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The Senate confirmed Wilcoxs nomination on July 28, 2021. The transcript of the call then goes on to detail how the Republican leaders should be followed and killed and uses profanity to address Sen. emerging issues facing workers who seek protection under the National Labor Relations Act.
I have just read the, uh, Texas Republican parties platform for this current 2022 year, uh, wherein it is apparent that your colleagues intent, intend to have the voting rights act repealed and not reauthorized? Every last one of your Republican colleagues to have signed off on that platform is to be and found and, is to be found and killed.” This is one of the many Afro-American constituents of whom you are representative of here in Texas, as you currently serve from the Senate. Cruz’s Houston office on Smith Street one day earlier.Ī transcription of the phone call appears in the court document. Ted Cruz, byname of Rafael Edward Cruz, (born December 22, 1970, Calgary, Alberta, Canada), American politician who was elected to the U.S. After 19 children and two teachers were killed at a Texas elementary school Tuesday by a man armed with an assault rifle, the state’s senator suggested that schools would be safer if there was only one way in or out.
The Harris County Sheriff’s Office began investigating the threat on June 27 after a United States Capitol Police Officer reported that a threatening call had been made to Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the solution to school shootings is fewer doorways and more guns. Chris Murphy (D-CT) clashed over energy policy.Stay ConnectedForbes on Facebook.