“In 2013, under a Democratic Senate, "a majority of the Senate voted in favor of" gun-related legislation sponsored by Republican Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ted Cruz, “but the Democrats filibustered it.”
What PolitiFact found
Democrats did set a supermajority threshold, but only after Republicans pledged to filibuster the underlying bill, and Republicans unanimously agreed to the voting plan.
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In short
Ted Cruz (U.S. Senator, R-Texas) made this claim around 26 May 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 27 May 2022, 1 day later. Its rating was “Half True”.
Ted Cruz has 24 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 10 of them false or fake, 10 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
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