2024 Texas Voter Guide Footnotes

1.) Congressional Website, HR.2882 VOTED AGAINST – Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 – a $1.2 Trillion spending bill 3/23/2024: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00114.htm 

Congressional Website, HR.5376 VOTED AGAINST – Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 – Purports to bring down inflation by increasing regulations, including cutting emissions in half by 2030 and net zero emissions by 2050.  Phases out gas-powered vehicles. 8/16/2022: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00325.htm 

Congressional Website, HR.1319 VOTED AGAINST – American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 – a bill that enacted a policy requiring online sellers to report and keep track of all transactions over $600 3/11/2021: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319 

Congressional Website, HR.815 VOTED AGAINST- Making emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2024 – the appropriation bill tying together funds for to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan. 4/24/2024: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00048.htm 

2.) Congressional Website, H.Res.1102 VOTED FOR – Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 – A $1.2 Trillion spending bill 3/22/2024: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024102 

Congressional Website, H.R.5376 VOTED FOR Motion to Concur – Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 – which purports to bring down inflation by increasing regulations, including cutting emissions in half by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050. This phases out gas-powered vehicles. 8/16/2022: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022420 

Congressional Website, H.R.1319 VOTED FOR American Rescue Act of 2021 a bill that enacted a policy requiring online sellers to report and keep track of all transactions over $600 3/11/2021: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202172 

Congressional Website, H.R.1941 Co-Sponsored  Coastal and Maine Economies Protection Act  which would prohibit drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts 9/12/2019: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2019525 

3.) Congressional Website, S.2824 Sponsored – Secure the Border Act of 2023 – Resume border wall construction, increased funding for technology for border and port security, manpower assistance to Border Patrol and ICE Enforcement Removal Operations, and protection to families seeking entry at the border as well as unaccompanied alien children. 1/11/2024: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/2824 

Congressional Website, S.Admt.1948 to S.Admt.1959 to H.R.2579 VOTED FOR Broader Options for Americans Act – To ensure that State and local law enforcement may cooperate with Federal officials to protect our communities from violent criminals and suspected terrorists who are illegally present in the United States. 2/15/2018: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1152/vote_115_2_00034.htm 

Congressional Website, S.3100 VOTED FOR-  Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act – A bill to ensure that State and local law enforcement may cooperate with Federal officials to protect our communities from violent criminals and suspected terrorists who are illegally present in the United States. 7/6/2016: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1142/vote_114_2_00119.htm 

Congressional Website, S.2146 VOTED FOR – Stop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act – A bill to hold sanctuary jurisdictions accountable for defying Federal law, to increase penalties for individuals who illegally reenter the United States after being removed, and to provide liability protection for State and local law enforcement who cooperate with Federal law enforcement and for other purposes. 10/20/2015: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1141/vote_114_1_00280.htm 

Congressional Website, H.R.2882 VOTED FOR – Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024- Hagerty amendment prohibiting taxpayer money being used for flying illegals into the US for resettlement. 3/23/2024: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1182/vote_118_2_00112.htm 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – Cruz: “We promised the American people – the steelworkers, the truck drivers –that we wouldn’t pass amnesty. Republicans should not be going to the left of President Obama and granting a path to citizenship” 2/15/2018: https://x.com/SenTedCruz/status/964190887155822592 

4.) Congressional Website, H.R.2 VOTED AGAINST – Secure the Border Act – Bill would resume construction of the border wall, limit asylum eligibility and require asylum-seekers to wait in Mexico. 5/16/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023209 

Congressional Website, H.R.5376 VOTE FOR – Build Back Better Act – Grants mass amnesty to illegal immigrants 8/16/2022: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021385 

Congressional Website, H.R.16 Co-Sponsored – American Dream and Promise Act of 2023 – This bill provides amnesty and green cards to millions of illegal immigrants. 6/15/2023: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/16/cosponsors 

Congressional Website, H.R.2494 VOTED AGAINST –  Police Act – This bill makes assaulting a law enforcement officer, firefighter, or other first responder a deportable offense. 5/18/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023225 

