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About senator Ted Cruz

Ted grew up in Texas. His father, Rafael, fled Cuba after being tortured and imprisoned and came to Texas with just $100 sewn into his underwear. Rafael got a job washing dishes making 50 cents an hour and learned English. He worked hard and attended the University of Texas at Austin, earning a degree in mathematics. He later started a small business in the oil and gas industry. Today, Rafael is a pastor in Dallas.

Ted’s mother, Eleanor, was born in Delaware to an Irish and Italian working-class family. She became the first in her family to go to college, graduating from Rice University with a degree in mathematics. She broke boundaries at Shell as one of the few women working as a computer programmer at the dawn of the computer age.

EDUCATION & EARLY CAREER

Ted earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton and his law degree from Harvard Law School. After law school, Ted clerked for Chief Justice Rehnquist and then worked in private practice. In 1999, Ted joined George W. Bush’s campaign for president as a domestic policy advisor. The best thing about Ted’s experience on the Bush-Cheney campaign, by far, was meeting Heidi Nelson, who also worked on the policy team. Heidi and Ted married after the campaign.

REPRESENTING TEXAS

After working at the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission during the Bush administration, Ted moved back home to be the Solicitor General of Texas. As Solicitor General, Ted argued eight cases before the Supreme Court of the United States, and defended our freedom of speech, our right to keep and bear arms, and our religious liberty in courts across the nation. Following his service as Solicitor General, Ted returned to private practice, where he continued to litigate high stakes cases and argued his ninth case before the Supreme Court.

Ted and Heidi also started their family, welcoming Caroline and Catherine.

US SENATOR FOR TEXAS

In 2013, Ted was sworn into the United States Senate, where he has been a passionate fighter for limited government, economic growth, and national security. He has authored dozens of legislative measures that have been signed into law, including expanding 529 college savings accounts to allow parents to save for K-12 public, private, and religious education, repealing Obamacare’s individual mandate, imposing sanctions on terrorists who use civilians as human shields, designating North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism, targeting Putin’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline through multiple bills that halted construction and kept it stalled, reauthorizing and reforming NASA, holding dictatorships in South America accountable, and ensuring the availability of additional records to help solve civil rights cold cases.

He is also leading the fight in the Senate to support Texas jobs, rein in Big Tech, secure the border, and fundamentally reassess the U.S.-China relationship and hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for covering up the coronavirus pandemic, committing human rights atrocities, and engaging in censorship, propaganda, and espionage in the United States.

Education

JD, Harvard Law School, 1992-1995

AB, Public Policy, Princeton University, 1988-1992

Political Experience

Senator, United States Senate, 2013-present

Candidate, United States Senate, 2018

Candidate, President of the United States, 2016

Current Legislative Committees

Member, Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Member, Committee on Foreign Relations

Member, Committee on Rules and Administration

Member, Committee on the Judiciary

Member, Joint Economic Committee

Member, Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Policy

Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation

Member, Subcommittee on Border Security and Immigration

Member, Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband

Member, Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism

Member, Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism

Member, Subcommittee on Oceans, Fisheries, Climate Change and Manufacturing

Member, Subcommittee on Space and Science

Ranking Member, Subcommittee on The Constitution

Member, Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women’s Issues

Caucuses/Former Committees

Former Member, Airland Subcommittee, United States Senate

Former Member, Armed Services Committee, United States Senate

Former Member, Aviation Operations, Safety, and Security Subcommittee, United States Senate

Former Member, Consumer Protection, Product Safety, Insurance, and Data Security Subcommittee, United States Senate

Former Member, Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee, United States Senate

Former Chair, Space, Science, and Competitiveness Subcommittee, United States Senate

Former Member, Strategic Forces Subcommittee, United States Senate

Former Chair, Subcommittee on Aviation and Space, United States Senate

Former Member, Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, Innovation and the Internet, United States Senate

Former Member, Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries, and Coast Guard, United States Senate

Former Chair, Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights, and Federal Courts, United States Senate

Former Member, Subcommittee on Science, Oceans, Fisheries, and Weather, United States Senate

Former Member, Subcommittee on Seapower, United States Senate

Former Member, Subcommittee on Security, United States Senate

Former Chair, Subcommittee on The Constitution, United States Senate

Professional Experience

Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Limited Liability Partnership, 2008-2013

Adjunct Professor of Law, United States Court Litigation, University of Texas School of Law, 2004-2009

Solicitor General of Texas, Office of the Attorney General, 2003-2008

Director, Office of Policy Planning, Federal Trade Commission, 2001-2003

Coordinator, Department of Justice, Bush-Cheney Transition Team, 2000-2001

Associate Deputy Attorney General, United States Department of Justice, 2001

Florida Recount Team, Bush-Cheney Presidential Campaign, 2000

Domestic Policy Advisor, Bush Presidential Campaign, 1999-2000

Associate, Cooper/Carvin & Rosenthal, 1997-1999

Law Clerk, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Supreme Court of the United States, 1996-1997

Law Clerk, Judge J. Michael Luttig, United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, 1995-1996

Religious, Civic, and other Memberships

Member, American Law Institute

Executive Editor, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy

Founding Editor, Harvard Latino Law Review

Primary Editor, Harvard Law Review

Board Member, Hispanic Alliance for Progress

Director/Former Vice President, Texas Lyceum

Member, Texas Philosophical Society

Board Member, Texas Review of Law & Politics