Cruz: We Have a Majority. What Now?

Monica Sanchez | January 12, 2015
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“It ain’t complicated,” Cruz said. “We need to do what we promised we would do.”

At the Heritage Action for America Conservative Policy Summit Monday evening, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) laid out 10 agenda items for Republicans in Congress to tackle now that they have assumed a majority on the Hill.

His 10 points went as follows: 

1. “We must embrace a big pro-jobs, growth agenda,” starting, but not ending, with the Keystone Pipeline.

2. “We need to do everything humanly possible to repeal Obamacare."

Cruz argued that the White House needs to acknowledge that its national healthcare law is not working and to repeal it so as to start over and learn from its mistakes. 

“If you like your health insurance plan, you can keep it," Cruz said. "We need to codify that.”  

 3. “We need to finally secure the border and stop the President’s unconstitutional amnesty.”

4. “We need to hold government accountable and rein in judicial activism.”

The Texas senator touched upon marriage law in particular, expressing how marriage is a question of the states, not of elected federal judges who disagree and overturn the votes of U.S. citizens. 

5. We need to put a "stop the culture of corruption in Washington.”

Serving in Congress should not be a lifetime job, Cruz noted. 

6. “We need to pass fundamental tax reform, making taxes flatter, simpler, and fairer and abolish the IRS.”

Sen. Cruz called the IRS a weapon utilized by the White House to target specific persons or groups of U.S. citizens. 

“We have seen the weaponization of the IRS by the Obama administration,” Cruz said. 

7. “We need to audit the federal government.”

8. We need "to pass a strong balanced budget amendment.” 

“Don’t bankrupt our kids and grandkids,” Sen. Cruz demanded. “Follow the Constitution.”

9. “We need to repeal Common Core.”

“We need to get the government out of the business of dictating educational standards,” Cruz said.

“Education is far too important to be governed by unelected bureaucrats.”

10. Lastly, “we’ve got to deal seriously with the twin threats of ISIL and a nuclear Iran.”

“These are dangerous times,” Cruz said.

“Our hearts weep for the journalists wrongfully murdered, for the police officers targeted and murdered, for the Jewish customers at a grocery store murdered for who they are.”

“These are not isolated incidents. These are not challenges for law enforcement. This is a concerted, radical, dangerous attack that seeks to undermine the very basis of free civilization.”

He continued,

“You cannot win a war against radical Islamic terrorism with an administration that refuses to utter the words, ‘radical Islamic terrorism.’”

The Texas senator discussed President Barack Obama’s failure to participate in the Paris unity rally over the weekend.

“How sad was it in the streets of Paris, as 40 world leaders walked down the street. Absent was the United States. Where was the President?”

He went on to blast the White House for their “weakness” and “dangerous lack of resolve.”

As an overarching theme, Cruz urges Republicans in Congress not to let this opportunity “to lead on jobs, liberty and security” slip away. 

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