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Senator Ted Cruz Threatens To Subpoena Treasury Officials To Testify About Obamacare

Roll Call states that Senator Ted Cruz is warning he might seek to compel testimony from the Treasury Department about the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).

The Texas Republican senator – who is also a presidential candidate – is in control of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts.

He said his staff had been informed by the Obama administration that witnesses would not be available to testify about the rule-making process for providing subsidies under Obamacare because of ongoing litigation.

“For two main reasons, this excuse is entirely invalid,” Cruz wrote in a new letter to Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew.

“First, Congress retains its right to conduct oversight of the executive branch at all times, regardless of any perceptions of poor timing by, or inconvenience to, the executive branch. The Senate Judiciary Committee has obligations to ensure the proper functioning of the federal government at all times, and not just during windows of convenience for political officials. Second, your Department’s pending litigation justification is without basis, particularly given how you have provided at least one Department witness for the exact same topic during the pendency of other litigation over the last few years.”

http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/cruz-threatens-to-subpoena-treasury-officials-to-testify-about-obamacare-rules/

Ted Cruz And Evangelicals Discuss ‘Gay Jihad’

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In a speech to a home-school group recently in Iowa, right-wing presidential candidate Ted Cruz said that gays are like Jihadis.

Is There More To Mary Jo Kopechne’s Life Than Chappaquiddick?

A new book is coming out about the life of Mary Jo Kopechne.

She was a pretty young woman who drowned in a Chappaquiddick Island waterway in 1969 after the United States Senator Ted Kennedy (brother of JFK) reportedly drove his car off a bridge and left the scene.

It is generally considered to be the event that derailed his presidential aspirations.

But that’s about all most people know about Forty Fort, PA native Mary Jo Kopechne, according to her surviving family members.

They believe she deserves a better legacy, and the family is about to release a book about her life.

Kopechne’s family hopes the book, “Our Mary Jo,” and a scholarship fund started in her name at Misericordia University in Dallas will finally give her a proper identity.

“Mary Jo always got lost in the shuffle of Chappaquiddick,” said co-author William Nelson, whose mother was Kopechne’s first cousin. “In many ways, her book and her scholarship kind of take Mary Jo back from Chappaquiddick. They finally bring her back to the Wyoming Valley.”

Kopechne was a teacher who graduated from Caldwell College in New Jersey with a degree in business and education, states timesleader.com.  She got involved with politics, and rose to a key position with Ted’s other brother Bobby Kennedy.

The book doesn’t dwell on Chappaquiddick and how Kopechne died, states standardspeaker.com.

In fact, it’s barely mentioned. The 180-page book focuses on her life, the potential of the rising political operative, and the impact of her death at age 28, her family says.

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Cruz Renounces Canadian Citizenship


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Texas Republican Senator Ted Cruz has announced his bid for President of the United States in the 2016 Presidential race.

This makes him the first to announce his intention to run, hoping to become the Republican candidate.

Conservative groups treat him as a hero.  Recently, Cruz – who was born in Canada to a Cuban father – gave up his Canadian citizenship, according to TYT.

Liberty Students Required To Attend Cruz Speech: Huffington Post

Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) delivered his first official 2016 presidential campaign speech Monday during a “convocation” ceremony at Liberty University, a religious institution in Lynchburg, Virginia.  During that speech, he announced he would be running for president.

A convocation (from the Latin convocare meaning “to call/come together”, a translation of the Greek ἐκκλησίαekklēsia) is a group of people formally assembled for a special purpose, mostly ecclesiastical or academic, states Wikipedia.

A synodical assembly of a church is at times called “Convocation.”

“Some of the students who witnessed the launch of Cruz’s 2016 presidential campaign were…only in attendance so they wouldn’t get fined,” at the fundamentalist Christian school, states the Huffington Post.

Convocation at Liberty University is a mandatory Monday, Wednesday and Friday event — and they are penalized with fines if they skip an assembly.

“They make you come. If you don’t come, you get punished,” said Ana Delgado, a sophomore at Liberty, who said students face a $10 fine for not showing up at convocation, according to National Journal.

Born in Canada to a Cuban father, Cruz does not seem to fear lawsuits over his right to be president.

In the past, “birther” lawsuits challenged Barack Obama’s right to be President, claiming that he was not a natural-born citizen.  He was born in Hawaii to an American mother and Kenyan father.

Sheriff Richard Mack, who now heads the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association said in a Blog Talk Radio interview that he believes Cruz is ineligible for the presidency. Mack is known as a prominent “birther.”

Oddly, Cruz has stated that we should abolish the Internal Revenue Service and put “every one of those 110,000 [IRS] agents…on our southern border.” (82,000 people work for the IRS, according to FactCheck.org.)

This is from a man whose father immigrated from Cuba and who himself was born in Canada.

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Liberty Off Campus Living Guide here

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Odd: Ted Cruz Claims GOP Isn’t The Party Of The Rich

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) played ball with “the media” on his appearance on Morning Joe Tuesday morning.

During the show, Cruz says why he believes his economic plan is good for the poor.  His plan would cut taxes on the wealthy, which decreases tax revenue and increases deficit spending.  He also recommends cutting regulations, which encourages financial companies to make more risky investments.

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Senator Ted Cruz On Late Night With Seth Meyers


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Senator Ted Cruz went on Late Night With Seth Meyers on Monday, where Meyers and Cruz discussed Cruz’s possible presidential run.  They also discussed a scare he gave to a little girl during a speech when he said “the world’s on fire.” They also discussed climate change/global warming, where Meyers and Cruz disagreed.

Born in Canada to a Cuban father, Cruz does not seem to fear lawsuits over his right to be president.

In the past, “birther” lawsuits challenged Barack Obama’s right to be President, claiming that he was not a natural-born citizen.  He was born in Hawaii to an American mother and Kenyan father.

Sheriff Richard Mack, who now heads the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association said in a Blog Talk Radio interview that he believes Cruz is ineligible for the presidency. Mack is known as a prominent “birther.”

Cruz Calls For Repeal Of Federal Law That Isn’t A Federal Law


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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) is known for waging political battles even if the odds of success are slim.

“He famously launched a 21-hour filibuster in a failed, last-ditch effort to repeal Obamacare,” according to ThinkProgress.

His latest crusade may be his biggest challenge yet: repealing a federal law that does not exist.

Cruz reportedly recently tweeted, “Federal govt has no business sticking its nose in education. We need to repeal every word of Common Core!” states ThinkProgress.

However, the Common Core State Standards Initiative, known as Common Core, was developed by the states — with input from teachers, education experts and business leaders — and has been voluntarily adopted by 43 states and the District Of Columbia.

Notably, “the federal government played no role in creating the standards, nor did it require that states adopt them.”