New Delhi, Oct. 1 -- Texas Republican Ted Cruz has made an embarrassing gaffe at the Senate hearing when he called on his fellow lawmakers to come together and stop attacks on pedophiles.

He made the statement and immediately moved on to discuss the deployment of the National Guard in Washington, DC without correcting himself.

Ted Cruz was delivering a passionate speech on achieving a "bipartisan agreement" on crime when he stumbled.

"How about we all come together and say, 'let's stop murders?'

"How about we all come together and say 'let's stop rape?'

Then he said, "How about we all come together and say 'let's stop attacking pedophiles.'"

As the Republican made the comments, hundreds of netizens took to the social media to slam h...