Sen. Ted Cruz Rafael (Ted) Edward CruzCornyn less popular than Cruz in Texas: poll Trump unleashing digital juggernaut ahead of 2020 Inviting Kim Jong Un to Washington MORE (R-Texas) on Tuesday night declared that the "era of Obama lawlessness is over" as Republicans seized control of the Senate.

during a speech in Austin. "If and when we retake the majority nationally, it will be incumbent on Republicans to lead. To stand up with a bold positive, optimistic agenda to turn this country around, to bring back jobs and growth and opportunity." “The American people have risen up and frankly, at the national level, they have given Republicans another chance," he said. "If and when we retake the majority nationally, it will be incumbent on Republicans to lead. To stand up with a bold positive, optimistic agenda to turn this country around, to bring back jobs and growth and opportunity."

Cruz, who is seen as a likely presidential contender in 2016, offered up a laundry list of conservative goals for the next Congress.

He called for tax and regulatory reform, an end to "amnesty" for illegal immigrants and protection for religious liberty and gun rights.

The senator emphatically called for Republicans to "do everything humanly possible to repeal ObamaCare."