Story highlights Cruz's comments come as Hurricane Harvey continues to devastate swaths of his home stateBoth Texas Sens. Cruz and John Cornyn the disaster relief act in 2013Washington (CNN) On Monday, Sen. Ted Cruz defended fellow Republicans who voted "nay" on a 2013 Hurricane Sandy relief bill -- calling the legislation a "bill filled with pork." Both Texas Sens. "Every Republican, including Texas Republicans, agreed that hurricane funding is an important and critical role for the federal government," Cruz said. But Cruz added that his concern was that the 2012 bill became "a $50 billion bill filled with pork and unrelated spending that wasn't hurricane relief."

Source: CNN August 28, 2017 19:59 UTC