Official portrait of Ted Cruz
U.S. Senate · Texas

Ted Cruz

RRepublicanIn this seat since January 3, 2013Term ends January 3, 2031

Since the current Congress began on January 3, 2025, Cruz has a recorded vote on 38 laws that passed.

33 Yes · 1 No · 4 Did not vote
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The record in plain language

Of the 118 laws passed since January 3, 2025, 38 came to a recorded vote in the Senate while Cruz is a member. The rest passed the Senate by voice vote or without objection, which records no individual votes.

Cruz votes Yes on the Laken Riley Act on immigration detention; the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax and spending law; the HALT Fentanyl Act; the GENIUS Act on stablecoins (digital tokens pegged to the dollar); the Rescissions Act of 2025, which cancelled about $9 billion in approved spending; the defense policy law for fiscal year 2026; the Secure America Act, a 2026 budget law; and the Russia and Iran sanctions law.

On funding the government, Cruz votes Yes on the March 2025 full-year funding law; the November 2025 law that ended the 43-day shutdown; the January 2026 funding law for science, energy, Interior and the EPA; and the September 2026 funding extension, and No on the February 2026 funding law for a further group of agencies.

Congress cancelled 24 federal rules by recorded vote in the Senate in that time. Cruz votes to cancel 21 and against cancelling 0, and did not vote on 3. The rules Cruz votes to cancel come from: Environmental Protection Agency (6), Interior: Bureau of Land Management (4), Energy (4), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (2), District of Columbia government (1), Treasury: Comptroller of the Currency (1), Interior: National Park Service (1), Treasury: Internal Revenue Service (1) and Interior: Ocean Energy Management (1).

On all 33 Yes votes Cruz votes the same way as most Senate Republicans. On the 1 No vote Cruz votes differently from most of them.

Cruz did not vote on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act; the law that cancels a land agency plan for central Alaska that set aside large areas for conservation and limited development; the law that cancels a land agency plan for federal lands in North Dakota that limited where coal, oil and gas could be leased; and the law that cancels a land agency plan for eastern Montana that ended new federal coal leasing in the Miles City area.

Votes on laws that passed

Public Law 119-75 · Signed February 3, 2026Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2026

Full-year fiscal 2026 funding for a further group of federal agencies.

House 217–214Senate 71–29Votes No

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What this member says about laws and orders

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From this member’s press releases

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Member-requested spending

Confirmed from the official record

Member-requested spending: none found in the 4 laws read so far.

Laws read: Public Law 119-37, Public Law 119-74, Public Law 119-75, Public Law 119-86.

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Campaign money

For the 2026 election cycle, Cruz's campaign reports receiving $10,228,279.58 and reports spending $9,050,182.09, as of June 30, 2026.

Confirmed from the official record
What the filing reports2026 cycleFEC number S2TX00312as of June 30, 20262024 cycleFEC number S2TX00312as of December 31, 2024
Money raised (total receipts)$10,228,279.58$74,050,030.94
Money spent (total disbursements)$9,050,182.09$75,643,604.41
Cash on hand (at the end of the period)$2,964,804.69$1,786,707.20
Debts (owed by the committee)$0.00$0.00

Where it comes from

Reported as received from2026 cycleFEC number S2TX00312as of June 30, 20262024 cycleFEC number S2TX00312as of December 31, 2024
Individuals, itemized$4,447,857.39$37,722,671.61
Individuals, unitemized$3,850,142.00$29,713,051.70
Other political committees$474,800.00$1,262,520.07
Party committees$0.00$5,500.00
The candidate, contributions$0.00$0.00
The candidate, loans$0.00$0.00

Committees

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Where this comes from

We saved our own copy of each official Senate vote file listed here before writing this page. A code beside a file is its fingerprint, a short code that changes if the file's contents change.

Official portraitCongress.gov member directory · saved October 5, 2026 · Courtesy U.S. Senate Historical Office
aea86fee448a353fConfirmed from the official record
Senate roll call 224 of 2026 (Russia and Iran sanctions law)senate.gov · saved October 5, 2026
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Senate roll call 228 of 2026 (September 2026 funding extension)senate.gov · saved October 5, 2026
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Senate roll call 182 of 2026 (21st Century ROAD to Housing Act)senate.gov · saved October 5, 2026
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