Ted Cruz doesn't even know what the Senate rules are!

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COMMENTS:
*  The amazing thing is not that Cruz has a personality disorder, it's that he's a United States senator. Unbelievable.
*  Cruz doesn't care about governing. He's a bomb thrower and all they care about is throwing bombs. The day to day work of being a senator has never appealed to him given his attendance record on votes and in committee meetings. He has more "important" things on his mind. I mean it's not as if he was elected to represent the people of Texas or anything as boring as that. He was elected so he could have a platform to run for president and audition for a job at Fox News. Everybody knows that.
*  Clearly Cruz' Presidential campaigning and fundraising is interfering with the duties his constituents sent him to Washington to do. We told you so
*  Ted Cruz is probably the greatest Monday morning quarterback in the entire congress right now. There are others but Cruz is particularly loud. What are his "solutions" to the problems Americans face. He never really says...He only restates the problem and screams Obama, liberty, freedom, Clinton, Constitution, and a few other red meat buzz words. Crazy thing is the press, knowing better, let's him get away with this foolishness.
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Capitol Hill Buzz: Cruz discusses missing Lynch vote
By Donna Cassata and Erica Werner, April 30, 2015

Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, a declared presidential candidate, has a new defense for missing Attorney General Loretta Lynch's confirmation vote last week. According to Cruz, not voting was the same as voting "no."

"I voted twice against Loretta Lynch being confirmed. There was no significance to the final vote. And I had a scheduling conflict. Under the Senate rules, absence is the equivalent of a 'no' vote. It is identical procedurally," Cruz told reporters on Capitol Hill Thursday.

In fact, missing a confirmation vote isn't the same as voting "no," and could affect the outcome. And Senate rules don't say otherwise.

Cruz's office has insisted all along that the procedural "cloture" vote on Lynch's nomination last week was the one that mattered, and Cruz opposed that. He then became the only senator to miss the final vote, despite having delivered a floor speech earlier in the day railing against Lynch.

His office didn't explain why he missed the final vote, although Cruz was expected that evening at a fundraiser in Texas.

Cruz repeated the cloture explanation to reporters, telling them: "Cloture was the vote that mattered. It required 60 votes."

In fact cloture on Lynch took only a simple majority under a rules change on nominations pushed through by Democrats. "Fair point. Sorry I actually thought of the rules as they were written," Cruz said when reporters corrected him on that point.

Lynch was confirmed April 23 on a vote of 56-43, with Cruz recorded as "not voting."

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