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U.S. Senator · Texas
Ted Cruz
RepublicanState R+6119th Congress
Typical swing score30#75 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Ted Cruz’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office167 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s state, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Democrats · 1 signal
- StrongBacks 6 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 6 of the 890 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: S. 237, S. 260, S. 306, S. 315, S. 3041 and 1 more.
Keeps them with Republicans · 1 signal
- MediumVotes with Senate RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.781 (party median +0.558; rank 48 of 53 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 96 (avg 88); LCV 0 (avg 3).
Bill-specific inputsVotes on similar past bills and committee seats vary by bill, so they appear in the swing-v3 scores below rather than here.
Term and election
From the congress-legislators dataset- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2031
- Senate class
- Class 1
- Seniority
- Junior senator
- Next election
- November 5, 2030
- Years in office
- 13.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and TransportationChairmanMajority · 1st in seniority
- Subcommittee on Aviation, Space, and InnovationEx Officio
- Subcommittee on Telecommunications and MediaEx Officio
- Subcommittee on Consumer Protection, Technology, and Data PrivacyEx Officio
- Subcommittee on Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Cruz← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.781 is 0.22 to the right of the Senate Republican median (+0.558).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the Senate Republican average- 119th Congress96Senate Republican average: 88 (n=53)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to it| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| S. 5521Ukrainian Adjustment Act of 2026Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 37
| Middle |
| S. 5639Portal for Appraisal Licensing Act of 2026Summary on Congress.gov |