Republicans are ripping Texas Senator Ted Cruz for inadvertently helping the Obama administration push through the controversial nominations of a number of key foreign policy nominees, including Tony Blinken for deputy secretary of state and Frank Rose for assistant secretary for verification and compliance, a key arms control post.
Those nominations have long been opposed by hawkish Republicans and faced a number of procedural hurdles to confirmation. But this weekend, Cruz bucked his own party leadership and kept the Senate in session for a rare Saturday workday in order to protest the president’s executive action on immigration. Cruz, a Tea party …read more
Source: Foreign Policy
