Ted Cruz
Republican · TX · U.S. Senate
Bio
Rafael Edward Cruz is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator from Texas since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, Cruz was the solicitor general of Texas from 2003 to 2008. Since 2025, Cruz has chaired the Senate Commerce Committee.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 13.6 years
- First took office
- 2013 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 53 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 55
- Senate class
- 1 · junior senator
- 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
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
- 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)
Issue profile
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.
On the political map
Ted Cruz (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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.
Do you vote like Cruz?
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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
- Aviation, Space, and Innovation (Ex Officio)Telecommunications and Media (Ex Officio)Consumer Protection, Technology, and Data Privacy (Ex Officio)Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries (Ex Officio)Science, Manufacturing, and Competitiveness (Ex Officio)Surface Transportation, Freight, Pipelines, and Safety (Ex Officio)
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relationscenter · 22 members
- Senate Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 22 members
- Senate Committee on Rules and Administrationcenter · 17 members
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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Trump Totally Bombs His Speech in Front of Artemis II AstronautsPresident Donald Trump flew to Texas Friday to award the Artemis II team with the Congressional Space Medal of Honor—but still managed to make the event all about him. After making the team wait on stage for him for half an hour, the president began his meand…
The New Republic · Yesterday
Clarence Thomas Played the Long Game. He WonAn important new book by Senator Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), Going Further, calls attention anew to the life and career of the single greatest living American, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. For many years after Thomas arrived on the court in the early 1990s, …
Biztoc.com · Yesterday
Trump Dishes On Ted Cruz’s Potential 2028 Presidential AmbitionsPresident Donald Trump gave the Daily Caller his thoughts on Republican Texas Sen. Ted Cruz teasing a 2028 presidential run.
The Daily Caller · August 27, 2026
Trump praises Ted Cruz amid 2028 presidential speculationPresident Donald Trump is weighing in on a potential 2028 presidential run by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, praising his former Republican primary rival as a "very talented guy." Trump was asked by a reporter Thursday, Aug. 27, in the Oval Office, what he thought about…
Biztoc.com · August 27, 2026
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