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AUSTIN, Texas – On Sunday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Texas Tribune CEO and co-founder Evan Smith for an onstage discussion at the Texas Tribune Festival in Austin. There, Sen. Cruz discussed his priorities for Hurricane Harvey recovery, among other topics. Watch Sen. Cruz’s discussion about Hurricane Harvey here. “Houston is my home,” Sen. Cruz said. “I grew up in Houston. If you grow up in Houston, hurricanes are part of...

  September 23, 2017 Greetings, This week I was pleased to see the Senate fulfill its first responsibility: ensuring the defense of this nation by passing the FY2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). I voted in favor of this bill, one that is critically important to the Lone Star State, with more than $512 million of military construction funds for Texas defense installations, an increase in the number of F-35s to continue our air superiority, and a well-deserved pay...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) today released the following statements after President Trump announced his intention to nominate Erin Nealy Cox as U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Texas: "Erin Nealy Cox will be a stellar United States Attorney,” Sen. Cruz said. “She is smart, principled, and dedicated to the just enforcement of the law, and her background as a federal prosecutor, senior official at the Department of Justice,...

LAMESA, Texas – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today joined U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue and U.S. House Committee on Agriculture Mike Conaway in Lamesa, Texas to tour a local farm and ranch. Later, Sen. Cruz, Secretary Perdue and Chairman Conaway met with agriculture industry leaders, local farmers and ranchers at the Southwest Council of Agribusiness Annual Meeting. Still photos of Sen. Cruz’s visit may be viewed here. “The vibrant agriculture industry of Texas...

HOUSTON, Texas – On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) appeared on KRIV-Houston ‘Fox 26 News at 5pm’ and KTRH’s ‘Michael Berry Show,’ to discuss the path to recovery for Texas in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey’s damage and destruction along Gulf Coast communities. When asked about the Houston tour Sen. Cruz participated in with Speaker of the House, Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), on ‘Fox 26 News,’ Sen. Cruz discussed the personal impact of...

Washington, D.C. – La Congresista Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) y el Senador Ted Cruz (R-TX) hicieron la siguiente declaración en respuesta al reciente anuncio de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) de enviar Misión de Acompañamiento Electoral a las próximas elecciones en Nicaragua:  “Estamos extremadamente preocupados por el reciente anuncio de la Organización de Estados Americanos (OEA) de enviar una misión de...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) issued the following statement today responding to the recent announcement of an Organization of American States (OAS) accompanying observation mission for the upcoming election in Nicaragua: “We are extremely concerned with the recent announcement by the Organization of American States (OAS) to send an accompanying observation mission to Nicaragua just weeks before the scheduled municipal elections...

PASADENA, Texas – Following U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) visit in Friendswood with Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), and members of the Texas Congressional delegation, he traveled to Alvin with Team Rubicon to visit with storm victims and assist volunteers clean out flood-damaged homes. Still photos of Sen. Cruz’s visits will be available here. “I am grateful for the bipartisan commitments we’re seeing from Congress to ensure Texans...

PASADENA, Texas – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement regarding President Trump’s executive order granting expanded authority to the Treasury Department to enforce economic sanctions against North Korea:  “President Trump took decisive action today to cut off North Korea’s illicit financing. For decades, Pyongyang has circumvented sanctions through foreign trade networks and spurious front companies, with the consent and aid of...

FRIENDSWOOD, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today joined Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas), House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-N.J.), House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Carter (R-Texas), and members of the Houston Congressional delegation at Ellington Field for a briefing on Hurricane Harvey recovery efforts and an aerial tour of storm devastation and flood mitigation infrastructure. Following the aerial...

ALVIN, Texas – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) led a bipartisan, bicameral letter from members of the Texas delegation to Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson requesting that HUD allocate the Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) funds intended for Harvey immediately, lower certain statutory income requirements, give grantees maximum flexibility when funds are dispersed, and shorten the public comment...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) authored the following op-ed in the Houston Chronicle on their continued relief and recovery efforts for those affected by Hurricane Harvey. Read the op-ed in its entirety here and below:  Cornyn and Cruz: Texas, we've got your backHouston ChronicleSens. John Cornyn and Ted CruzSeptember 19, 2017 By now, we all know the numbers: over 50 inches of rainfall; at least 130,000 residences lost; and at least 500,000...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined Empower Texans' Michael Quinn Sullivan today to discuss his most recent efforts on tax reform, Obamacare repeal and replace, NDAA, and Hurricane Harvey recovery, among other topics. When asked about his priorities for fundamental tax reform, Sen. Cruz discussed the importance of expanding economic opportunity. "You know if you look historically, every time the federal government has pursued policies of high taxes, a crushing tax code, high...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and James Lankford (R-Okla.) yesterday introduced the Federal Disaster Assistance Nonprofit Fairness Act, which would make houses of worship eligible for Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Public Assistance program grants.    “I am proud to join Senator Blunt in introducing the Federal Disaster Assistance Nonprofit Fairness Act,” said Sen. Cruz. “Religious...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today voted in favor of final passage of the FY2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which provides numerous military necessities, including over $512 million in military construction funds to the state of Texas for 2018. Sen. Cruz sponsored 13 amendments and cosponsored nine that were successfully adopted into the bill, benefitting both Texas and our military interests abroad and in space. "Today the United States Senate fulfilled our...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, and Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), ranking member of the Senate Subcommittee on the Constitution, authored a bipartisan resolution to commemorate Constitution Day and the 230th anniversary of the signing of the Constitution of the United States of America. This weekend, Sens. Cruz and Blumenthal both appeared on Discovery Education's "Constitution Day Virtual Field Trip to the U.S....

ROCKPORT, Texas – On Friday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) visited storm victims in Meyerland, Port Arthur, and Rockport. In Meyerland, Sen. Cruz visited volunteers and surveyed damage at the United Orthodox Synagogues of Houston. Later, he traveled to Port Arthur where he visited with students, teachers, and volunteers at Staff Sergeant Lucian Adams Elementary School and Thomas Jefferson Middle School. Before assisting volunteers with relief efforts in Rockport, Sen. Cruz visited the...

  September 16, 2017 Greetings, This week I announced seven priorities that I believe should drive the debate in Congress to reform our tax code and cut taxes for hardworking Americans. Now is our moment to remake our tax system from the ground up, employing conservative principles to create a new tax code that is simpler, flatter, and fairer. Ultimately, the best place for a taxpayer's hard-earned income is with that taxpayer, not the federal government.  I hope...

ROCKPORT, Texas – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today visited the Houston neighborhood of Meyerland, and then traveled to Port Arthur, and Rockport to visit volunteers, storm victims, and first responders, and survey storm damage. In Meyerland, Sen. Cruz visited the United Orthodox Synagogues of Houston which sustained overwhelming flood damage. In Port Arthur, he surveyed storm damage at Staff Sergeant Lucian Adams Elementary School and Thomas Jefferson Middle School with Superintendent...