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WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today released the following statement praising the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s decision to drop Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid program: “Today, my home state of Texas proved that states can make a real difference in the fight to block taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood,” Sen. Cruz said. “I’m proud of Texas for leading the way in affirming the sanctity of life, and I...

October 16, 2015 Greetings, Last week, the 6th Circuit Court made an important decision to temporarily halt implementation of the Obama Administration’s “Waters of the United States” rule. This is an important victory for the American people, especially for Texas farmers, ranchers, and landowners. I will continue to fight to rein in the alphabet soup of regulating agencies, promote free-market principles, and demand accountability and justice from the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) admonished the State Department for its recent remarks about Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israel. Sen. Cruz called for Secretary John Kerry to disavow the department’s offensive remarks about Israel being guilty of terrorism or resign.  Read The Washington Free Beacon’s coverage Sen. Cruz’s comments here and below. Ted Cruz Demands Kerry Resign Over Israel CriticismThe Washington Free BeaconBy:...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today admonished the State Department for its recent remarks about Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israel. Yesterday, following Secretary of State John Kerry’s suggestion that Israel’s settlements provoked the most recent wave of Palestinian terrorism, his chief spokesman reaffirmed his boss’ position by declaring both the Palestinians and Israel equally guilty of terrorism in a State Department press...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch requesting additional information about the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) interactions with state and local law enforcement agencies.   In the letter, Sen. Cruz expresses concern that current DOJ policies may be hindering the ability of law enforcement agencies to protect the public, particularly when law enforcement officials are subject to federally imposed legal, policy,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), along with 24 House Republicans, sent a letter to the Director of the National Portrait Gallery Kim Sajet, calling for the immediate removal of Margaret Sanger’s bust from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. The bust is on display in the Gallery’s “Struggle for Justice” exhibit. Sanger, a founder of Planned Parenthood, believed in using contraceptives to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today released the following statement upon the 6th Circuit’s stay on the “Waters of the United States” rule, which allows litigation over the legality of the rule to proceed before implementation: “The 6th Circuit’s order to halt implementation of the EPA’s new ‘Waters of the United States’ rule is a win for all Americans, but especially for farmers, ranchers, and landowners in the state of...

October 9, 2015 Greetings, Americans every day face the daunting problems caused by overregulation. It appears that the federal government has forgotten the Jeffersonian standard of leaving the people "free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement." Instead, bureaucrats in Washington now seemingly regulate everything under the sun. In order to bring more attention to the problems of overregulation, I chaired a hearing this week, which examined the harmful effects onerous...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today released the following statement upon the House of Representatives’ passage of legislation lifting restrictions on crude oil exports:  “I applaud the House of Representatives for voting today to remove restrictions on exports of domestic crude oil, an effort strongly led by Rep. Joe Barton of Texas. Eliminating the de facto ban on crude oil exports is long past due. This ban is a relic of 1970s price controls, and like...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) submitted the following statement into the Congressional Record concerning the recent Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians: “My thoughts and prayers are with the Israeli people who are enduring a new escalation of Palestinian terrorism. “Last Thursday evening, a mother and father were murdered in front of their four children ages 9, 7, 4 and 4 months when Hamas terrorists opened fire on their car. A few days later,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced as a lead cosponsor the Stop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act. The bill would withhold federal funds from sanctuary jurisdictions. The legislation also incorporates critical elements of Kate’s Law, which Sen. Cruz introduced earlier this year, by imposing a five-year mandatory minimum sentence on any alien who illegally reenters the country after having been convicted of an aggravated felony or two prior...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) issued the following statement regarding today’s final vote on the conference report of the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). “The Fiscal Year 2016 NDAA provides the minimum necessary funding authorities for the Department of Defense,” said Sen. Cruz. “While I would like to see additional funding dedicated to our military, this bill points us in the right direction and begins to address the damaging...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) spoke with Sierra Club president Aaron Mair during a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing yesterday in an exchange that proved, contrary to liberal assertions that man-caused climate change is “settled science,” that there is still a healthy and vigorous debate about the causes and nature of climate change based on the data and scientific evidence. The exchange occurred during a hearing Cruz chaired of the Senate Judiciary...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today chaired a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts titled “Opportunity Denied: How Overregulation Harms Minorities” that investigated the harmful effects of government overregulation on people and businesses who lack the resources and political connections to deal effectively with mountains of red tape. Sen. Cruz invited four witnesses to the hearing,...

October 2, 2015 Greetings, This week we’ve seen, once again, why the American people are so frustrated with Washington. With the passage of a “dirty” continuing resolution spending bill, the American people are facing a setback in the fight to block funding for Planned Parenthood and the Iran nuclear deal. However, I have made it clear to my colleagues in the Senate that the fight is far from over. The funding bill passed this week will expire December 11, and until that time I...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today released the following statement on the devastating U.S. military transport plane crash in Afghanistan: “Today, Dyess Air Force Base and our country face a heartbreaking loss. My thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the airmen, contractors, and Afghans killed in today’s C-130 crash in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. While the specifics of the crash are still unfolding, one thing we know is that Texans and our fellow...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today released the following statement upon the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement of a stricter standard for ozone levels, lowering the acceptable standard from 75 parts per billion to 70 parts per billion:  “The EPA’s new ozone standard is the latest in a multitude of back-breaking regulations the Obama Administration is intent on implementing, despite the great harm these regulations will inflict on...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, 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....

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter seeking information on the appalling sexual abuse of children reportedly occurring in Afghanistan and requesting the Department of Defense’s (DoD) plan to eradicate this despicable violation of human rights. Sen. Cruz’s letter follows recent reports of potentially widespread sexual abuse of young boys in Afghanistan, a practice known as “Bacha...