Press Releases

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen Ted Cruz, R-Texas, released the following statement in response to President Obama's State of the Union address: "This evening, President Obama delivered a speech that shows he has lost the support of the American people. He is going it alone because, after five years of failed economic policies and broken promises, the public and their elected representatives aren't willing to go with him anymore. "We've heard it before. The promises President Obama made to increase...

From The Wall Street Journal: Of all the troubling aspects of the Obama presidency, none is more dangerous than the president's persistent pattern of lawlessness, his willingness to disregard the written law and instead enforce his own policies via executive fiat. On Monday, Mr. Obama acted unilaterally to raise the minimum wage paid by federal contracts, the first of many executive actions the White House promised would be a theme of his State of the Union address Tuesday night. The president's...

Thank you, it is a pleasure to get back to Heritage to be with so many friends and to have the opportunity to discuss an issue with such pressing importance, which is namely the growing influence that Russia is having in the world. The lack of focus on human rights, the lack of US leadership championing freedom, and the lack of effective leadership defending our interest in the world which is making the world a much more dangerous place. Russia is going the wrong way on human rights, and the...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today called on President Obama to hold himself and his administration accountable for the continuing harm his health law is inflicting upon Americans around the country. Regarding Obamacare, Sen. Cruz has asked: “Will the President finally recognize that it was a mistake to ram through Obamacare on a party-line vote and that, right now, it is hurting millions of Americans? Will he take real responsibility for misleading the American people...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, released the following statement marking Holocaust Remembrance Day: "Today, the world pauses on Holocaust Remembrance Day to remember the pure evil that engulfed the world more than 69 years ago as we celebrate the solemn anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland on January 27, 1945. "The Nazis built over 42,500 concentration camps all over Europe, which were used to systematically murder as many as 20...

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is calling on President Obama to hold himself and his administration accountable for the preventable attacks on the U.S. foreign post in Benghazi on September 11, 2012 where four Americans – Tyrone Woods, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith and Ambassador Christopher Stevens – were murdered by terrorists. Ambassador Stevens was the first U.S. ambassador murdered on duty since 1979. Regarding the Benghazi attacks, Sen. Cruz has asked: Will the...

One question is on the mind of all Americans: can we trust the Obama administration to keep its promises, protect individuals’ rights, and uphold the law? The lack of accountability in Washington is creating a crisis of confidence in this country, and under this President, trust in government is approaching record lows. President Obama has an opportunity to address people’s concerns in his State of the Union address Tuesday. Please keep reading below for the full list of five...

WASHINGTON, DC -– U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is calling on President Obama to hold himself and his administration accountable for the failure to initiate economic recovery and answer what he will do to implement policies that will increase jobs, end stifling regulations and fundamentally reform our tax code. Regarding the economy, Sen. Cruz has asked: “Will the President recognize that his economic policies have failed to create the millions of jobs that he promised and have,...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, released the following statement regarding the ongoing violence and civic unrest in Ukraine: "Over the past few days, at least three members of the political opposition have been either shot or beaten to death by forces under the control of Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych for protesting his new restrictions on the freedoms of speech and assembly that had previously been guaranteed by their country's constitution. "The tragic loss of life in...

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WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is calling on President Obama to show he is willing to hold himself and members of his Administration accountable to the American people by answering concerns about the government’s handling of personal data in his State of the Union Address. This is one of five crucial questions Sen. Cruz would like answered. Regarding privacy, Senator Cruz has asked: “Will the President act to ensure that the privacy of law-abiding citizens is...

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, today presented five questions Americans deserve to have answered by President Obama in next week’s State of the Union address. “Americans all over the nation are asking questions about the economy, Obamacare, the IRS, Benghazi, and the NSA that aren’t being answered. However, as the President prepares his State of the Union address, he has signaled he has no intention of clearing the air,” Sen. Cruz said. “The...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, released the following statement marking the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade: “Today, thousands of people march to the Supreme Court with heavy hearts. It is a solemn ritual, one that reminds us of the tragic loss of over 56 million unborn lives. "Fifty-six million boys and girls who never drew a breath of air. Poets and inventors, doctors and athletes, explorers and musicians, the world is far the poorer for their loss. "Every human life is a...

Tom Coburn changed Washington. Elected to represent the great state of Oklahoma, Dr. Coburn became a voice for millions of Americans inspired by his fearless leadership and "no more business as usual" approach to legislating. His tireless efforts to make DC listen to growing consternation over our nation's fiscal crisis forced Washington to acknowledge the problem. His willingness to scrutinize every bill and to decipher a bureaucratic tangle of government programs imposed badly needed...

This week, once again, Washington politicians failed to listen to the American people. The Senate passed a $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill, and the Majority Leader and Senate Democrats refused to reexamine the detrimental harms many families are facing due to Obamacare. The expansion of federal power and the lawlessness promoted among Senate Democrats and the President must stop. Just this year, President Obama has delayed the employer mandate by a year, without the approval of Congress. He...

WASHINGTON, DC -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, issued the following statement in response to today's speech by President Obama on NSA surveillance: "We need to see the details, but it's an excellent development that the President says he intends to end the government's bulk collection of phone metadata for millions of law-abiding Americans. The federal government must respect the constitutional rights of every American. Our intelligence community is to be praised when it protects our security...

WASHINGTON, DC -- Today U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, asked for unanimous consent to pass one amendment to prohibit the omnibus spending bill from funding Obamacare, then a second amendment to defund Obamacare and use the funds to restore cuts to military pensions. "This $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill is outrageous enough, but on top of that it provides direct funding for Obamacare, which is destroying jobs, killing insurance plans, causing premiums to increase and people to lose their...

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, released the following on yesterday’s Senate Select Committee’s Review of the Terrorist Attacks on U.S. Facilities in Benghazi, Libya: "The majority views of the SSCI report confirm a number of things long suspected about the Benghazi attacks. Our government was warned, and there were steps that could have been taken to protect Americans,” Sen. Cruz said. “But our people were left at significant risk against a known...