Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) told the Washington Post that he would “push hard for a Republican-led Senate to be as conservative and confrontational as the Republican-led House.”
Cruz said the first order of business should be a series of hearings on President Obama, “looking at the abuse of power, the executive abuse, the regulatory abuse, the lawlessness that sadly has pervaded this administration.”


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