Senator Ted Cruz

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11,445 appearances 49 recordings 4 series first heard Jan 2025 last heard 16 Sep

Senator Ted Cruz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Verdict with Ted Cruz · MASSIVE Victory for Student-Athletes & Fans as 3/4 of the Senate Votes for the Protect College Sports Act · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

I look, I had uh one of my Senate colleagues who voted for the bill describe the coach of the school and their s i i who who who was talking about how their football team was saying, All right, we gotta stop throwing passes to this receiver because if the receiver gets too many receptions voice-verified

They'll get recruited away and we'll lose them. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

Like like those are perverse incentives. voice-verified

You want everyone's incentives aligned. voice-verified

And and and so I will say as we were voting on the Senate floor, and and by the way, the there were like knockdown drag out fights. voice-verified

It was not clear if we were going to get the votes or not, and I was on the floor like working the votes to to get voice-verified

Look, it depends on the arguments in terms of who they are. voice-verified

And and and you you're trying to make arguments as to why it matters. voice-verified

One of the things I've done is I've talked to a lot of coaches, I've talked to a lot of university presidents, a lot of university chancellors, a lot of university trustees. voice-verified

We've mobilized the community. voice-verified

I talked about the big coalition we built. voice-verified

We told them call your senators. voice-verified

And listen, if you're a senator and you get a call from the chancellor of the biggest university in your state, you get a call from the president, you get a call from the athletic. voice-verified

Director, you get a call from the head coach. voice-verified

You're gonna take that call. voice-verified

I y if you get a call from the regents or the trustees, regents tend to be rich guys. voice-verified

Rich guys write big checks. voice-verified

Rich guys also write big checks to politicians. voice-verified

So when rich guys who write checks to politicians call, politicians take their calls. voice-verified

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