Congressional Website, H.R.51 VOTED AGAINST – Washington DC Admission Act – The motion would prohibit Washington D.C. from becoming a sanctuary state. (An “against” vote would allow D.C. to become a sanctuary state.) 9/8/2020: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2020121 

Article, Medium Media – “Meet the Former NFL Lineback Running for Congress in Texas” – Interview question: “I want to touch on…Senate Bill 4, the so-called sanctuary cities bill [a bill that would have prohibited sanctuary policies], is on its way to becoming law in Texas. How do you feel about Senate Bill 4…?  Allred: I think Senate Bill 4 is a misguided and discriminatory piece of legislation that, if it is signed into law, will be a stain on our state’s history. It is the equivalent of the Arizona show your papers law (SB 1070). I think it is a big mistake and I also think it is not who we are as Texans. Following this national trend trying to act tough on immigration is not the Texas way, in my opinion.” 5/6/2017: https://medium.com/rantt/meet-the-former-nfl-linebacker-running-for-congress-in-texas-1013e71d3f1d 

Article, Fox News – “Texas Dem’s Senate ad features border wall he once blasted as racist” – Dem Rep Colin Allred appeared with border wall in campaign ad this summer – He stated, “If they build that racist wall, my generation is the one that will tear it down. You’re not going to have a wall in this country.” 9/12/2024: https://archive.ph/iE1mn 

5.) Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X “Oil prices are at the highest level in 6 years. Meanwhile, Biden is killing American energy independence, stopping US pipelines, and making it easier to build Russian pipelines. America needs an all-of-the-above energy policy, not the Green New Deal.” 6/6/2021: https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1412526231967387658 

Congressional Website, S.171 Co-Sponsored – Keystone XL Pipeline Construction and Jobs Preservation Act – This bill authorizes the TransCanada Keystone Pipeline to construct, connect, operate, and maintain the pipeline facilities in Phillips County, Montana, for the import of oil from Canada to the United States. 2/02/2021: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/171/cosponsors 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “…Democrats plan to ban fracking would: 

eliminate up to 14 million jobs, increase household energy costs by billions, cost the U.S. economy trillions” 7/11/2020: https://x.com/SenTedCruz/status/1282030648509689858 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “President Biden campaigned on shutting down drilling in America.  Record breaking gas prices are a result of President Biden’s political promises.” 4/5/2022: https://x.com/SenTedCruz/status/1511401455797915649 

6.) Congressional Website, H.R.7176 VOTED AGAINST Unlocking our Domestic LNG Potential Act of 2024 -This bill repeals certain restrictions on the import and export of natural gas under the Natural Gas Act, including requirements for Department of Energy (DOE) approval and related provisions that address free trade agreements. 2/15/2024: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202452 

Article, Houston Chronicle “Colin Allred to Biden: End the pause on LNG exports, Opinion” (Allred voted against lifting restrictions on LNG in Feb 2024. His position changed within 6 months of the election.) 5/10/2024: https://archive.ph/GYjDJ 

Congressional Website, VOTED AGAINST the motion to recommit – that would prohibit the sale of oil drawn from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to entities under the control of the Chinese Communist Party or for export to China. See supporting information – https://repcloakroom.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/MTR_HR8294.pdf 

Congressional Website, H.R.1941 Co-Sponsored – Coastal and Marine Economies Protection Act – Prohibits drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. 9/12/2019: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2019525 

Congressional Website, H.R.22 VOTED FOR – Protecting America’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve from China Act – This bill prohibits the sale and export of crude oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) to China 1/25/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202331 

7.) Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “FACT: Right now, there are illegal aliens receiving #COVID relief checks.” 3/18/2021: https://x.com/sentedcruz/status/1372619177123577856 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “It’s not an accident that there is a crisis on the border. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris campaigned on open borders and giving free health care to illegal aliens.” 7/16/2022: https://x.com/sentedcruz/status/1548425994867965952 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “This is outrageous. Biden and Mayorkas are kicking American children out of the schools’ we citizens pay for in order to house illegal aliens. Our government is supposed to be of, for, and by the citizens of this country, but it’s clear this administration put citizens dead last.” 1/9/2024: https://x.com/sentedcruz/status/1744902609184432372 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “In September 2020, Joe Biden called for mass amnesty and health care benefits for illegal immigrants, signaling to future illegal immigrants that if he became president the doors would be wide open.” 3/16/2021: https://x.com/sentedcruz/status/1371964529001762818 

