June 11, 2013:  Clear, positive, and constructive, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) speaks on the Senate floor in opposition to the 1076 pages of Gang-of-Eight immigration bill as it is currently written.

As the Obamacare bill did for Kathleen Sebelius, the Gang-of-Eight bill grants enormous discretionary authority to Janet Napolitano to grant waivers and exceptions without approval or review by Congress.  That makes this bill yet another abdication of Congress’ Constitutional authority via a bill s...

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In a May 21 Senate hearing, John McCain, Carl Levin, and assorted other Senators conducted a modern-day inquisition on executives from Apple, Inc. In that so-called “hearing”, they publicly berated the executives for making a handsome profit overseas and legally leaving it there rather than voluntarily bringing it back to the US for a do-it-yourself mugging at the world’s highest corporate tax rate.

Only Rand Paul, present at the hearing, called the whole session for what it wa...

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