世界上最有权势的100人V：40-49岁权势人物

U.S. Senator
美国参议员

What makes him powerful: In a short time Ted Cruz went from being the GOP's ultimate conservative purist to one of the most despised men in the U.S. Senate, provoking the federal government shutdown last year. He staged a 21-hour faux filibuster to defund Obamacare. He failed then, but recently had his bill to bar Iran's U.N. envoy from entering the U.S. pass in the Senate, a tidy win for the Texas freshman minority senator.
权势所在：很短的时间里，泰德·克鲁兹就从共和党终极保守党员变成了国会里最受人鄙视的人，煽动了去年美国政府的关门。他上演了21小时阻碍奥巴马医保议案出资的闹剧。虽然失败，但是最近他在参议院提交了阻止伊朗驻联合国大使进入美国的议案，对于这个年轻的堪萨斯州来的少数党参议员来讲，这次议案是个完胜。