Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, today voted against reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for two years. Sen. Cruz voted for an amendment that would have required federal government agencies to get a warrant in order to view Americans’ private communications collected using FISA Section 702 authority. About the votes, Sen. Cruz said, “Last...

Good Evening, Our country was founded upon the principles of law and order, but this week Senate Democrats looked the American people dead in the eye and told them they truly don’t care about the Constitution, the rule of law, or the safety and security of our country and its citizens when they dismissed the articles of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Make no mistake—this is a deliberate. They threw the articles of impeachment out the window because they...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) urging for an extension of time to Delfin LNG LLC’s approval to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to European and Asian countries due to inaction on the Delfin project by other federal agencies. The senators’ letter follows the Biden administration’s deference to the radical climate lobby, instituting a pause on all pending non-Free Trade Agreement (FTA) export permit...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, today condemned Senate Democrats for ignoring the Constitution and over 200 years of precedent by refusing to hold an impeachment trial for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Sen. Cruz said, “It’s the Senate’s duty to hold a court of impeachment when articles of impeachment have been sent from the House of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on The Constitution, joined Senate Republican colleagues and House impeachment managers for a press conference laying out the evidence of U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas’s lawlessness and calling on Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to follow the Constitution and hold a trial in the Senate. During the press conference, Sen. Cruz said, “We’ve just...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, commended Samsung for securing up to $6.4 billion in federal funding towards their Taylor and Austin, Texas semiconductor manufacturing facilities. The award is expected to create over 20,000 jobs in the area. “Today’s announcement confirms Texas remains the single best location for companies to grow and thrive. But to fully accomplish the national security...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement today after Iran escalated its attacks on Israel by launching munitions from Iranian territory.   Sen. Cruz said, “Iran has encircled Israel and has been attacking our Israeli allies from almost every front for months. They have launched attacks from Syria, Iraq, Yemen, the West Bank, Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon, and of course the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Now...

Good Afternoon, Last week, as the Senate considered spending legislation to fund large portions of the government, I fought for an amendment to stop Democrats from sending billions to Iran — a country that routinely chants death to America and death to Israel. Unsurprisingly, Democrats voted to keep sending money to a nation that is the largest state-sponsor of terrorism.I also introduced two amendments relating to wildfire relief to the spending package before the Senate. The amendments were...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, praised Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s speech to a joint session of Congress yesterday. PM Kishida highlighted the strategic significance of the U.S.-Japan alliance. This year marks the 60th anniversary of a defense training partnership between the two countries that brings Japanese Self-Defense Forces to Fort Bliss, Texas, to train on missile defense systems. Sen. Cruz said, “The...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on The Constitution, gave a Senate floor speech this afternoon blasting Senate Democrats’ effort to defy precedent and skip the required impeachment trial for U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) blocked Sen. Cruz’s effort to establish, by unanimous consent of the Senate, a committee to hold an impeachment trial. During his...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, penned an op-ed arguing that efforts by Senate Democrats to end impeachment proceedings for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas without a trial are unconstitutional and a violation of Senate rules. The op-ed ran in the Wall Street Journal and can be read here. In the piece, the Senators wrote: “The Constitution, Senate rules and precedent are clear: The Senate has an...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), and U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), joined several of their House and Senate Republican colleagues in filing a bicameral amicus curiae brief in the D.C. Circuit in support of state and industry challengers of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) so-called “Good Neighbor” air rule that targets...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Tim Scott (R-S.C), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, joined several of their Senate Republican colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen and Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The letter demands that the Biden administration explain its recent decision to renew a sanctions waiver allowing the Iranian regime to more easily access funds held overseas. Those funds may be used to fund terrorism, and...

DALLAS, Texas – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) participated in a press conference yesterday to discuss Southern Methodist University’s Tech Hub designation and the growth of the semiconductor industry in North Texas. SMU has been designated the lead agency for this federally funded economic development initiative, aimed at bolstering semiconductor manufacturing in the United States. Sen. Cruz also participated in a roundtable discussion with SMU Texoma Tech Hub consortium leadership and discussed...

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) participated in a press conference yesterday to celebrate the completion of the Packery Channel restoration project. The Packery Channel suffered damage from Hurricane Harvey in 2017, and since then, Sen. Cruz has worked with the City of Corpus Christi and federal agencies FEMA and the Army Corps of Engineers to ensure the Packery Channel had the resources to make necessary repairs. During the press conference, Sen. Cruz said, “We had a...

MIDLAND, Texas – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) participated in a press conference yesterday, hosted by the Midland Odessa Transportation Alliance (MOTRAN). Sen. Cruz joined local leaders and stakeholders to discuss the I-27 Numbering Act of 2023, which passed the Senate unanimously and was recently signed into law by President Biden. During the press conference, Sen. Cruz said, “Every day in the Senate I view my job as fighting for the men and women of West Texas. … I think infrastructure dollars...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) issued the following statement after his bipartisan legislation naming the Ports-to-Plains Corridor between Laredo, Texas, and Raton, New Mexico as the future Interstate 27 was signed into law. About the bill signing, Sen. Cruz said, “I’m so proud to have successfully worked with the community leaders and business owners along the I-27 corridor who have helped to make today a reality, and for the bipartisan work we have been able to do to deliver...

Good Evening,  In Texas, we believe in the merits of hard work. As the Ranking Member on the Senate Commerce Committee, I have been a vocal advocate for student athletes who have earned enormous sums of money for their career accomplishments in college athletics and should be entitled to the fruits of their labor. This week, I hosted a roundtable discussion on name, image, and likeness (NIL) rights in collegiate athletics alongside several of my Senate colleagues, legendary football coach Nick...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after the Biden administration abstained on a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding that Israel halt operations against Hamas without linking such a ceasefire to Hamas releasing hostages: “Joe Biden and Biden officials have sought to undermine Israel and boost Hamas since the earliest days of the administration. They suspended anti-terrorism sanctions...