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Sen. Cruz Vows to Continue Fighting For Passage of Kate's Law WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Senate voted on Kate's Law, a bill introduced by U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).  The measure failed to invoke the 60-vote threshold necessary to move the bill forward.  The legislation is named for Kate Steinle, the 32-year-old woman who tragically died in the arms of her father on a San Francisco pier after being shot by an illegal alien who had several felony convictions and had been...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today delivered a speech on the Senate floor on Kate’s Law, which is slated to receive a vote this afternoon. Sen. Cruz first introduced a version of Kate’s Law last July and reintroduced the current version in October. The legislation is named for Kate Steinle, the 32-year-old woman who tragically died in the arms of her father on a San Francisco pier after being shot by an illegal alien who had several felony convictions and had...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today delivered remarks on the Senate floor in remembrance of Nobel peace laureate and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel, who passed away on Saturday at 87 years of age. Sen. Cruz’s remarks may be viewed here and a full transcript is below. Sen. Cruz: “‘I remember: it happened yesterday, or eternities ago. A young Jewish boy discovered the Kingdom of Night. I remember his bewilderment, I remember his anguish. It all happened so...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Paul Teller, the chief of staff to U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), will be transitioning to a senior leadership role at a recently established non-profit organization that will strengthen and promote conservative principles across the country. Teller has served in Cruz’s Senate office since January 2014 and has long been a leader within the conservative movement in Washington, D.C., working to mobilize grassroots conservative groups and magnify their impact and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts, today issued the following statement in response to FBI Director James Comey’s recommendation that the Department of Justice not pursue criminal charges against former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, despite her gross mishandling of classified information on private servers: "While I have tremendous respect for the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement observing Independence Day: “Today, we reflect on the precious gift of independence our Founding Fathers secured 240 years ago,” Sen. Cruz said. “The signing of the Declaration of Independence signified to the world that our God-given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must never be infringed. “As Thomas Jefferson so powerfully observed, ‘We hold these...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement in response to the terrorist attack in Baghdad at the hands of ISIS: “Tomorrow, Americans will celebrate the 240th anniversary of our nation’s birth; today, we mourn for the over 130 lives lost in a senseless bombing in Baghdad. Like the killings in Bangladesh on Friday, ISIS is responsible for this attack. This time their target was fellow Muslims.  It makes no difference to ISIS whether...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released the following statement today on the passing of Nobel peace laureate Elie Wiesel: “Elie Wiesel was a living testimony to the vow ‘Never Forget.’ Although he endured the unspeakable darkness of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, his defiant light burned ever brighter as he dedicated his talents to providing a voice not only for the Jewish victims of the Holocaust but also for the voiceless, the condemned, and the forsaken...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement in the wake of the latest radical Islamic terrorist attack in Bangladesh: “This weekend as Americans celebrate the birth of our nation and our freedoms, the horrific events yesterday are a sobering reminder of the radical Islamic terrorists who seek to destroy us,” Sen. Cruz said. “Twenty more innocent civilians are dead in the most recent attack by radical Islamic terrorism – this...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) today sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry, expressing grave concerns over Undersecretary of State Thomas Shannon’s recent trip to Venezuela. Specifically, the senators questioned the Administration’s engagement with President Nicolas Maduro given his regime’s human rights violations, disastrous economic policies, and anti-American rhetoric. “Secretary Kerry, if we have learned...

July 1, 2016 Greetings, This Fourth of July weekend, we reflect on the precious of gift of independence our Founding Fathers secured 240 years ago. The signing of the Declaration of Independence signified to the world that our God-given rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must never be infringed. As Thomas Jefferson so powerfully observed, “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator” - not by...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement, memorializing Kate Steinle on the first anniversary of her untimely death in San Francisco at the hands of an illegal alien who had several felony convictions and had been deported from the United States five times:  “One year ago, Kate Steinle was spending time with her father on San Francisco’s Pier 14. What happened next was something that never should have occurred. Kate’s time...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today sent a letter to Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSMRE) Director Joseph Pizarchik, regarding the agency’s repeated failures to provide the Railroad Commission of Texas with requested information related to the OSMRE’s proposed Stream Protection Rule. The agency’s noncompliance is a direct violation of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2016.   “The language that was part of the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement in response to the horrific murder of a 13-year-old American girl at her home in Israel at the hands of a Palestinian terrorist:  “Early Thursday morning, a Palestinian terrorist broke into the home of a family in Kiryat Arba. He stabbed to death a 13-year-old innocent girl named Hallel Yaffa Ariel, a U.S. citizen, who was sleeping in her bed. The terrorist also wounded a 31-year-old security...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) continued pushing back against the Obama administration’s willful blindness to radical Islamic terrorism in a Judiciary Committee oversight hearing today. While questioning Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Jeh Johnson, Sen. Cruz said, “What concerns me, and I believe should concern the Department of Homeland Security, is that because of this effort – scrubbing your law enforcement materials of any...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Next week, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) bill, Kate’s Law, will receive a vote on the Senate floor. Sen. Cruz first introduced Kate’s Law, or the Establishing Mandatory Minimums for Illegal Reentry Act of 2015, last July. The legislation is named for Kate Steinle, the 32-year-old woman who tragically died in the arms of her father on a San Francisco pier after being shot by an illegal alien who had several felony convictions and had been deported from...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts, convened a hearing in which he exposed the Obama administration’s pattern of turning a blind eye to radical Islamic terrorism, a dangerous practice that is counterproductive to keeping our country safe. Watch the hearing in its entirety here. Read Sen. Cruz’s opening statement here. Media coverage of the hearing can be found...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement in response to the horrific terrorist attack at Turkey’s largest airport:  “Yet again, ISIS has demonstrated the deadly determination of radical Islamic terrorists to attack all those who do not share their ideology, even in an overwhelmingly Muslim majority country like Turkey,” Sen. Cruz said. “This is the same vicious enemy that has attacked innocents in recent weeks from...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts, today chaired a hearing titled ‘Willful Blindness: Consequences of Agency Efforts to Deemphasize Radical Islam in Combating Terrorism.’ The hearing investigated the degree to which the Obama administration is willfully turning a blind eye to radical Islamic terrorism, with deadly consequences for the safety and security of the American...