Ted Cruz on Spending & Budget

RepublicanTX

Spending & Budget478 votes · 83.2/100 consistent

Fiscal expansionFiscal restraint

1,011 roll calls on this member’s record are tagged Spending & Budget. 478 of them counted toward the score above: 210 toward “Fiscal expansion” and 268 toward “Fiscal restraint”.

The other 533 did not count: 491 were roll calls whose direction on this issue could not be read confidently — mostly procedural motions — and 42 were ones they did not cast a yea or nay on. They are listed below anyway, marked as not scored, because a filtered list of votes is not a voting record.

Date	What was voted on	Voted	Counted as
2013-03-05	To strike supplemental staff funding available only to a limited number of Senators in a time of sequestration.S.Res. 64 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal restraint
2013-02-28	A bill to appropriately limit sequestration, to eliminate tax loopholes, and for other purposes.S. 388 · 113th Congress · On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed	Nay	Fiscal restraint
2013-02-28	A bill to provide for a sequester replacement.S. 16 · 113th Congress · On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed	Nay	Fiscal restraint
2013-02-12	To authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2014 through 2017 for the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, to enhance measures to combat trafficking in persons, and for other purposes.S. 47 · 113th Congress · On the Amendment	Yea	Fiscal expansion
2013-01-31	A bill to ensure the complete and timely payment of the obligations of the United States Government until May 19, 2013, and for other purposes.H.R. 325 · 113th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Nay	Fiscal restraint
2013-01-31	A bill to ensure the complete and timely payment of the obligations of the United States Government until May 19, 2013, and for other purposes.H.R. 325 · 113th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Fiscal expansion
2013-01-31	To prohibit the sale, lease, transfer, retransfer, or delivery of F-16 aircraft, M1 tanks, or certain other defense articles or services to the Government of Egypt.H.R. 325 · 113th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2013-01-31	To protect Social Security benefits and military pay and require that the United States Government prioritize all obligations on the debt held by the public in the event that the debt limit is reached.H.R. 325 · 113th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2013-01-31	To amend title 31, United States Code, to provide for automatic continuing resolutions.H.R. 325 · 113th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Direction not readable
2013-01-31	To require that any debt limit increase be balanced by equal spending cuts over the next decade.H.R. 325 · 113th Congress · On the Motion to Table	Nay	Fiscal restraint
2013-01-28	A bill making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2013, and for other purposes.H.R. 152 · 113th Congress · On Passage of the Bill	Nay	Fiscal restraint

Sorted newest first. “Counted as” is which end of the Fiscal expansion / Fiscal restraint axis the vote moved this member toward, using the direction recorded for this issue on that roll call. Open any row to see the full measure, the tally, and the reason that direction was assigned.