Cruz Colleague Slams Senator's Immigration Tactics
Michael McCaul of Texas sees 2015 as the time to battle the president's executive order, not now.
Senator Ted Cruz, a Republican from Texas, has a conversation following a Bloomberg Television interview in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014.
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Senator Ted Cruz is hurting his own cause, a prominent fellow Texas Republican said Thursday, calling the firebrand freshman "utterly counterproductive" in pushing his party to oppose a spending bill that does not block President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration.
"We were elected to govern," House Homeland Security Chairman Michael McCaul told a gathering of Bloomberg reporters and editors. "If we blow it by not governing, then shame on us."