Cruz, Cornyn Weigh In on Senate's Fiscal Cliff Vote
Update, 10:35 p.m.:
The fiscal cliff bill has passed the U.S. House with the support of four Texas Republicans: U.S. Reps. Pete Sessions of Dallas, Kevin Brady of Conroe, Mac Thornberry of Wichita Falls and Lamar Smith of San Antonio. Rep. Ron Paul of Lake Jackson was the lone member of the Texas delegation who did not vote; all Texas Democrats in Congress voted for the measure.
In a statement, Sessions said he was "pleased to join my colleagues from both sides of the aisle to make critical parts of our tax code permanent for all ...
Comments (43)
Richard Morgan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
They should have both voted against this bill.
Richard Morgan via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Not to mention the $300 billion in spending increases.
Michelle Michon via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Ted Cruz is a Crazy Train Tea Party Fanatic. I doubt I'll agree with much of anything he has to say.
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Cruz is just puffing himself up, thinking he'll do something brilliant in the Senate, when in fact, he's very low on the totem poll and will probably accomplish less than Cornyn & Hutchison, and that's practically nothing.
Jolyn Brand via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Cruz needs to shut up and sit down. And then stay there
Matt Russell via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Ted Cruz already leading the way with sanity!
Ed Caffrey via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Texas got what they like best - an empty shirt, just like the one in the governors mansion.
Irene Solnik via Texas Tribune on Facebook
not for him, but we stuck with a turd ball
Nit Witty via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Extinction cannot come soon enough for these dinosaurs.
Mary Lee via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The entire Congress should have voted a long time ago to avoid all this mess.
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Expect Cruz to start piling up lobbyist pals from oil & gas companies, and like McConnell, he'll mysteriously turn his assets from a few million dollars into a vast fortune of pork from corporations who will just keep polluting Texas air, land and water.
Lori Trammell via Texas Tribune on Facebook
DC is broken beyond repair. Spending addicts don't know how to cut anything. Not enough statesmen up there to fix anything. Only the states can save us now. Starve the federal beast.
Felipe Gutierrez via Texas Tribune on Facebook
@Matt Russell lmao!!!!
Robert Ruiz via Texas Tribune on Facebook
does it really matter what anyone lucid in texas red thinks? we're out numbered by the lunatic fringe. texas red is overwhelmed by its slave state legacy, hateful, mean-spirited misanthropes. anything for the 1 percent is the mantra of all the statewide office holders. sad.
From Texas Red: a cratered landscape of prisons, deplorable apartheid public education, lack of
healthcare and politicians and majority population intent on keeping it that way…
Hasta Siempre,
Prissy Dayton Wisnewski via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Cruz is an idiot and will only add to the craziness that represents Texas and makes us the laughing stock of the nation.
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Spending addicts? You mean like Dubya with 2 unfunded wars and tax cuts for the wealthy that turned Clinton's surplus into a deficit? The GOP and the bridges to nowhere? The GOP and bloated defense budgets with McCain screaming for an invasion of Syria? Yeah, those GOP big spenders, what hypocrites!
Deborah Moss Sisco via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The Texas delegation should vote for the majority of their constituents who are middle class and poor citizens who cannot afford a tax hike!
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Cruz represents the wing nuts of this state, Cronyn the oil companies and the average Texan is sh$t out of luck!
Martha Laramore Range via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Prissy and Luisa.. why don't you start thinking with your brain for once. BO put more debt on the American people in his first four years in office than ALL the other Presidents combined.. YOU GET THAT???? <<<<The Texas delegation should have voted NO>>>
Randy Thompson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
"Starve the beast" is at best simple minded - and for Texas hypocritical - Tarrant County - Fort Worth home of multiple T-Bag groups - is the number three receiver of federal $$ behind LA and Chicago counties...Texas also drives on some fine Federal Interstate highways and with out the Army Corps of Engineers wouldn't have clean drinking water...the state receives more in federal money than in taxes it pays in...so stop bitching and pay your taxes...
Rudy Miller via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We are still waiting for the spending cuts the dems promised Reagan and Bush 1! Do not trust the politicians!
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Martha, where was your brain in 2008 when Bush left President Obama with a crashed economy and 750,000 jobs lost every month and $1 billion per month being spent on that stupid war in Iraq?
