A little ditty about Ted and Dianne Ted Cruz and Dianne Feinstein team up to tackle the migrant family crisis. By BURGESS EVERETT
06/22/2018 05:07 AM EDT Two months after Ted Cruz arrived in the Senate in 2013, he tried to quiz veteran Dianne Feinstein about her understanding of constitutional law during a tense Judiciary Committee hearing on an assault weapons ban she had authored.
Pressed by the freshman whippersnapper about whether Congress could regulate books in the same way Feinstein wanted to regulate guns, the Stanford-educated California Democrat delivered a memorable zinger in response: “I am not a sixth-grader.â€
Five years later, the once-antagonistic Texan and his California colleague are talking daily. The topic now isn’t guns but how to solve the crisis of migrant families separated on the border. And according to people who’ve witnessed their interactions, the two are getting along quite well.
“I think he’s very constructive,†Feinstein beamed in an interview. “And I’m delighted.â€
“She certainly has expressed a strong and, I hope, sincere interest,†Cruz replied. “So we’re working together on legislation that both conferences can support.â€
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/22/cruz-feinstein-immigration-663319