Ted Cruz

Republican · TX · U.S. Senate

Bio

Rafael Edward Cruz is a Canadian-American politician and attorney serving since 2013 as the junior United States Senator from Texas. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2003 to 2008 as the third Solicitor General of Texas. He has been described as a movement conservative, a social conservative, and a constitutional conservative with libertarian leanings. Cruz has chaired the Senate Commerce Committee since 2025.

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Record of service

In office: 13.7 years
First took office: 2013 (3 terms)
Seniority: 53 of 100 by time served
Age: 55
Senate class: 1 · junior senator

District offices

Austin, TX · 512-916-5834
Dallas, TX · 214-599-8749
Houston, TX · 713-718-3057
McAllen, TX · 956-686-7339
San Antonio, TX · 210-340-2885
Tyler, TX · 903-593-5130

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2018

$49k

2019

$1.2M

2020

$1.4M

2021

$3.8M

2022

$3.3M

2023

$4.0M

2024

$5.8M

2025

$6.4M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $4.2M – $15.0M
Liabilities: $1.1M – $5.3M
Net worth: −$1.1M – $13.8M
Since 2018: +$6.3M

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.41

Healthcare

R+0.49

Immigration & Border

R+0.81

Guns

R+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.90

Environment & Energy

R+0.85

Crime & Policing

R+0.68

Defense & Veterans

R+0.74

Economy & Labor

R+0.87

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.80

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.52

Education

R+1.00

Government & Democracy

R+0.69

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+0.91

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Ted Cruz's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

91%Closest

62%

30%

20%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

16%

Communist Party USA

15%

On the political map

Ted Cruz (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Cruzsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Committees

Most and least aligned members

Treating Cruz's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.