Unfortunately for Cruz, he didn’t get that chance as both Democratic and Republican lawmakers refused him the opportunity. “And as a effect, he can’t get anything done legislatively”, Paul said.
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Paul came to the Senate in 2010, swept into office on the November midterms “red wave”. Rand Paul of Kentucky, on Tuesday endorsed a partial government shutdown as a way to gain leverage over Obama. Mitch McConnell. But Paul suggested he’s tried to avoid making policy fights, including a battle earlier this year on the National Security Agency (NSA), personal. “He is pretty much done for and stifled and it is really ’cause of personal relationships…” “You can’t hit them over the head”.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) offered an explanation as to why outgoing House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) unexpectedly announced last week that he would resign from Congress at the end of next month.
“I think he mistakes what can be done and what can’t be done”.
But Boehner told CBSs Face the Nation that he would have been able to overcome a potential challenge, saying that I was going to get the overwhelming number of I would have gotten 400 votes, probably.
He added that “I believe if Speaker Boehner had done that, had passed a dirty CR funding Planned Parenthood, funding this Iranian nuclear deal, that he would have lost his job”.
Republicans have targeted Planned Parenthood for years, but secretly recorded videos that raised questions about the organization’s handling of fetal tissue provided to scientific researchers have outraged anti-abortion Republicans and put them on the offensive against the group.
Paul said he was “still just as hardcore” in taking on the establishment as Cruz, but has declined to call colleagues names.
“Speaker Boehner faced a conundrum”.
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The PAC said Paul has sacrificed his libertarian views while attempting to salvage his presidential campaign.
