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WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, this week at a full committee hearing focused on the challenges of universal injunctions, highlighted the disparity between universal injunctions filed during the eight years of the Obama administration and the past three years of the Trump administration, discrediting criticisms from the Left that the Supreme Court is lifting too many injunctions. Pointing to a handful of activist district court...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Aviation and Space, today announced he will convene a hearing on the role commercial air travel plays in both spreading and containing coronavirus, and what Congress can do to prevent further outbreaks. "As more countries are affected by this deadly disease and public concern continues to mount, Americans want confidence in the government's response to this health crisis. According to the latest reports, the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, issued the following statement after Senate Democrats voted against the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act and the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, two pieces of common-sense pieces of legislation to restore the fundamental rights of unborn and newborn babies: "Today, Democrats had an opportunity to stand on the side of science, to stand on the side of reason, and to stand on the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced new legislation that would impose sanctions against Lebanese officials who are involved in the unlawful detainment, arrest or abuse of any United States citizen in Lebanon. The senators' legislation - the Zero Tolerance for Unlawful Detentions of U.S. Citizens in Lebanon Act (Zero Tolerance Act) - comes in response to Lebanese officials' refusal to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement in response to the decision by the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) to fully lift the suspension of countermeasures against Iran: "The catastrophic Obama Iran nuclear deal reconnected Iran to the global financial system while also flooding the Ayatollahs with hundreds of billions of dollars, gifting them everything they needed to launder vast sums of money...

IRVING, Texas - This week, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) participated in a roundtable lunch with members of the Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce to discuss the coronavirus outbreak as well as the booming Texas economy. Following the roundtable, Sen. Cruz visited with WFAA's Teresa Woodard, before appearing on the Chris Salcedo Show and the Joe Pags Show. During his sit-down interview with Teresa Woodard, Sen. Cruz discussed his efforts in the Senate to help contain the coronavirus and...

DALLAS, Texas – U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and the rest of the Democratic Party have officially declared war on America’s booming, blue-collar economy. How, you may ask? Both Sen. Sanders and Rep. Ocasio-Cortez have officially introduced bills that ban all fracking. What you may not know, is that fracking has resulted in cleaner energy alternatives and lower carbon emissions. WATCH: Democrats Declare War on America’s Blue-Collar...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement in response to the publication by the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of its database listing companies operating in Israeli controlled territories: "The United Nations has descended to a new antisemitic low. This database of companies operating in Israeli-controlled territories is meant to facilitate boycotts of Israeli Jews. It...

Washington, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) introduced the Financial Defense of Industrial Contractors (FDIC) Act, which would combat today's political discrimination by some of the largest banks operating in the United States against federal contractors, including those which operate facilities on behalf of the Immigration Customs and Enforcement Agency (ICE). A one pager of the bill is available...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced the Taiwan Symbols of Sovereignty (Taiwan SOS) Act, which would allow diplomats and service members in the Taiwanese military to display their flag and wear their uniforms while in the United States on official businesses. This reverses the Obama administration policy, formalized in a 2015 confidential memo, prohibiting the display of the Taiwanese flag at the request of the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement after voting against the Senate's Iran War Powers resolution: "President Trump had the clear authority to take out Qasem Soleimani, who posed an imminent threat to the safety and security of the United States. Those responsible for carrying out this successful mission should be commended - and they were. "I introduced an amendment to this resolution commending...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement on the passage of his amendment, based off his resolution, honoring members of the military and intelligence community and President Trump, for carrying out the successful mission that killed Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) and a designated terrorist: "Today, the Senate passed my amendment commending our...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, on Wednesday introduced Drew Tipton to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Texas in Corpus Christi. Tipton's confirmation will fill the last vacancy in Texas. Since 2017, the Senate has confirmed 20 judges for the state. As Sen. Cruz said: "Drew's experiences as a trial advocate and his deep history with the Southern District make him a strong and well-qualified candidate to be a judge for...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Today, U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Doug Jones (D-Ala.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) introduced bipartisan legislation that would expedite the start of certain hazard mitigation projects after natural disasters, while grant applicants await federal assistance through the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) hazard mitigation grant program. Under current law, local stakeholders...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, this week participated in a full committee hearing focused on the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, where he denounced Democrats' extreme pro-abortion statements and defended the need to protect the precious lives of the unborn. On the Left's radical pro-abortion stance, Sen. Cruz said: "The topic of this hearing, in my view, should not be the subject of reasonable disagreement. That...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, this week sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey calling on the company to end its services to members of the Iranian regime, including the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the Iranian Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif - both sanctioned by the Trump administration. He was joined by Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.). In...

HOUSTON, Texas - As the novel coronavirus continues to spread throughout China and around the world, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Chairman of the Subcommittee on Aviation and Space, this week sent a letter calling on the Secretary General of the United Nations' International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) to fully include Taiwan - a country ICAO has systematically excluded - in the international response to this deadly outbreak. In his...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) issued the following statement after voting to reject Democrats' Articles of Impeachment and acquit President Trump. "This impeachment circus is over. Just minutes ago, I voted to acquit President Trump. The majority of the Senate voted to acquit President Trump. This nonsense is over. This was abuse of the Constitution from day one, and today the Senate defended the rule of law. Today, the Senate defended the Constitution." On Tuesday, Sen....

WASHINGTON, D.C. - After the State of the Union address, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) appeared on Fox News' ‘Hannity' to discuss the victories Republicans in Congress and President Trump have achieved for the American people, as well as his Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunity Act. Highlights are below. WATCH: CRUZ ON HANNITY: President Trump Delivered a Powerful SOTU Highlighting Victories for All Americans The Economy Is Benefiting Hardworking Men and Women Across the Country:...