I don’t have any doubt about it,”...

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Cruz: Americans’‘Priorities Are Not The Priorities Of Washington’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Conservatives teeming with anti-Washington frustration are talking about driving the Republicans’ policy agenda and ousting GOP leaders who don’t hew to their ideology. At meetings in...

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Cruz: ‘I Intend To Object To Any Effort To Raise The Debt Ceiling On A...

WASHINGTON (CBS DC/AP) — Will Ted Cruz stage another filibuster? The Republican senator from Texas says he will object any effort to raise the debt ceiling with a simple majority vote, instead...

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Cruz: Verdict On McConnell ‘Is Ultimately A Decision For The Voters In Kentucky’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz sat with eyes glued to his mobile device as the chaos he provoked ensnared his Republican leaders on the Senate floor. Legislation to raise the nation’s borrowing...

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Cruz: ‘I Am Absolutely Convinced We Are Going To Repeal Every Single Word Of...

WASHINGTON (CBS DC/AP) — Tea Party favorite Sen. Ted Cruz is still holding out hope that President Barack Obama’s health care law will be repealed. The Republican senator from Texas and potential 2016...

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GOP Presidential Hopefuls Vie For Clout With Base

OXON HILL, Md. — Republicans vying for the GOP presidential nomination in 2016 auditioned Thursday before some of the nation’s most ardent conservative leaders, calling for the party to unite behind a...

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Kerry, Cruz And Crist Poke Fun At Gridiron Dinner

WASHINGTON (AP) — Politicians poked fun at adversaries and themselves Saturday night at the annual Gridiron dinner, a gathering of journalists and public figures. Conservative Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas,...

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Tea Party Challengers Struggle To Continue Success

WASHINGTON (AP) – Four years after the tea party rocked the political world by ousting several prominent Republicans in Congress, the ultra-conservative movement finds itself with slimmer prospects as...

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Cruz Making Fourth Trip To Iowa In 8 Months

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Texas Tea Party darling U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is making his fourth trip to Iowa in eight months, logging serious face time before most other potential 2016 White House hopefuls in...

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Cruz: ‘We Have Never Seen An Administration With Such Hostility Toward...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Known nationally as a fiery fiscal conservative, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz channeled his pastor father and displayed his religious side Tuesday, telling an influential group of Iowa...

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Cruz: Iran Taps Hostage Taker For U.N. Ambassador

WASHINGTON (AP) — Iran has chosen a former hostage-taker involved in the 1979 seizure of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran to serve as its ambassador at the United Nations, Sen. Ted Cruz said Tuesday in...

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Cruz To Woo Young Evangelicals At Liberty University

WASHINGTON (AP) — Possible presidential hopeful Ted Cruz is auditioning at one of the nation’s largest meetings of young evangelicals, a critical voting bloc for any Republican with White House...

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Cruz: Holder Should Be Impeached For ‘Defying Congress And The Rule Of Law’...

WASHINGTON (WNEW) – Sen. Ted Cruz said Attorney General Eric Holder should be impeached if he doesn’t indict former Internal Revenue Service official Lois Lerner, who is linked to the agency’s...

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Cruz: Senate Democrats ‘Demanded Kathleen Sebelius’ Head’

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz believes Senate Democrats are the ones who forced Kathleen Sebelius to step down as health and human services secretary. Cruz told NBC News that Democrats are...

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Cruz: Too Early To Be Thinking About 2016

CHARLESTON, S.C. — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz says it’s too early to be thinking about 2016 and that he’s working right now to make sure his party regains control of the Senate this year. Cruz is...

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Cruz: Obama ‘Is The Most Lawless President’ In The Nation’s History

SANDY, Utah (AP) — Tea party favorites and Republican U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee condemned the federal health care law and the Obama administration to a crowd about 1,000 Utah Republican faithful...

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Cruz: ‘I Have Responsibility To Assess Firsthand Current And Future Military...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas will visit Ukraine this month and meet with leaders of the protest movement that forced out the country’s pro-Russian president. Frequently mentioned as...

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US Defends Captive Swap With Taliban, Critics Stir

WASHINGTON — Five years a captive from the Afghanistan war, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl is back in American hands, freed for five Guantanamo terrorism detainees in a swap stirring sharp debate in Washington...

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Cruz: ‘How Many Soldiers May Lose Their Lives In The Future’ When Released...

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, worries American soldiers have been put in harm’s way after five high-level Taliban detainees at Guantanamo Bay were exchanged for Army Sgt. Bowe...

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Cruz To File Legislation To Halt Anymore Releases Of Gitmo Detainees Until...