Curtis McCaffity via Texas Tribune on Facebook
NO
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
"When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend, because I am the friend of its happiness: when these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and its government." Thomas Paine
Merryl Redding via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Texas is a federal DONOR state, where we pay more in so that other states gain the benefit of our taxes!
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
You've got it backwards, Meryyl. The Federal government pays more for our backwards schools, our emergency rooms than Texas pays in taxes. You also neglect the cost of our pollution and coal emissions that create more asthma in children, not to mention federal subsidies for oil companies for the last century.
Joey Halbert via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I think our reps should vote for DC to spend less than they take from us in taxes.
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
@Martha the fact you believe Obama created more debt than all other presidents is hilarious! Turn off FAUX and use Google. Why? That is just one big repeated GOP lie the misinformed believe.
Bambi Clark via Texas Tribune on Facebook
P.S 350-450 billion of the 1.3 trillion being spent is interest. Obama inherited 10.2 trillion in debt AND a crashed economy. Look it up!
Andy Garza via Texas Tribune on Facebook
So Bambi in the last 4 years and 4 years down the road what will Obama have done? You seem to want to pass the buck just like Obama does. Bottom line is fiscally this is the biggest mess we've ever been in...
Glenda Turck via Texas Tribune on Facebook
They SHOULD have voted for the compromise but being rich men they would have probably have voted for their own interests.
Samdavis
Don't "starve the beast", starve politicians like Perry and Cruz who feast off putting their own interests first. Marginalize those voters who still support the TEA Party even after its attempts to destroy government and deny people basic rights.
Ralph Bolgiano via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Right! But taxes on WHOM? All those folks who have been hoarding their money (often in the Bahamas) rather than investing it in America!
Candace Cea via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Pardon, it was Clinton and the Community Reinvestment Act which started the whole economic mess. Look it up. You who have Bush derangement syndrome need to get your heads out of the sand. We need you. I notice that the Tribune leans towards the demagogue party. It puts little subtle labels on fiscal conservatives. Ted Cruz has strong ties to Goldman Sachs and will probably VOTE for bills which support big money. Could we please get a candidate who has integrity, courage and knows something about economics for the US Senate?
Luisa Inez Newton via Texas Tribune on Facebook
We're still spending $19 million per hour on the war in Afghanistan, which Bush bungled due to the Iraq invasion. Try reading Mr. Rick's new book "The Generals" to find out about how massively Bush failed at war and at the economy
Meme Me
Candace, You are right about Clinton and the Community Reinvestment Act. That IS what bust this economy and the housing market. The banks were FORCED to make loans to people who were never qualified to buy. No Doc loans with stated income. That is, I earn xyz with no proof. The Equivalent of giving out loans for a Roles Royce with -0- cash down, to people qualified to buy a 93 Toyota. Millions of these loans crashed and burned....
Stanley Moore via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Martha Range--that dog won't hunt. Do some research. Just some crap from Rush or Faux Noise.
Meryl-- Texas barely pays in more. Texas benefits from the fed. Been on a freeway lately? Seen any military bases? Texas gets a whole lot more in the bargain. And you get that toad Perry.
You baggers need to read more
Lance Lowry via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It looks like the Koch Brothers own another US Senator. I wish I had $50,000,000,000.00 to buy my own government too. It's scary the Tea Party people follow this type of propaganda, but so did millions in Nazi Germany including the Koch brother's own family...
Steve Fields via Texas Tribune on Facebook
CNSNews.com) – The U.S. Senate voted 89-8 to approve legislation to avoid the fiscal cliff despite having only 3 minutes to read the 154-page bill and budget score.
Carolyn Mata via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Timed Cruz should not bother to weigh in. He has no credibility with me.
Candace Cea via Texas Tribune on Facebook
You mean as in carpetbaggers?
Lance Lowry via Texas Tribune on Facebook
The modern term is TeaBaggers.
Christine Lund
It's amazing that Cornyn couldn't find the time to find relief for the Hurricane Sandy victims for over two months now. And now they've put it off until the 15th. If Texas had ever been treated that way, there'd have been a big fight. How dare the Republican Party punish a whole state so they can use it for negotiation. Cornyn needs to be replaced ASAP. It's like having a Northerner in office representing our state. It's embarrassing.