Skip to content
The Quiet Ledger
Republican

Cruz, Ted

Senate · Texas · C001098Sign in to watch / set alerts
congress
Legislative activity across Congressesfactual — not a ranking
CongressSponsoredCosponsoredRecorded votesParticipation
119th · current112161394%
118th142377——
117th103339——
116th78267——
115th66225——
Descriptive counts per Congress — sponsored/cosponsored measures, recorded votes cast, and participation (votes cast ÷ recorded, shown only where the denominator is ingested). This is not an effectiveness score, alignment, or rank. Recorded votes reflect ingested chambers (House member casts across the supported range; Senate member casts are not linked — see Coverage).
Service history5 Congresses of supported coverage
CongressChamberStateDistrictParty
119th · currentSenateTexas—Republican
118thSenateTexas—Republican
117thSenateTexas—Republican
116thSenateTexas—Republican
115thSenateTexas—Republican
Congress-specific facts from the authoritative source; current values are not applied retroactively.
Legislative activity · 115th Congress · historical · Senate
Participation
—
0/0 cast
Sponsored
66
bills
Cosponsored
225
measures
Sponsored · 115th66
—A bill to provide tax relief related to Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria.s 1892—Health Care Choice Act of 2017s 2021—Reciprocity Ensures Streamlined Use of Lifesaving Treatments Act of 2017s 2022—State Refugee Security Act of 2017s 211—Educational Freedom Accounts Acts 2163—Strengthening Oversight of Iran's Access to Finance Acts 2167—National Timing Resilience and Security Act of 2017s 2220—Nicaraguan Investment Conditionality Act (NICA) of 2017s 2265—A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the individual tax rates in effect for taxable years 2018 through 2025.s 2281—VET Protection Act of 2017s 2288—A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the individual tax rates in effect for taxable years 2018 through 2025.s 2291—A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to make permanent the individual tax provisions of the tax reform law, and for other purposes.s 2687—Capital Gains Inflation Relief Act of 2018s 2688—SAVES Acts 2778—Stop Higher Education Espionage and Theft Act of 2018s 2903—A bill to require a report on imprisonment of political prisoners in China.s 2985—Protect Kids and Parents Acts 3091—Student Empowerment Acts 3102—North Texas Water Supply Security Act of 2018s 3202—E-FRONTIER Acts 3255—Sanctioning the Use of Civilians as Defenseless Shields Acts 3257—Space Frontier Act of 2019s 3277—Protect Charities and Houses of Worship Acts 3317—Hidden Figures Way Designation Acts 3370—School Security Enhancement Acts 3506—Equal Treatment of Public Servants Act of 2018s 3526—Retirement Freedom Acts 3560—Expatriate Terrorist Acts 361—Repeal CFPB Acts 370—SuperPAC Elimination Act of 2018s 3735
Cosponsored · 115th225
—Taiwan Travel Acts 1051—Thin Blue Line Acts 1085—Jerusalem Embassy and Recognition Acts 11—North Korean Human Rights Reauthorization Act of 2017s 1118—Patient Access to Higher Quality Health Care Act of 2017s 1133—Back the Blue Act of 2017s 1134—Veterans' Health Care Integrity Act of 2017s 1163—Sunshine for Regulatory Decrees and Settlements Act of 2017s 119—Advancing America's Missile Defense Act of 2017s 1196—Due Process Guarantee Acts 1216—Kari's Law Act of 2017s 123—Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Acts 1290—Human Trafficking Accountability Acts 1311—Public-Private Partnership Advisory Council to End Human Trafficking Acts 1312—FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017s 139—Protecting the Second Amendment Acts 1397—SHUSH Acts 1505—North Korean Enablers Accountability Act of 2017s 1562—Separation of Powers Restoration Act of 2017s 1577—Otto Warmbier Banking Restrictions Involving North Korea Act of 2017s 1591—Protecting American Jobs Acts 1594—Hizballah International Financing Prevention Amendments Act of 2018s 1595—Daniel Webster Congressional Clerkship Act of 2017s 1604—Bob Dole Congressional Gold Medal Acts 1616—Javier Vega, Jr. Memorial Act of 2017s 1617—RBI Acts 1649—Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act of 2017s 1693—Taylor Force Acts 1697—Combating BDS Act of 2017s 170—CBO Show Your Work Acts 1746
Campaign financefederal · source: FEC
Campaign-finance identity unavailable — no FEC candidate could be linked to this member with deterministic authoritative evidence. We do not guess identity from names.

The Quiet Ledger grades legislation, not lawmakers. This page reports factual legislative activity by Congress; it does not assign the member an overall score, alignment, or rank, and never combines Congresses into a lifetime rating.