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R  ·  SEN  ·  Texas Chair · Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee
25%
spoke · 2 of 8 transcribed hearings
7min
speaking time on the record
10
speaking turns
1,160
words on the record

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Cruz, Ted. When Gustavo Petro was elected, I went down to the Senate floor to outline the threats that he posed to American national security interests, many of which were subsequently confirmed. Colombia has long been one of America's key security partners in Latin America, and renewed ties with Israel would ...

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Hearings to examine protecting Americans from global scam operations, focusing on assessing the United States response.
Aug 06, 2026·11:00 AM ·1h 20m ·9 speakers
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Hearings to examine the nominations of Anna St. John, of Louisiana, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fifth Circuit, Gregory Carl Cook, to be United States District Judge for the Northern District of Alabama, D. Adam Candeub, of the District of Columbia, to be an Assistant Attorney General, Department of Justice, and John Peter Cronan, of New York, and Jason Manion, of Ohio, each to be a Member of the United States Sentencing Commission.
Aug 05, 2026·10:15 AM ·2h 26m ·19 speakers
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To receive a closed briefing update on the war in Sudan.
Aug 05, 2026·3:00 PM
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Business meeting to markup S.737, to require certain interactive computer services to adopt and operate technology verification measures to ensure that users of the platform are not minors, S.1748, to protect the safety of children on the internet, S.4199, to require entities that make artificial intelligence chatbots available to minors to implement certain safe design features, S.4407, to require the creation of family accounts for children to be able to use artificial intelligence chatbots, to require verifiable parental consent for teens using artificial intelligence chatbots, S.5171, to require a study of AI-enabled toys and development of a joint action plan regarding the marketing and sale of AI-enabled toys, and a promotion list in the Coast Guard.
Aug 05, 2026·10:00 AM
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● SPOKEHearings to examine the nominations of Peter McCoy, of South Carolina, to be Ambassador to Montenegro, Daniel Travis, of California, a Career Member of the Senior Foreign Service, Class of Counselor, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Sierra Leone, and Nathaniel Morris, of Kentucky, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Colombia, all of the Department of State.
Aug 05, 2026·10:00 AM ·1h 20m ·15 speakers
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Hearings to examine the Muslim brotherhood network in America.
Aug 05, 2026·2:30 PM ·2h 24m ·23 speakers
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Hearings to examine data and profit, focusing on the consumer cost of AI surveillance pricing.
Aug 04, 2026·2:30 PM ·2h 17m ·23 speakers
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Hearings to examine prescribing sunshine, focusing on how competition and transparency lowers prescription drug costs.
Aug 04, 2026·10:15 AM ·2h 17m ·15 speakers
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Business meeting to consider the nomination of Todd Blanche, of Florida, to be Attorney General.
Aug 04, 2026·9:00 AM ·2h 17m ·16 speakers
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● SPOKEHearings to examine the nominations of Sarah B. Rogers, of New York, to be Chief Executive Officer of the United States Agency for Global Media, Rebekah Jurata, of California, to be United States Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund, and Jennifer Johnson-Carroll, of Florida, to be Ambassador to the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Department of State.
Jul 30, 2026·10:30 AM ·1h 39m ·14 speakers
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