8.) Congressional Website, H.R.6800 VOTED FOR – Heroes Act – allows each family to receive up to $6,000 in stimulus money (including illegal immigrants.) 7/23/2020: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2020109 

Collin Allred, Twitter/X – “I believe in Medicare for all. Access to quality and affordable healthcare is a right, one that too many of our fellow North Texans have been denied for too long” (Medicare for All Act of 2021 includes illegal immigrants) 1/27/2018: https://x.com/colinallredtx/status/957343744914796545 

9.) Congressional Website, H.R.5376 VOTED AGAINST – Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 -purports to bring down inflation by increasing regulations, including cutting emissions in half by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050. This phases out gas-powered vehicles. 

8/16/2022: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00325.htm 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “President Biden’s $2 trillion plan is really just the Green New Deal-lite masquerading as an infrastructure plan. His proposal calls for more money to be spent on electric vehicles than on America’s roads, bridges, ports, airports, and waterways combined.” 4/6/2021: https://x.com/sentedcruz/status/13795488460748349488 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “They call Trump a “dictator” but it’s Biden who forced a vaccine mandate, weaponized the federal government, and unilaterally giving trillions to forgive student loans.” 3/4/2024: https://x.com/sentedcruz/status/1764701074731012240 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “The rest of the country outside of Washington, D.C. is waking up. It’s time to end the tyrannical vaccine mandate!” 3/10/2022: https://x.com/sentedcruz/status/15021175386370048422 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X  – “ RELEASE: Sens. Cruz, Cramer Introduce Bills to Ban Mask and Vaccine Mandates” See press release – https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sens-cruz-cramer-introduce-bills-to-ban-mask-and-vaccine-mandates  

8/9/2021: https://x.com/sentedcruz/status/1424904491850215429 

Congressional Website, S.167 Sponsored – No Vaccine Mandates Act of 2023 – This bill creates a federal statutory framework to govern restrictions and requirements related to COVID-19 vaccinations. 1/31/2023: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/167/text 

10.) Congressional Website, H.R.4468 VOTED AGAINST – Choice in Automobile Retail Sales Act – This bill limits the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with regard to regulating emissions standards for new motor vehicles. Specifically, the EPA is prohibited from prescribing a regulation related to new motor vehicle emissions standards. 12/26/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023703 

Congressional Website, H.R.5376 VOTED for Motion to Concur – Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 – which purports to bring down inflation by increasing regulations, including cutting emissions in half by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050. This phases out gas-powered vehicles.  8/16/2022: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022420 

Congressional Website, H.R.497 VOTED AGAINST – Freedom for Health Care Workers Act – This bill nullifies the rule titled Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Omnibus COVID-19 Health Care Staff Vaccination, which was issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on November 5, 2021, and prohibits the issuance of any substantially similar rule. The rule requires health care providers, as a condition of Medicare and Medicaid participation, to ensure that staff are fully vaccinated against COVID-19. 1/31/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202398 

Congressional Website, H.Res.75 VOTED AGAINST – Providing for consideration of the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 7) relating to a national emergency declared by the President on March 13, 2020; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R.139) to require Executive agencies to submit to Congress a study of the impacts of expanded telework and remote work by agency employees during the COVID-19 pandemic and a plan for the agency’s future use of telework and remote work, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 382) to terminate the public health emergency declared with respect to COVID-19; and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 497) to eliminate the COVID-19 vaccine mandate on health care providers furnishing items and services under certain Federal health care programs. 1/31/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023966 

Congressional Website, H.R.2 VOTED AGAINST – Secure the Border Act or 2023 – SEC. 121. PROHIBITION AGAINST ANY COVID–19 VACCINE MANDATE OR ADVERSE ACTION AGAINST DHS EMPLOYEES. (a) Limitation On Imposition of New Mandate. —The Secretary may not issue any COVID–19 vaccine mandate unless Congress expressly authorizes such a mandate. 5/11/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023209 

