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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and nine of theirSenate colleagues sent a letter to Chairman Phillips and Commissioners urging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to investigate the actions of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, regarding its commitments to the Commission and its influence on utility operations. The letter follows a motion filed at FERC by a coalition of 17 states urging federal energy regulators to review BlackRock Inc's...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today praised the Senate’s passage of his bipartisan legislation to help combat the rise in illicit use of the dangerous animal tranquilizer xylazine, or tranq. The Testing, Rapid Analysis, and Narcotic Quality (TRANQ) Research Act, which Sen. Cruz introduced with Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to take steps to enhance understanding of tranq...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced a bill to move up the date by which the position of Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) becomes a Senate-approved position. Currently, the CDC Director is directly appointed by the president without Senate confirmation, but the position is scheduled to become a Senate-confirmed position starting in January 2025. Sen. Cruz’s bill, the CDC Accountability Act, would make this position Senate...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.) reintroduced Kate’s Law, bicameral legislation which was first introduced in July 2015. The legislation is named in memory of Kate Steinle, a 32-year-old woman tragically shot and killed by an illegal alien who had several felony convictions and had been deported from the United States five times. This bill would amend federal law to impose a mandatory minimum sentence of five years for any person who has...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Ranking Member John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) are leading a coalition of Senate Republican committee ranking members in sounding the alarm over an attempt by the White House to hijack the rulemaking process to advance left-wing policy goals that have been rejected by Congress. In a letter to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), the...

PERRYTON, Texas – Yesterday, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) visited Perryton, Texas to be with the community in the aftermath of the tornado there.  After visiting Perryton, helping clean up, speaking with Perryton residents, and participating in a brief with local and state officials, Ted Cruz said, “The city of Perryton and its people are resilient and strong. It’s during these times that we must all come together to help out our fellow Texans. Yesterday, we joined...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) issued the following statement on House passage of the Changing Age-Determined Eligibility to Student Incentive Payments (CADETS) Act, bipartisan legislation he introduced with Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.). The bill extends financial assistance to older cadets who attend the Texas A&M Maritime Academy, or one of the other five state maritime academies, and who commit to a post-graduation service...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a new 13-page memo to the beer industry’s self-regulatory body, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) details how Bud Light’s sponsorship of Dylan Mulvaney violated industry standards that prohibit marketing to underage individuals. The memo, which was submitted on Wednesday to the Beer Institute’s Code Compliance Review Board (CCRB), reveals new evidence and examples of how Mulvaney’s persona is meant to appeal to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced the U.S. Congressman Sam Johnson Memorial VA Clinic Act, which would rename the Veterans Affairs clinic in Plano, Texas, to honor the late Congressman Sam Johnson’s legacy of selfless service: Sen. Cruz. said, “Congressman Sam Johnson was a legendary figure who served Texas in Congress for nearly two decades. During his 29-year career in the United States Air Force, Colonel Johnson...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike. Braun (R-Ind.) reintroduced legislation today to eliminate the Office of Financial Research, a stark example of redundancy and unaccountability within the Treasury Department. Sen. Cruz previously introduced this bill in 2019 and 2021. About the bill, Sen. Cruz said, “We need to rein in bureaucratic overreach by the federal government. By eliminating useless and unaccountable offices like the Office of Financial Research, we...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, praised the Senate’s unanimous passage of bipartisan legislation he authored to rename the street outside of the Cuban embassy in Washington, D.C. as “Oswaldo Payá Way” after the Cuban dissident leader who was assassinated by Cuba’s communist regime. Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Ben Cardin...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas), today sent a letter to President Biden, urging him to immediately nominate a “serious and well-qualified person with substantial aviation experience” to serve as Federal Aviation Administration administrator. Sen. Cruz wrote: “The Federal Aviation Administration (“FAA”) has been operating without a Senate-confirmed Administrator for fifteen months. Given the critical role that...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) along with Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) released a joint statement after the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights released its findings in the suspicious death of Cuban pro-freedom leader Oswaldo Payá. The senators said, “At last, we have a clear verdict on what was suspected all along. After...

 

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In case you missed it, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) published a Fox News op-ed on June 9th highlighting the need for Congress to swiftly pass their AM for Every Vehicle Act. This bipartisan and bicameral legislation would direct federal regulators to require automakers to maintain AM broadcast radio in their new vehicles at no additional charge to consumers. They introduced this bill in response to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced legislation that will prevent companies that manage investment funds held in federal employee retirement accounts from using those holdings to vote in corporate shareholder meetings to force leftist Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies onto private sector businesses. Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) is co-sponsoring the bill in the Senate. Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.)...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) and several of their Senate colleagues introduced legislation to overturn the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ‘Good Neighbor’ rule through a Congressional Review Act (CRA) joint resolution of disapproval. The rule will place severe restrictions on state emissions based on a questionable methodology that assigns fault to “upwind” states for other “downwind” state emissions. The EPA’s rule comes after years of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In his opening statement for the record of today’s “Protecting Consumers from Junk Fees” subcommittee hearing, Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) said companies, especially ticket sellers, should be transparent and disclose additional fees up front. He also urged his colleagues to support the TICKET Act, legislation he introduced with Chairwoman Maria Cantwell (D-Wash) that would require all event ticket sellers to display the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) and 45 of their colleagues in a bipartisan letter to Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Jennifer Granholm, raising their concern about a proposed rule by the DOE that purports to increase efficiency standards on distribution transformers—critical electric grid components. The proposed rule, Energy Conservation Program: Energy Conservation Standards for Distribution Transformers, would, in effect, require...