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Good Evening, Every once and awhile we have some good news, and the good news is the disastrous Senate border deal was blocked this week on the Senate floor. My views on this bill have not been ambiguous. It is a terrible piece of legislation that does absolutely nothing to secure our southern border, but rather props Democrats up on a pedestal to keep manufacturing this crisis. Texans who are facing the brunt of Biden’s open borders want real change and action, but this administration has...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, introduced the Keeping International Land Ports of Entry Open Act to prohibit Joe Biden from closing commercial ports of entry and diverting CBP staff from facilitating lawful commerce to processing illegal aliens. Upon introducing the bill, Sen. Cruz said, “Joe Biden is harming American farmers, ranchers, manufacturers, truckers, and consumers by prioritizing...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), ranking member on the Subcommittee on the Constitution, alongside John Kennedy (R-La.), ranking member on the Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action, and Federal Rights sent a letter to the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit regarding facially discriminatory standing orders issued by three judges in the Southern District of Illinois. In the letter, the senators addressed the nearly identical standing orders...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) today introduced the Protecting Innovation in Investment Act to protect Americans’ affordable access to financial markets. In July 2023, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed a wide-ranging rule that would strongly deter the use of technology in investing, just as innovation has opened the door to more accessible and affordable options for Americans. The rule...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rand Paul, M.D. (R-Ky.), along with several of their Republican colleagues in the Senate, sent a letter to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), William J. Burns, following up on their prior request for information related to whistleblower allegations disclosed by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic and House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on the CIA’s investigation into the origins of...

Good Evening, Big Tech is putting their profits over the wellbeing of our children, and I’ve had enough of their misuse of social media platforms to exploit children online. This week, I called out Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on his role in enabling child sex predators to access Instagram content exploiting vulnerable children online who have been sexually abused. In June of 2023, a Wall Street Journal report revealed Instagram’s algorithm was helping pedophiles access posts promoting child sexual...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced a disapproval resolution under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) today in an effort to push back against the U.S. Department of Energy’s final rule on gas furnace efficiency standards. The Biden administration’s rule will go into effect on February 16, 2024, forcing manufacturers to sell only furnaces that convert at least 95% of fuel into heat. The rule will effectively ban all non-condensing furnace models, coercing a majority of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), along with U.S. Representative Tim Walberg (R-Mich.) led a bicameral coalition of their colleagues in sending a letter calling on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) Deputy Administrator, Sophie Shulman, to rescind the Biden Administration’s proposed Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards for passenger cars and light-duty trucks. The proposed standards, which do not comply with federal law,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-Pa.) today announced his support for legislation to limit children's access to social media at school. The Eyes on the Board Act, which U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced in October 2023, would require schools receiving federal broadband funding through the E-Rate program to block access on subsidized services, devices, and networks. “I’m proud to join Sen. Fetterman in leading this bipartisan effort to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, condemned last night’s Iranian drone attack that left multiple U.S. soldiers dead and dozens injured. Sen. Cruz said, “Heidi and I are praying for the families of the American warriors who were killed this weekend, and for the speedy and full recovery of the dozens who were injured. “Joe Biden and Biden administration officials made a Day 1 decision not just to appease the Iranian regime, but...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Republicans led by Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today sent a letter to Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson demanding answers regarding the recent development that O’Hare International Airport and Midway International Airport are being used to house illegal aliens. The Senators argue using airports and airport resources to house aliens misuses billions of dollars of federal taxpayer investment in a robust national airport system. The Senators...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) led 25 Republican colleagues in blasting the Biden administration for pausing all pending non-Free Trade Agreement countries (FTA) export permit applications at the behest of the radical climate lobby. The letter to President Biden and Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm comes in response to the administration’s announcement to suddenly re-evaluate the criteria to approve permits for liquified natural...

Good Evening, School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st Century. For over a decade, I’ve been the leading the fight for school choice in the U.S. Senate. I firmly believe that every single child deserves access to an exceptional education regardless of their zip code, race, ethnicity, or socio-economic status. I was proud to sign-on to the resolution designating January 21st – January 27th, 2024, as National School Choice Week because building a stronger America starts in our K-12...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined the co-chairs of the Congressional School Choice Caucus, Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Rep. John Moolenaar (R-Mich.), in introducing a resolution designating January 21st – January 27th, 2024, as National School Choice Week. Upon joining the resolution, Sen. Cruz said, “For over a decade, I have been the leading advocate for school choice in the U.S. Senate because I firmly believe that school choice is the civil-rights issue of the 21st...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) introduced the bipartisan and bicameral Scheduling for Community Health and Easy Data to Understand for Legislators to Evaluate Services (SCHEDULES) Act. The bill would require the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to establish a comprehensive standard for timing between referrals and appointments at VA facilities and to submit a report with respect to that standard. This legislation is based on...

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Good Evening, As a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the ranking member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, this week I led 177 of my colleagues in Congress, alongside House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.), in filing a bicameral Supreme Court amicus brief in the case Donald J. Trump v. Norma Anderson, et al. The Colorado Supreme Court’s decision in this case to keep Donald Trump off the ballot in Colorado wrongfully sidestepped the proper, Constitutionally-mandated role of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) introduced new legislation – The Distribution Transformer Efficiency & Supply Chain Reliability Act of 2024 – that would bolster the U.S. transformer supply chain, an important part of electricity grids, by setting new realistic energy efficiency standards that help stabilize domestic transformer manufacturing to meet increasing demand without exacerbating existing supply chains or undermining American...

WASHINGTON, DC– U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), ranking member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, and U.S. Representative Henry Cuellar (D-Texas) this week led a bipartisan coalition of federal lawmakers representing Texas communities in sending a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging him to quickly implement a key provision they included in the recently enacted 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that advances several international bridge...