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz says he is going to file legislation to halt anymore releases of detainees at Guantanamo Bay until an investigation is done on the deal that released Army Sgt....

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Sen. Cruz Formally Gives Up Canadian Citizenship

AUSTIN, Texas — Canada-born U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz has made good on a promise to renounce his birth country’s citizenship — doing so amid speculation he could make a run at the White House in 2016....

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Cruz: Obama, Clinton Won’t ‘Utter The Words Radical Islamic Terrorism’

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, believes President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton do not understand jihadists who want to kill Americans. “The most...

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Reid: ‘Radical Republicans Would Rather Hold These Kids Ransom’

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prospects for action on the nation’s border crisis faded Thursday as lawmakers traded accusations rather than solutions, raising chances that Congress will head out for its summer...

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Cruz Suggests Flight Ban Is Boycott Of Israel

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Ted Cruz on Wednesday questioned whether President Barack Obama used a federal agency to impose an economic boycott on Israel after the Federal Aviation Administration...

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Cruz Vows To Continue Blocking Nominees Until White House Answers Why FAA...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz vowed Thursday to continue blocking confirmation of a series of ambassadorial and other diplomatic nominees despite the Federal Aviation Administration lifting a ban on...

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Scuttled House Vote On Border Bill Embarrassment For New GOP Leadership

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republican leaders struggled to round up votes from recalcitrant conservatives for a bill dealing with the immigrant surge at the U.S.-Mexico border and head home for a...

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McCarthy: ‘We’re In Very Good Shape’ On Revised Border Bill

WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans pushed legislation on Friday that could clear the way for eventual deportation of more than 500,000 immigrants brought here illegally as kids and address the surge...

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Cruz: ‘We Need To Abolish The IRS’

AMES, Iowa — The lineup of potential 2016 GOP presidential candidates courting Iowa conservatives Saturday agreed on two things: America is on the wrong track and they could move it in the right...

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Cruz Sounds Like He’s Running In 2016

DALLAS (AP) — Firebrand Sen. Ted Cruz is sounding increasingly like he’s made up his mind to run for president in 2016. The tea party-backed Texan’s rousing speech Saturday in Dallas energized...

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Cruz: FAA Needs To ‘Take Every Available Precaution In Preventing Additional...

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is calling on the Federal Aviation Administration to take precautions to prevent the spread of Ebola in the United States. Following the first confirmed...

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Cruz To Introduce Constitutional Amendment To Keep Gov’t, Courts From...

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz plans on introducing a constitutional amendment to prevent the federal government or courts from striking down state marriage laws after the Supreme Court...

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Sen. Rand Paul Mocks ‘Hillary’s Losers’ On Facebook

WASHINGTON (CBS DC/AP) – Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., is mocking Democratic Senate candidates who lost in Tuesday’s midterm elections by calling them “Hillary’s losers.” Pictures of former senator Hillary...

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Cruz Says ‘Under No Circumstances’ Will He Challenge McConnell For Majority...

WASHINGTON (CBS DC) – Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, dismissed speculation that he would contest Sen. Mitch McConnell for the Republican Senate majority position, despite very differing views between the two...

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Bachmann: We Aren’t Going To Give Obama ‘One Dime To Execute His Illegal Action’

WASHINGTON (AP) — In a defiant challenge to GOP leaders, immigration hardliners in Congress announced Wednesday they will oppose upcoming legislation to keep the government open. They demanded specific...

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Cruz On CIA Report: ‘Enough Already With Blaming George Bush For Every...

WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz said that the release of the Democratic report about the CIA’s interrogation methods is nothing more than the Obama administration continuing to blame former...

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Hard-Line Conservatives, GOP Establishment Battle How To Use Budget Against...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans running Congress have promised to use every weapon in their arsenal to take down President Barack Obama’s health care law. But now some are questioning whether to use the...

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Cruz: ‘We Need An Attorney General Who Will Stop Being A Partisan Attack Dog’

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s attorney general nominee, Loretta Lynch, faces Senate questioners Wednesday as she seeks to become the first black woman to hold the nation’s top law...

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Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz To Launch Presidential Bid

WASHINGTON (AP) — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz will announce Monday his plans to run for president, becoming the first high-profile Republican formally to enter the 2016 presidential contest. Cruz has hinted...

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Cruz To Buy Insurance Via Obamacare, A Law He Vows To Scrap

WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Ted Cruz said Tuesday he is signing up his family for health care coverage through the Affordable Care Act, a law the Republican presidential candidate has vowed to repeal should...

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