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This week, President Obama announced he will unilaterally grant amnesty to millions who have entered the country illegally. This is unconstitutional and it is lawless. His actions defy the people who have spoken in overwhelming numbers against amnesty. I will keep working to uphold the rule of law and work towards implementing a system that welcomes immigrants to our nation in a safe, legal manner. Please keep reading for an update on the latest in the Senate. All the best, Ted Cruz Click to...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today introduced S. 2965, the Operation United Assistance Tax Exclusion Act, which provides that members of the Armed Forces performing hazardous humanitarian services in West Africa to combat the spread of Ebola shall be entitled to appropriate tax benefits. “Once our armed forces are placed in harm’s way, Congress, and the Commander-in-Chief have a responsibility to support them and to provide security for the families who remain...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today spoke on the Senate floor harkening back to Cicero’s famous warning to the citizens of Rome. Over 2,000 years later, the words are powerfully relevant to our current President’s lawlessness.  “When, President Obama, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now,” Sen. Cruz...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, spoke with Fox News’ Megyn Kelly last night regarding the President’s decision to unilaterally grant amnesty and what the new Republican Congress can do to stop it. On the President’s planned executive action: “We are unfortunately witnessing a constitutional crisis. What President Obama's doing is he is defying the law, he's defying the Constitution. The President quite rightly said just a few weeks ago his...

From Politico:The Constitution designs a system of checks and balances for our nation, and executive amnesty for immigrants here illegally unilaterally decreed from the White House would seriously undermine the rule of law.Our founders repeatedly warned about the dangers of unlimited power within the executive branch; Congress should heed those words as the President threatens to grant amnesty to millions of people who have come to our country illegally.To be clear, the dispute over executive...

WASHINGTON, DC -- Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today issued the following statement regarding the Senate’s passage of legislation to approve the Keystone XL pipeline. “Today the U.S. Senate took an important step toward doing the job President Obama refuses to do: approving construction of the Keystone XL pipeline and jumpstarting an American Energy Renaissance,” said Sen. Cruz.  “Approving Keystone is a step in the right direction, but we need more. America needs a...

‘All our friends in Israel have our sympathies in the aftermath of this atrocity, but they need more than that.  They need an unequivocal statement of solidarity, a recognition that America is not a disinterested bystander in this battle.’ WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today released the following statement in response to the brutal terrorist attack at Kehilat Yaakov Synagogue in Jerusalem this morning: “Evil was unleashed in Jerusalem today, as...

WASHINGTON, DC -- Today U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, published a series of social media posts celebrating Internet Freedom including his first videos uploaded to Vine. His first Vine, a 6-second video, which explains his general approach to regulating the Internet is available here: His second Vine explaining the negative consequences broadband would suffer under Title II reclassification is available here: Additionally, Sen. Cruz posted a new YouTube video that explains the negative...

WASHINGTON, DC -- Last week Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, unveiled four principles to protect Internet freedom, which has earned praised from numerous free-market leaders. Here is what people are saying about Sen. Cruz’s efforts: “Sen. Ted Cruz got it right last week when he tweeted that Title II would be ObamaCare for the Internet.”— L. Gordon Crovitz, former Wall Street Journal publisher and author of the Wall Street Journal’s Information Age...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, released this video opposing the Internet sales tax in advance of his speech in Austin, Texas, this afternoon on an agenda to protect the Internet. Watch Sen. Cruz’s remarks in Austin streamed live at 2:30 pm CT: TexasTribune.org/livestream. TRANSCRIPT If the Internet sales tax became law, small online retailers would have to comply with over 9,600 tax jurisdictions across the country. Big box stores don’t have to do that. And it’s...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today spoke at the Capital Factory in Austin, Texas about the future of the Internet. “Today, with the Internet, anyone can put up a website, get a PayPal account, get FedEx, and you have nationwide distribution,” said Sen. Cruz.  “What an incredible, transformational, innovative shift that has empowered people—all driven by freedom. In Texas, we are fond of saying ‘Don’t mess with Texas.’ The...

From Washington Post:Never before has it been so easy to turn an idea into a business. With a simple Internet connection, some ingenuity and a lot of hard work, anyone today can create a new service or app or start selling products nationwide.In the past, such a person would have to know the right people and raise substantial start-up capital to get a brick-and-mortar store running. Not anymore. The Internet is the great equalizer when it comes to jobs and opportunity. We should make a...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today announced new staff roles and hires in his U.S. Senate D.C. press office. He has named Phil Novack deputy press secretary and Jack Minor deputy digital director. He recently promoted Amanda Carpenter to communications director. Following is brief background of Sen. Cruz’s communications staff. Amanda Carpenter, Communications Director: Carpenter joined Sen. Cruz’s office in January 2013 as senior communications adviser and...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today released the following message in commemoration of Veterans Day: Ninety-six years ago, young men from the states of Texas and Oklahoma who had no combat experience, were deployed to France and soon thrust into one of the bloodiest battles of World War One – known as the Hundreds Days Offensive. On the morning of October 8, 1918, the troops were woken minutes before the engagement and rushed to the trenches along the...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today released the following statement in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall:Twenty-five years ago today, the world changed when the seemingly-impenetrable wall between East and West Germany was torn down by a people determined to break the stranglehold of totalitarian Communism. The goal of the Soviet Union was to obliterate the very principle of freedom and to establish a global network of oppression under...

WASHINGTON, DC -- Today Sens. Ted Cruz, R-TX, and Mike Lee, R-UT, released the following statement after President Obama nominated U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch to replace Attorney General Eric Holder: “President Obama’s Attorney General nominee deserves fair and full consideration of the United States Senate, which is precisely why she should not be confirmed in the lame duck session of Congress by senators who just lost their seats and are no longer accountable to the voters....

WASHINGTON, DC -- Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today sent a letter to Sen. Harry Reid, D-NV, the outgoing Senate Majority Leader, signed by Sens. Mike Crapo, R-ID; Mike Lee, R-UT; Pat Roberts, R-KS; Jeff Sessions, R-AL; and David Vitter, R-LA expressing opposition to President Obama's announced intention to take unilateral executive action by the end of this year to lawlessly grant amnesty to immigrants who have entered the country illegally. "The Supreme Court has recognized that ‘over no...

WASHINGTON, DC -- Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, today sent a letter to the Department of Health and Human Services, joined by all 24 Texas House Republicans expressing concern about how existing public health resources were used in response to the outbreak of Ebola in the United States. “In fact, of the $10.8 billion the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates it spent in FY 2014, almost $1.4 billion went to ‘Public Health Preparedness...

This week we witnessed a tremendous victory for religious liberty. Last month, the City of Houston issued a subpoena demanding that five pastors hand over their sermons and correspondence. Together, thousands rose up and told the City to withdraw that subpoena. Americans defended our right to worship freely without fear of government intimidation, sending a message that was so loud and strong the City of Houston could not ignore it. And the City of Houston complied, withdrawing the subpoenas...