11.) Congressional Website, S.204 Co-Sponsored – Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act – This bill establishes requirements for the degree of care a health care practitioner must provide in the case of a child born alive following an abortion or attempted abortion. 2/1/2023: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/204/cosponsorss 

Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “VA gov’s pro-abortion dogma is so extreme that he advocates taking the life of babies AFTER they are born. Watch the video. Every human life is precious—a gift from God—and the modern Democratic party’s embrace of late-term (or post-birth) abortion is truly tragic.” 1/30/2019: https://x.com/tedcruz/status/1090825037622534147 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “I’m proud to be an original co-sponsor of the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act and the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act. These are both common-sense bills…” 2/24/2020: https://x.com/sentedcruz/status/12320893318855843855 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “It is no surprise that today Senate Democrats voted in opposition to the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act. I cosponsored  

Sen. Sasse’s bill as this is common-sense legislation that would have protected the lives of newborn babies from infanticide, saving millions.” 2/25/2019: https://x.com/sentedcruz/status/1100173342198374407 

12.) Congressional Website, H.R.26 VOTED AGAINST – Born Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act – This bill establishes requirements for the degree of care a health care practitioner must provide in the case of a child born alive following an abortion or attempted abortion. 1/11/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202329 

13.) Congressional Website, S.251 VOTED FOR – Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act of 2021 -This bill makes it a violation of federal law for a recipient of federal funds who operates, sponsors, or facilitates athletic programs or activities to permit a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls. The bill specifies that sex shall be recognized based solely on a person’s reproductive biology and genetics at birth. 2/4/2021: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/251/cosponsors 

Congressional Website, S.3035 Co-Sponsored – Protecting Our Kids from Harmful Research Act – This bill prohibits the use of federal funds for research or publications concerning gender transitions in individuals under the age of 18. 10/4/2023: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3035/ 

Article, Business Insider “Ted Cruz says teachers are bringing ‘explicit pornography’ to class as Texas leads the way in book wars” – “I don’t believe schools should be teaching explicit pornography to kids and advocates on the left that want schools to teach explicit pornography to kids are far out of the mainstream,” he said. “I think most moms and most dads don’t want their elementary school teaching pornography to their children. They want them teaching, reading and writing, and math history.” 2/11/2022: https://www.businessinsider.com/ted-cruz-pornography-book-banning-teachers-culture-wars-texas-2022-2 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “Ketanji Brown Jackson sits on the board of the Georgetown Day School. Some of the assigned or recommended books for students include: “Critical Race Theory: An Introduction” “The End of Policing” “How to Be an Anti-Racist” and “Anti-Racist Baby” by Ibram X. Kendi” 3/22/2022: https://x.com/sentedcruz/status/1506437771799539715 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “…against the effort by the Biden Administration to impose their radical transgender agenda on our nation’s schools. Let’s get one thing clear, President Biden and the Democrats are threatening to take away the school lunches of ALL American schoolchildren in order to impose their radical transgender ideology. Before Biden’s USDA decided to condition access to the school lunch program on whether or not a school allows boys inside the girls’ bathroom or lets boys compete in sports against girls, NO school in ANY state denied food to a student for any reason – race, religion, ethnicity, or any other identity. I, and my fellow Republicans, have never supported denying students school lunches for ANY reason. 10/26/2023: https://x.com/SenTedCruz/status/1717643348431737198 

Congressional Website, S.J.Res 42 VOTED FOR – A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code. Resolution submitted in response to Biden-Harris Exec Order 13988 on Title IX, directing federal agencies to review, revise, suspend, or rescind any agency policy that did not align with the admin sexual orientation and gender identity agenda. In this case, funding for school lunches could be stopped until schools complied with allowing boys in girls’ sports or girls’ bathrooms. 7/27/2023: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1181/vote_118_1_00272.htm 

Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “I served with Kamala Harris in the Senate, and she was proudly to the left of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren.  She even supported taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for illegal aliens.” 9/10/2024: https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1833524790868762824 

