<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareSharedContentClass" style="position: relative !important; "><div class="original-url" style="text-align: center; "><span style="font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; "><b><font size="4">CRUZ: “THE DREAM OF KEEPING POOR PEOPLE FROM SEEING A DOCTOR MUST NEVER DIE”</font></b></span></div><div id="article" class="auto-hyphenated" style="-webkit-hyphens: auto; "><div class="page" style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Palatino, Georgia, Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 1.4; text-align: justify; "><p><img alt="ted-cruz-580.jpeg" width="580" height="387" class="reader-image-large" style="float: none; margin: auto auto 0.75em; max-width: 100%; display: block; " id="5f4cf02c-97eb-4b7b-bc7d-5373a4f5d661" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:BF5786BB-FA46-48DF-AC13-A4D8171D16B4@att.net"></p><p style="font-size: 16px; "><b>WASHINGTON</b>—Acknowledging that the government shutdown was coming to an end, an emotional Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) took to the Senate floor today to make an impassioned speech, telling his colleagues, “The dream of keeping poor people from seeing a doctor must never die.”</p><div><p style="font-size: 16px; ">His eyes welling up with tears, Sen. Cruz said, “I embarked on this crusade with a simple goal: to keep affordable health care out of the reach of ordinary, hard-working Americans. And while this battle was lost, that dream—that precious, cherished dream—will live on.”</p><p style="font-size: 16px; ">Reflecting on the government shutdown and near-default that almost touched off a global financial apocalypse, Sen. Cruz said, “We’ll give it another try in a few weeks.”</p><p style="font-size: 16px; ">Sen. Cruz’s closest ally, Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) also spoke reverently of the shutdown, calling it “the most expensive Civil War reënactment in history.”</p><p style="font-size: 16px; ">“Unfortunately, once again, the wrong side won,” he said.</p><p style="font-size: 16px; ">Over in the House of Representatives, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) congratulated his colleagues on the deal to resolve the shutdown, telling reporters, “This proves that when we work together, we can come up with a totally unsatisfactory solution to a completely unnecessary crisis.”</p><p style="font-size: 16px; ">But the last word belonged to Sen. Cruz, who ended his emotional speech with a quiet benediction: “Goodnight stars. Goodnight air. Goodnight noises everywhere.”</p><p><i> </i></p></div><div><i><br></i></div></div></div></span><span class="Apple-Mail-URLShareUserContentBottomClass" style="line-height: 14px !important; text-align: left !important; "></span></body></html>