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Ted Cruz holding up all State Department nominees over Russian pipeline
Thirteen nominees approved by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are in indefinite limbo.
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Teddy is a treasonous SOB that needs to be removed from the Senate. I guess he is still pissed that his holiness, trump lost in 2020?