14.) Congressional Website, H.R.734 VOTED AGAINST – Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act- prohibits school athletic programs from allowing individuals whose biological sex at birth was male to participate in programs that are for women or girls. 4/20/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023192 

Congressional Website, H.R.5 VOTED FOR – Equality Act – would extend Title IV of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes, which could lead to changes in school curriculums and require texts to affirm and promote views on gender and sexuality 2/25/2021: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202139 

Congressional Website, H.R.2670 VOTED AGAINST – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 – H.Amdt.223 to H.R.2670 – Prohibiting TRICARE from covering and the Department of Defense from furnishing sex reassignment surgeries and gender hormone treatments for transgender individuals. 7/27/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023301 

WATCH AFTHQ YouTube video – “Ted Cruz is doing everything he can to make teachers’ jobs harder. By policing what is taught in our schools, by banning books, by waging one cultural war after another. It’s exhausting.” @53:08 7/22/2024: https://www.youtube.com/live/xux0jNAHqEI 

Congressional Website, H.R.6592 Co-Sponsored – Fight Book Bans Act – To authorize the Secretary of Education to provide grants to local educational agencies to cover the costs of challenges to book bans. Offered as a counter to book bans. 12/5/2023: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/6592/cosponsors 

Congressional Website, H.Res.733 Co-Sponsored – Expressing concern about the spreading problem of book banning and the proliferation of threats to freedom of expression in the United States. – “Whereas, according to PEN America, 36 percent of instances of books banned or otherwise restricted in the United States from July 2021 to June 2023 have LGBTQ+ characters or themes that recognize the equal humanity and dignity of all individuals despite differences, including—(1) “And Tango Makes Three” by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell; and(2) “This Book Is Gay” by Juno Dawson;” 9/27/2023: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-resolution/733/cosponsors 

15.) Congressional Website, S.109 VOTED FOR – No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion and Abortion Insurance Full Disclosure Act of 2019 – This bill modifies provisions relating to federal funding for, and health insurance coverage of, abortions. 1/10/2019: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1161/vote_116_1_00007.htm 

Congressional Website, S.2311 VOTED FOR – Pain Capable Unborn Child Protection Act – Federal ban on abortion after 20 weeks. 1/16/2018: https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/2311 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “Overturning Roe is not banning abortion. It is giving it back to the states – like it was before Roe was wrongly decided. If you don’t like the laws where you live – engage in the democratic process.” 6/25/2022: https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1540811873347670017 

Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “…VA gov’s pro-abortion dogma is so extreme that he advocates taking the life of babies AFTER they are born. Watch the video. Every human life is precious—a gift from God—and the modern Democratic party’s embrace of late-term (or post-birth) abortion is truly tragic.” 1/30/2019: https://x.com/tedcruz/status/1090825037622534147 

16.) Congressional Website, H.R.1723 Co- Sponsored – Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act of 2023 – This bill authorizes using certain foreign assistance funds to provide comprehensive reproductive health care services in developing countries, including abortion services, training, and equipment.  3/22/2023: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/1723/cosponsors 

Congressional Website, H.Amdt.222 to H.R.2670 VOTED AGAINST – National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 –  Prohibiting the Secretary of Defense from paying for or reimbursing expenses relating to abortion services.  7/27/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023300 

Congressional Website, H.R.3755 VOTED FOR – Women’s Health Protection Act – A bill to protect a person’s ability to determine whether to continue or end a pregnancy, and to protect a health care provider’s ability to provide abortion services. 9/24/2021: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021295 

Candidate Website, Colin Allred for Senate, On the Issues – “Colin believes women should have the freedom to make their own reproductive health care decisions, without interference from the government. He strongly opposed the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision and supports legislation to make the protections under Roe v. Wade the law of the land.” 2024: https://colinallred.com/on-the-issues/ 

Congressional Website, H.R.8297 VOTED FOR – Ensuring Access to Abortion Act  -Protects the right to cross state lines to have an abortion. 7/15/2022: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022362 

