Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) grilled the boss of United Airlines about his decision to enforce COVID-19 vaccine mandates on all United employees during a meeting of the United States Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on Dec. 15. Cruz praised two Texas-based carriers, American Airlines and Southwest Airlines, calling them “exemplary” over vaccine mandates and not terminating employees who refused to get shots. The senator then turned his attention towards Scott Kirby, the CEO of United Airlines. “United’s behavior on this issue, I have to say, has been deeply disturbing,” Cruz said to Kirby. “Your competitors have said they will stand with their employees, United has not made that same commitment.” “We allocated over $54 billion to keep the American aviation industry strong and healthy,” the senator said. “I spoke with each of you in great length about maintaining our pilots and flight attendants was critically important. “Fast-forward to where …