- Sat Jul 25, 2015 5:54 pm
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Texas senator and Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz accused his own Senate majority leader of being a liar from the Senate floor Friday, and said Republicans in charge of both houses of Congress has not changed things “one iota” because both parties serve the “Washington cartel.”
Cruz began his highly charged speech after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) added the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank to the highway-funding bill and prevented senators from adding more amendments.
“I sat in my office, I told my staff, the majority leader looked me in the eye and looked 54 Republicans in the eye,” Cruz said. “I cannot believe he would tell a flat-out lie, and I voted on those assurances that he made to each and every one of us. What we just saw today was an absolute demonstration that not only what he told every Republican senator, but what he told the press over and over and over again, was a simple lie.”
Cruz began his highly charged speech after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) added the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank to the highway-funding bill and prevented senators from adding more amendments.
“I sat in my office, I told my staff, the majority leader looked me in the eye and looked 54 Republicans in the eye,” Cruz said. “I cannot believe he would tell a flat-out lie, and I voted on those assurances that he made to each and every one of us. What we just saw today was an absolute demonstration that not only what he told every Republican senator, but what he told the press over and over and over again, was a simple lie.”
