When Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas got out of his car at the Capitol on Wednesday, he did not to go into the Senate where he works. He was on the House side to join a conservative rally to press their own GOP leaders to use the power of the purse to fight the president on immigration. Since the day Cruz was sworn in almost two years ago, he has proudly been a thorn in House Republican leaders' side -- urging them to put principle before practical politics. Last year the government shut down thanks to a strategy pushed by Cruz to tie defunding Obamacare to funding the government.
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Ted Cruz rallied House conservatives against a proposed plan to avoid a government shutdown
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Cruz was seen as largely responsible for the government shutting down last year
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Cruz has repeatedly rejected that claim, and said it's Democrats who risk causing a shutdown
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