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WASHINGTON, D.C. –  U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today delivered a speech on the Senate floor highlighting the many examples of Republican leadership surrendering to President Obama’s demands, including funding Planned Parenthood and the catastrophic Iran nuclear deal. Sen. Cruz’s speech followed an attempt to permit a vote on his amendment to end taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood and the Iranian nuclear deal. His colleagues refused to allow him the courtesy of a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), along with Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-Iowa), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), and Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), Chairman of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) requesting an affirmative determination of whether the Obama Administration’s plan to transfer U.S. oversight of the...

September 25, 2015 Greetings, This week, I continued leading the fight to protect the lives of unborn children and to ensure not a penny of taxpayer dollars is directed to Planned Parenthood, a private organization under criminal investigation. When video evidence surfaced depicting the barbaric selling of unborn baby parts by Planned Parenthood, Americans of conscience —both pro-life and pro-choice— were understandably shocked. This is more than a fiscal matter, it is a moral...

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today delivered a speech on the Senate floor asking colleagues for unanimous consent to  his resolution that would rename the plaza in front of the Chinese embassy in Washington, D.C. as “Liu Xiaobo Plaza,” after Dr. Liu Xiaobo, a Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner who has been imprisoned, along with his wife, Liu Xia, for seeking basic human rights denied to him by the People’s Republic of China...

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement on Pope Francis’ speech to Congress:  “It was an honor to have Pope Francis address Congress. It was a powerful call for all of us to set aside pettiness and partisan divides and come together with shared values to solve the very real challenges facing this country, and I hope that is a message that is heard on both sides of the aisle. Pope Francis is a powerful voice for life. He is...

Sen. Cruz: The Refugee Flow Out of Syria Must Be Treated as a National Security Risk WASHINGTON, D.C. –  U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today sent a letter to Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, Secretary of State John Kerry, Attorney General Loretta Lynch, and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey. In his letter, Sen. Cruz acknowledges the need to address the humanitarian crisis in the region, but also shares grave concerns regarding the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) penned an op-ed for The Federalist, applauding Pope Francis for boldly and unabashedly standing for life, marriage, and faith.  “Pope Francis has spoken to the world, proclaiming the inherent truth and goodness of life, marriage, and religious liberty. I am grateful for his leadership on these central issues. In an era when many global leaders are descending to relativism, his courageous defense of the dignity of the human...

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today penned the following op-ed for POLITICO: Read Sen. Cruz’s op-ed in its entirety below and here.  The Republican Party's Surrender PoliticsPoliticoBy: Sen. Ted CruzSept. 23, 2015  What happens in politics when one side is absolutely committed to its principles, willing to fight for them no matter the cost, and the other side reflexively surrenders on every issue? We have modern-day Washington. Today, President...

WASHINGTON, D.C. –  U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today released the following statement after Senate Democrats blocked the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act: “Today, Senate Democrats voted against protecting children, capable of feeling pain, by blocking legislation that would stop abortions from being performed on babies older than five months. Despite the Senate’s refusal to take up this legislation, I am confident that one day America will end the horrific...

September 18, 2015 Greetings, This was a special week for patriots as we celebrated Constitution Day on Thursday. The Constitution, crafted by our Founding Fathers, acts as a chain to bind the mischief of government and to protect the liberties endowed to us by our Creator. The Constitution was created to lend power to government — not to give it — to lend it, and to lend it I would suggest only in good behavior. Unfortunately, we’ve witnessed the Obama Administration wield...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today announced that they are accepting applications for judicial vacancies and U.S. Attorney vacancies in Texas. The Federal Judicial Evaluation Committee (FJEC), a bipartisan panel of leading attorneys in Texas, will review applications, interview candidates, and make recommendations to the Senators. The judicial vacancies are in the Eastern (Tyler) and Southern (Brownsville) Districts of Texas. The U.S....

September 11, 2015 Greetings, First and foremost, today we remember the victims of September 11, 2001: the people in the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, emblems of America’s economic power, and the first responders who charged in to save them. The military and civilian personnel in the Pentagon working to keep our country safe. The innocent passengers on those three doomed flights, some of whom heroically sacrificed themselves to minimize the casualties on the ground.  But as...

HOUSTON, Texas -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, issued the following statement observing the anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attack that took place fourteen years ago today: "Fourteen years have passed since September 11, 2001, a day that changed the trajectory of the United States. The worst terrorist attack on our homeland taught us two things: that our oceans would not protect us from a determined enemy in the 21st century, and that radical Islamic terrorism was not a regional...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) penned the following op-ed for POLITICO, outlining a detailed plan to derail the Iran nuclear deal. If President Barack Obama’s catastrophic nuclear deal with Iran, the world’s foremost terrorist state, goes forward, there will be nothing to stop it from obtaining a nuclear bomb. Sen. Cruz’s op-ed can be read below and in its entirety here. We Can Stop the Iran Deal and Here’s How to Do ItPoliticoBy: Sen. Ted CruzSept....

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today sent a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker John Boehner laying out a three-step approach to stop the flow of funds to the Iranian regime according to the terms of Corker-Cardin, the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act which was passed by both houses of Congress and signed into law by President Obama. In his letter, Sen. Cruz reminds the majority leadership that this deal would allow billions of frozen...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today delivered a speech on the Senate floor strongly opposing the Administration’s Iran nuclear deal and urging 42 Democrats to reconsider their stances on this catastrophic agreement. Not only would the deal funnel more than $100 billion to radical Islamic terrorists, making the Obama Administration the world’s top financier of terrorism, it would also facilitate Iran’s acquisition of nuclear weapons. “This...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today spoke at the Stop the Iran Deal rally hosted and organized by Tea Party Patriots. Leading efforts to halt the Iran Nuclear Deal, Sen. Cruz underscored the dangers of Iran acquiring nuclear weapons, which would be funded and accelerated by this catastrophic deal. “When we talk about terrorism, it’s worth remembering that if this deal goes through, we know to an absolute certainty people will die. Americans will die, Israelis...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today released a powerful video rejecting the Iran Nuclear Deal. The video reminds Americans of the dangerous reality that will occur if the president succeeds in implementing this deal. The first responsibility of Congress is to protect the national security of this country - to protect the lives and safety of men, women, and children across this country. This deal does not prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and allows more than $100...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -– U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today released the following statement regarding the arrest of Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis: "Today, judicial lawlessness crossed into judicial tyranny. Today, for the first time ever, the government arrested a Christian woman for living according to her faith. This is wrong. This is not America. "I stand with Kim Davis. Unequivocally. I stand with every American that the Obama Administration is trying to force to chose between honoring his or...