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Ted Cruz: “I'm going to be introducing legislation, jawboning…”

Featuring: Ted Cruz, Republican | U.S. Senate, Texas

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Ted Cruz says government shutdown inflicting pain on federal workers "for no point whatsoever"

Published | Video Starts at 07:23

But I don't believe the government should be forcing, forcing people to be censored. And so I spoke out loudly against it and thankfully they reversed course. I'll tell you, as chairman of the Commerce Committee, I'm going to be introducing legislation, jawboning legislation that makes it illegal for the federal government to pressure private sector actors to censor people. regardless of which party is in power. And I've enjoyed all these Democrats that are now saying they support free speech. (07:23–07:32)

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Asserts intention to introduce legislation against government pressure on private sector censorship.

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