senators from both political parties for "swiftly passing this legislation and sending it to the White House". Committee assignments In his first two years in the Senate, Cruz attended 17 of 50 public Armed Services Committee hearings, 3 of 25 Commerce Committee hearings, and 4 of the 12 Judiciary Committee hearings, and he missed 21 of 135 roll call votes during the first three months of 2015. Current Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Aviation Safety, Operations, and Innovation (Ranking) Subcommittee on Communications, Media, and Broadband Subcommittee on Oceans, Fisheries, Climate Change, and Manufacturing Subcommittee on Space and Science Committee on Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy Subcommittee on Near East, South Asia, Central Asia, and Counterterrorism Subcommittee on State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Transnational Crime, Civilian Security, Democracy, Human Rights, and Global Women's Issues Committee on Rules and Administration Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Criminal Justice and Counterterrorism Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety Subcommittee on the Constitution (Ranking) Joint Economic Committee Previous Committee on Armed Services (2013–2019) Special Committee on Aging (2013–2015) Comments on President Obama In a November 2014 Senate speech, Cruz accused President Obama of being "openly desirous to destroy the Constitution and this Republic". In the same speech, Cruz invoked the speeches of the ancient Roman senator Cicero against Catiline to denounce Obama's planned executive actions on immigration reform. Classics Professor Jesse Weiner, writing in The Atlantic, said that Cruz's analogy was "deeply disquieting" because "In casting Obama in the role of Catiline, Cruz unsubtly suggests that the sitting president was not lawfully elected and is the perpetrator of a violent insurrection to overthrow the government ... In effect, he accuses the president of high treason. Regardless of one's views on immigration reform and the Obama administration at large, this is dangerous rhetoric." Cruz has repeatedly said that the 2015 international nuclear agreement with Iran "will make the Obama administration the world's leading financier of radical Islamic terrorism". In response, Obama called Cruz's statements an example of "outrageous attacks" from Republican critics that crossed the line of responsible discourse: "We've had a sitting senator, who also happens to be running for President, suggest that I'm the leading state sponsor of terrorism. Maybe this is just