Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC -- This week, U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) and U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (TX-32) and his colleagues filed an amicus brief and joined a court challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, specifically challenging the legality of that law. The PPACA, which effectively originated as legislation in the Senate, raises revenue through the individual mandate, which violates the Constitutional clause that requires any bill which raises revenue...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today released the following statement commemorating the Brown v. Board of Education decision 60 years ago. "On May 17th, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that all children, regardless of race, deserve an equal opportunity to learn—an obligation that remains to be fulfilled 60 years later. "Brown was a landmark victory for justice, a unanimous repudiation of the oppressive doctrine of 'separate but equal.'  In...

Associated Press: Cost-Control Plan For Health Care Could Cost You [This so-called reference pricing, when presented as a choice as a health care contract in a free market is one efficient way to increase competition and reduce costs – but it should not be centrally planned by the federal government] The Obama administration has given the go-ahead for a new cost-control strategy called "reference pricing." It lets insurers and employers put a dollar limit on what health plans pay for some...

It’s graduation season and I had the privilege of speaking to the students of Stephen F. Austin State University this past weekend. I was encouraged by the countless stories of students, nearly half of whom are first-generation college graduates, who have worked hard to open the gateway to opportunity with a college degree. Click to view video As the Texas economy continues to grow, I want to welcome and congratulate our young people on a job well done and a world of exciting possibilities...

Bloomberg: Best Argument Yet Against Medicaid Expansion Opponents of Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion have traditionally argued that it will significantly burden state budgets and provide people with substandard health coverage. A new academic paper suggests what may be the strongest argument yet against the expansion: that it will keep many beneficiaries in poverty because it creates strong disincentives for work. ...a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper [argues] that...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today made the following statement regarding new emails between IRS employees and other government officials released by a watchdog group. “After emails showed that Lois Lerner was communicating directly with the Department of Justice, I sent Attorney General Holder a letter asking him to reconsider his decision to not appoint a special prosecutor in the IRS targeting scandal. And now today more emails have surfaced, this time showing that IRS...

From TribTalk: One San Francisco billionaire with a Super PAC shouldn’t be able to deprive thousands of lower- and middle-class Americans from good-paying energy jobs. Yet this is exactly what hedge fund manager turned green energy investor Tom Steyer has pledged to do by promising up to $100 million to Democrats for the 2014 elections on the condition that they oppose construction of the Keystone pipeline. Of course, Steyer is free to exercise his First Amendment rights, but it’s a...

From TribTalk: One San Francisco billionaire with a Super PAC shouldn’t be able to deprive thousands of lower- and middle-class Americans from good-paying energy jobs. Yet this is exactly what hedge fund manager turned green energy investor Tom Steyer has pledged to do by promising up to $100 million to Democrats for the 2014 elections on the condition that they oppose construction of the Keystone pipeline. Of course, Steyer is free to exercise his First Amendment rights, but it’s a...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today released the following statement regarding reports of mismanagement and misconduct at the Department of Veterans Affairs: "I am deeply concerned about reports regarding the Department of Veterans Affairs, and those responsible for mistreating our veterans must be held accountable. We need to know the facts.  If it is true that leadership at the VA deliberately concealed gross misconduct, which resulted in the unnecessary loss of lives of...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today released the following statement regarding legislation he is drafting to prevent the Federal Communications Commission from expanding its authority over the Internet: "The FCC's latest adventure in 'net neutrality' would stifle innovation and subject the Internet to nanny-state regulation from Washington.  Internet freedom has produced robust free speech for billions and a wide-open incubator for entrepreneurs to generate jobs and expand...

Washington Examiner: Obamacare insurer says Americans have to break the 'choice habit' In a line that says a lot about where health care is heading under Obamacare, an insurance executive offering plans through the law was quoted in the New York Times on Tuesday as saying, “We have to break people away from the choice habit that everyone has.” Marcus Merz, the chief executive of PreferredOne, made the remark in an article describing the trend toward narrow networks in health care...

New York Times: More Insured, but the Choices Are Narrowing These so-called narrow networks, featuring limited groups of providers, have made a big entrance on the newly created state insurance exchanges, where they are a common feature in many of the plans. While the sizes of the networks vary considerably, many plans now exclude at least some large hospitals or doctors’ groups. Smaller networks are also becoming more common in health care coverage offered by employers and in private...

Forbes: New McKinsey Survey: 74% Of Obamacare Sign-Ups Were Previously Insured The new McKinsey report…indicates that the proportion of uninsured individuals paying for coverage has shot up, from 53 percent in February to 83 percent in April. For previously insured individuals, the percentage of payers increased from 86 to 89 percent. The proportion of individuals purchasing ACA plans who had been previously uninsured remained low. In February, McKinsey reported that only 27 percent of...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today requested unanimous consent to pass S. Res. 255, which would establish a Joint Select Committee to investigate the Benghazi attacks. He originally introduced this legislation on September 12, 2013, which currently has 25 Senate co-sponsors. “Twenty months after the Benghazi attack, we have four dead Americans and no dead terrorists,” Sen. Cruz said. “It is chilling to think our President had better things to do than...

This week my office released an important report documenting the many instances of lawlessness by the Obama Administration. The breadth of the abuses of power conducted over the past few years is breathtaking. I hope you will join me in drawing attention to this increasingly worrisome problem and standing up for our freedoms. Please keep reading for more. All the best, Ted Cruz Reporting on the Obama Administration's Lawlessness On Wednesday, Sen. Cruz released his fourth Legal Limit report on...