[W]hat Republican leadership said is we want this to pass, but if every senator affirmatively consents to doing it on 51 votes, then we can all cast a vote no and we can go home to our constituents and say we opposed it. And listen, that sort of show vote, that sort of trickery to the constituents is why Congress has a 13 percent approval rating.
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz to CNN's Dana Bash, on the vote to raise the debt ceiling