WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today visited Amarillo, Lubbock, and Dyess Air Force Base to meet with community leaders and stakeholders in Texas’ agriculture and defense industries.

In Amarillo, Sen. Cruz met with Mayor Paul Harpole followed by a briefing and tour of the Pantex Plant, a staple to our national security and America’s nuclear weapon inventory.

Following his meetings in Amarillo, Sen. Cruz traveled to Lubbock, where he toured Texas Tech University’s U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Lab Center and participated in an agricultural roundtable with the state’s industry leaders.

This afternoon, Sen. Cruz will also visit Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene, where he will be briefed on the base’s ongoing defense missions.

“Texas has a long, proud partnership with our nation’s military, and we are blessed to have some of the finest training facilities in the world,” Sen. Cruz said. “The safety and security of the American people is dependent on the leadership demonstrated at places like the Pantex Plant and Dyess Air Force Base. Additionally, with a dynamic and booming agriculture and livestock industry, our state feeds much of the country and is able to foster extraordinary job creation. Each of these industries requires the freedom to grow and prosper, which has been proven to be difficult under the Obama administration. I look forward to continuing discussions with statewide defense and agriculture leaders so that we can get Washington bureaucrats out of the way and determine how to better meet the needs of hardworking Texans.”

[PHOTO: Sen. Cruz meets with Amarillo Mayor Paul Harpole. Office of Sen. Ted Cruz. 8/11/2016.]

[PHOTO: Sen. Cruz participates in roundtable discussion with Texas agriculture leaders in Lubbock. Office of Sen. Ted Cruz. 8/11/2016.]

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