17.) Senate Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “77% of Americans support requiring photo ID to vote. That’s because unlike Congressional Democrats, the vast majority of Americans understand that voter ID prevents fraud and protects the integrity of our elections.” 5/11/2021: https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1392244107968458754 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “Here’s one of the most important things you need to know about The Corrupt Politicians Act: Democrats have designed it to empower them to register millions of illegal aliens to vote.” 5/11/2021: https://x.com/sentedcruz/status/1392186559970127874 

Candidate Website, Ted Cruz US Senator for Texas, Press Release – “This legislation strikes down virtually every voter integrity law adopted at the state level. Voter ID laws – over 70 percent of Americans support voter ID laws. By the way, over 60 percent of African Americans in this country support voter ID laws. Twenty-nine states have voter ID laws on the books. What does this legislation do? Strikes them all down. Says it’s illegal for any state to have a voter ID law, ballot harvesting, 31 states prohibit ballot harvesting. Why? Because it is a corrupt practice where paid operatives handle the ballots of someone else, and it has repeatedly led to instances of stealing votes. What does this bill do? It strikes down all 31 states, restrictions on ballot harvesting.” 5/11/2021: https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-cruz-on-s1-and-145this-bill-doesn-and-146t-protect-voting-rights-it-steals-voting-rights-from-the-american-people-and-146 

Congressional Website, S.1 VOTED AGAINST – For the People Act of 2021 – SEC. 3. FINDINGS OF GENERAL CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY…(C) As a result, Congress finds that it has the authority pursuant to section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to protect the right to vote. Congress also finds that States and localities have eroded access to the right to vote through restrictions on the right to vote including excessively onerous voter identification requirements, burdensome voter registration procedures, voter purges, limited and unequal access to voting by mail, polling place closures, unequal distribution of election resources, and other impediments. 3/17/2021: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1171/vote_117_1_00358.htm 

18.) Congressional Website, H.R.4 Co-Sponsored – John R Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act – federalizing elections and making state go through DOJ to change voting laws. Voter ID laws would be considered discriminatory. Voting by mail for all. 8/24/2021: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2021260 

Congressional Website, H.R.8281 VOTED AGAINST – Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act – This bill requires individuals to provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship in order to register to vote in federal elections. 7/10/2024: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2024345 

Congressional Website, H.R.1 VOTE FOR – For the People Act of 2021 – VOTED AGAINST S.1 – For the People Act of 2021 – SEC. 3. FINDINGS OF GENERAL CONSTITUTIONAL AUTHORITY…(C) As a result, Congress finds that it has the authority pursuant to section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment to protect the right to vote. Congress also finds that States and localities have eroded access to the right to vote through restrictions on the right to vote including excessively onerous voter identification requirements, burdensome voter registration procedures, voter purges, limited and unequal access to voting by mail, polling place closures, unequal distribution of election resources, and other impediments. 3/3/2021: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202162 

19.) Congressional Website, S.Res.417 VOTED FOR A Resolution standing with Israel against terrorism 10/19/2023: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1181/vote_118_1_00261.htm 

20.) Congressional Website, H.Res.888 VOTED FOR – Reaffirming the State of Israel’s rights to exist 11/28/2023: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2023677 

21.) Congressional Website, S.2938 VOTED AGAINST – Bipartisan Safer Communities Act – (Sec. 12003) This section allows grants under the Edward Byrne Memorial Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) program to be used to implement state crisis intervention programs or initiatives, including mental health courts, drug courts, veterans’ courts, and extreme risk protection order programs (i.e., red flag laws). 6/25/2022: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00242.htm 

Candidate Website, Ted Cruz US Senator for Texas, Press Release Sen Cruz: “Federal Red Flag Laws Are Not the Answer to Reducing Gun Violence.” –  “In August 2019, a television interviewer asked then candidate Joe Biden the following question, ‘So to gun owners out there who say, “well, a Biden administration means they’re going to come for my guns?’ Biden’s response: ‘Bingo.’ They’re not hiding it. So, it’s no surprise that this administration and Democrats in Congress, and anti-gun groups are all pushing red flag laws that will take guns from law abiding Americans. In Connecticut, for example, 32 percent of confiscation orders are overturned when a judge finally hears both sides of the story, and this is after the government has already seized the firearm. This means that one out of every three people who has his or her firearm seized by the government under Connecticut’s red flag law is an innocent, law abiding citizen. That is an unacceptable rate of protecting constitutional rights.” 4/28/2021: https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-cruz-federal-red-flag-laws-are-not-the-answer-to-reducing-gun-violence 

