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SlateThe Senate spent this week working to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration, in a major bill tweaking airline policy to ensure that all the planes stop falling apart during flights. But one of the delights for senators over the past several days was watching Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, the bill manager on the GOP side, have to play a pragmatic role rather than screaming in opposition from the sidelines. Cruz, according to the Hill, “has been on the receiving end of numerous jokes from colleagues during weekly Senate GOP luncheons each of the past two weeks.” Cruz himself told the Hill that one moderate member “was having great joy giving me grief” during Wednesday’s party lunch and that he “just laughed and said, ‘I’m not even going to fight back.’ ” It’ll all be worth it. Cruz is one of the only vaguely vulnerable GOP senators up for reelection this year, and now he’ll have a bipartisan bill under his belt to balance his reputation as an annoyer of colleagues.
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