{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-cruz-opposes-electoral-count-reform-act-for-reducing-congressional-ability-to-address-voter-fraud", "Sen. Cruz Opposes Electoral Count Reform Act for Reducing Congressional Ability to Address Voter Fraud", "2022-09-27", "2022", "2022-09", "Republican", "Senate", "TX", "Ted Cruz", "C001098", "www.cruz.senate.gov", "cruz", "https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Rules Committee, voted against the Electoral Count Reform Act today during a committee mark-up and gave the following remarks:\n\n\u201cThis bill is a bad bill. \u2026 It\u2019s bad policy and it\u2019s bad for democracy. There are serious constitutional questions in the bill. The text of the Constitution, Article Two says, \u2018Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors.\u201d This bill is Congress trying to intrude on the authority of the state legislatures to do that. But it\u2019s also exceptionally bad policy.\n\n\u2026\n\n\u201cWe know that Democrats aren\u2019t opposed to objecting to elections and presidential electors. We know that because Democrats objected in 1969. And then they objected again in 2001. Then they objected again in 2005. And then they objected again in 2017. So Democrats have a long history of going up and objecting to electors.\n\n\u2026\n\n\u201cWe also know that the Democrats are hell bent on federalizing elections. And this bill takes a significant step down that road of putting the federal government in charge of elections. That has been a top Democrat priority for some time.\n\n\u2026\n\n\u201cWhat this bill does is decreases the ability of Congress to address instances of fraud when it occurs, and I believe Congress has a responsibility to do that.\n\n\u2026\n\n\u201cI don\u2019t believe senators from this side of the aisle should be supporting a bill that enhances the federalization of elections and reduces the ability of Congress to respond to the very serious problem of voter fraud. I think this bill does that, and so I intend to oppose it.\u201d\n\nListen to Sen. Cruz\u2019s full remarks here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:08:33Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.cruz.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/sen-cruz-opposes-electoral-count-reform-act-for-reducing-congressional-ability-to-address-voter-fraud"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.6881658919155598, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}