Candidate Website, Ted Cruz US Senator for Texas, Press Release – “US Sen Ted Cruz statement on Sen Feinstein’s Assault Weapons Ban of 2013” – “…Real assault weapons—machine guns—are already functionally illegal, and they have been since 1934. This proposal would have done nothing to prevent the terrible murders in Newtown, but it would limit the constitutional liberties of law-abiding citizens. And gun control doesn’t work – the empirical data overwhelmingly demonstrate that strict gun-control laws consistently produce more crime and more murders. The Second Amendment exists to ensure that law-abiding Americans can protect their homes and families, and I look forward to helping lead the fight to defeat this bill and to protect our constitutional right to keep and bear arms.” 1/24/2013: https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/us-sen-ted-cruz-statement-on-sen-feinstein-and-146s-assault-weapons-ban-of-20133 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – WATCH: daily wire video – “Cruz Shreds Democrats’ Push For Red Flag Laws ‘As A Way To Open The Door To Comprehensive Gun Control’’ 4/28/2021: https://x.com/sentedcruz/status/1387538365633863680 

Article, Daily Wire News “Cruz shreds Democrats Push for Red Flag Laws ‘As a way to open the door to comprehensive Gun Control” – “…care deeply about stopping violent crime. And gun crime in particular. I’ve spent much of my adult life in law enforcement trying to stop violent criminals who prey upon the innocent and working to ensure that they receive the most stringent punishment,” Cruz said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Red Flag laws. “But one thing is abundantly clear: if the objective is to stop violent crime, restricting the rights of law-abiding citizens doesn’t work. In fact, it typically makes crime worse because when you disarm law-abiding citizens you make them more likely to be victims.” 4/28/2021: https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-cruz-shreds-democrats-push-for-red-flag-laws-as-a-way-to-open-the-door-to-comprehensive-gun-control 

22.) Article, Texas Scorecard News “Colin Allred: America Would be Better Off Without Second Amendment” “Allred has also been a staunch supporter of banning ‘assault’ weapons, with a video taken in 2018 showing him suggesting America would be better off if the Second Amendment had never been written…Allred has also stated that he supports red-flag laws, which allow a state court to issue an order to confiscate guns from anyone they see as a danger to others and themselves without due process.” 5/8/2023: https://texasscorecard.com/federal/colin-allred-america-would-be-better-off-without-second-amendment/ 

Congressional Website, H.R.1808 VOTED FOR – Assault Weapons Ban of 2022 – This bill makes it a crime to knowingly import, sell, manufacture, transfer, or possess a semiautomatic assault weapon (SAW) or large capacity ammunition feeding device (LCAFD). 7/29/2022: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022410 

Congressional Website, S.2938 VOTED FOR – Bipartisan Safer Communities Act -Incentives for states to pass red flag laws, background checks for people under 21 years old. 6/25/2022: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022299 

23.) Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “My colleagues and I filed an amicus brief in U.S. Navy Seals v. Biden in support of 26 service members with religious objections to Biden’s vaccine mandate. Religious freedom is fundamental to every American’s liberty.” 12/20/2021: https://twitter.com/SenTedCruz/status/1473050275049005057 

Congressional Website, H.R.8404 VOTED AGAINST – Respect for Marriage Act – undermines religious liberty by failing to protect individuals, churches, or any organization that honors traditional marriage. The bill creates the potential of religious nonprofits and other tax-exempt organizations being targeted with lawsuits or having their tax-exempt status revoked.12/13/2022: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1172/vote_117_2_00362.htm 

Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “…I believe it is VERY likely that Biden IRS revokes tax-exempt status of churches, charities, universities & K-12 schools that refuse to embrace same-sex marriage (eg, City of Philadelphia targeted Catholic Charities on this).” 11/28/2022: https://x.com/tedcruz/status/1597260130101260291 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “…Congress must work to ensure faith-based institutions are not forced to shut down their services out of fear of frivolous lawsuits.” (In response to Covid shutdowns.) 5/12/2020: https://x.com/SenTedCruz/status/1260334971283279874 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “United CEO Scott Kirby told his employees that “very few people” who requested a religious exemption to their vaccine mandate would be granted one, said his employees would be “putting their job on the line,” & said employees should “be very careful about that.” 12/15/2021: https://x.com/SenTedCruz/status/1471254546278227972 

Senator Ted Cruz, Twitter/X – “Out of 1300 religious exemptions for the coronavirus vaccine, only 4 were granted for the US Coast Guard. This is a stunningly low rate.” 4/28/2022: https://x.com/SenTedCruz/status/1519791965113622528 

Congressional Website, S.4340 Co-Sponsored – SACRED Act – This bill makes a state or local jurisdiction that discriminates against religious individuals or religious institutions ineligible to receive or use funds allocated, appropriated, or authorized to address COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019). 7/28/2020: https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/4340 

24.) Congressional Website, H.R.2725 Co-Sponsored – Do No Harm Act – Would amend the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 to end protections on religious liberty. For instance, a cake baker would not be able to claim a religious exemption for baking a cake against the teachings of their faith. “Civil rights” would trump religious freedom. 4/19/2023: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2725/cosponsors 

Congressional Website, H.R.5 VOTED FOR – Equality Act – Would impact businesses, such as florists, photographers, venue owners, and bakers, who would be required to participate in same-sex weddings or gender transition celebrations. 2/25/2021: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/202139 

Congressional Website, H.R.8404 VOTED FOR – Respect for Marriage Act – undermines religious liberty by failing to protect individuals, churches, or any organization that honors traditional marriage. The bill creates the potential of religious nonprofits and other tax-exempt organizations being targeted with lawsuits or having their tax-exempt status revoked.12/8/2022: https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2022513 

25.) Candidate Website, Ted Cruz US Senator for Texas, Press Release – “Sen. Sanders’ Medicare-for- all plan would bankrupt our country and destroy healthcare quality”  2/07/2017: https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-sanders-and-rsquo-medicare-for-all-plan-would-bankrupt-our-country-and-destroy-healthcare-quality 

Other: Chip Roy, US Congress Press Release – “Rep Roy and Senator Cruz fight for healthcare freedom” – “Representative Chip Roy (R-TX-21) and Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) introduced the “Personalized Care Act”, legislation that will put millions of Americans in control of their healthcare choices by expanding Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) – a mechanism that helps individuals create a personalized approach to their care.”  8/7/2023: https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-roy-and-sen-cruz-fight-healthcare-freedom 

26.) Collin Allred, Twitter/X – “I believe in Medicare for all. Access to quality and affordable healthcare is a right, one that too many of our fellow North Texans have been denied for too long. http://ow.ly/mRud30i2i8T “ 1/27/2018:  https://x.com/colinallredtx/status/957343744914796545 

Article, The Dallas Express – “US Rep Colin Allred Flips Stance on Medicare” – When asked if he supported single-payer Medicare for all…”Well, listen, I don’t support that, but I believe that every Texan deserves quality, affordable healthcare, and that’s what I’ve been fighting for my entire time in Congress,” Allred said, adding he has worked to protect the Affordable Care Act. The statement is an apparent reversal from his previous position on Medicare in his prior campaign.” 1/29/2024: https://dallasexpress.com/national/u-s-rep-collin-allred-flips-stance-on-medicare/ 

WATCH: Minh Hynh YouTube, Congressional District 32 – Colin Allred states, “We have to get to universal healthcare in this country…I believe in Medicare for All. I believe in the Medicare for All buy-in” @30:04 2/5/2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRBmk4zc8yc&t=1089s 

WATCH: Allred Press Team Campaign video – “I believe that everyone should have the option to buy into the Medicare system.”  10/23/2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg4AkbNBoF0