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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Joe Manchin (D-W.Va), announced that they had secured a bipartisan amendment to prevent the Biden administration from banning gas stoves in households across America in the Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Services and General Government (FSGG) funding bill. The amendment largely mirrors the bipartisan Gas Stoves Protection and Freedom Act that...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and U.S. Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) are introducing amendments to the FY24 National Defense Authorization Act. The amendments build on the National Defense Authorization Act of 2023, which (1) included language from legislation Cruz previously introduced to repeal the Department of Defense’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate and (2) required a report on how DOD adjudicated service member’s requests for an exemption from the mandate on...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations adopted U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) amendment to streamline the presidential permitting process for building key bridges across the Rio Grande in Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, Texas. The amendment, which was included in a bill authorizing funding for the State Department, secures a critical step in Sen. Cruz’s bicameral, bipartisan effort to see four international bridges that will help create...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), proud Hispanic Americans and members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced the Respect for Hispanic Americans Act. The legislation would ban the use of the wholly-invented term “Latinx” in any official government communication by a federal agency or employee. Similar legislation has been introduced by both parties in the House of Representatives and at the state level. Earlier this...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced the Deterring Egregious State Infiltration of Schools’ Training (DESIST) Act. The Act would prohibit the Department of Defense from establishing or maintaining a Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) program at any private school operated or controlled by entities linked to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), Chinese Communist Party (CCP), or the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling on him to rescind discriminatory guidance issued by the State Department halting bilateral scientific and technological cooperation in certain Israeli-held territories. The following Senators joined Sen. Cruz as cosigners of the letter: Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Rick Scott...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) issued the following statement after President Biden signed into law the Changing Age-Determined Eligibility to Student Incentive Payments (CADETS) Act, bipartisan legislation he introduced with Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.). The bill extends financial assistance to older cadets who attend the Texas A&M Maritime Academy, or one of the other five state maritime academies, and who commit to a post-graduation...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), ranking member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution in the Senate Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in the 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis case. Sen. Cruz said, “Today, the Supreme Court rightly decided that Colorado’s state law unconstitutionally restricts the fundamental First Amendment rights of business owners. Before today’s ruling, the state of Colorado...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released a statement today following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in the casesStudents for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina. Sen. Cruz said, “Today, the Supreme Court upheld the 14thAmendment rights of Asian-Americans and ruled that Harvard and the University of North Carolina’s explicit and egregious policies of racially discriminating against...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, today issued the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in Groff v. DeJoy: “Today, the Supreme Court rightly reaffirmed religious liberty, ruling that the USPS, under the leadership of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy, had failed to adequately accommodate postal carrier Gerald Groff’s ability to observe the Sabbath, as his...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today led a bicameral, bipartisan coalition of federal lawmakers representing Texas border communities in sending a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken urging him to resolve delays in providing permits for key cross-border bridge projects between the United States and Mexico in Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, Texas. Joining Sen. Cruz in sending the letter are Sen. John Cornyn, and U.S....

Good Evening, I began last weekend out in Perryton, Texas, joining the community in the aftermath of the tornado there, participating in a brief with local and state officials, speaking with Perryton residents, and helping clean up. Read more here. On Fox News Tonight with Kaleigh McEnany I spoke about Hunter Biden’s sweetheart deal with the Department of Justice. If Hunter had the last name “Smith” or any other last name, he would have been met with the full force of the law...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement after the Biden administration instated a boycott against scientific and technological cooperation with Jews living in Judea and Samaria. Sen. Cruz said, “Joe Biden and Biden administration officials are pathologically obsessed with undermining Israel. Since day one of their administration they have launched campaigns against our Israeli allies that are...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the wake of Ford’s recent announcement that it will keep AM radio in its 2024 vehicles, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today sent a bipartisan letter to seven automakers that have either removed or plan to remove broadcast AM radio in their current and future vehicle models, including electric vehicles (EVs). The letter urges the automakers to make a commitment to keep AM radio in their...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and nine of theirSenate colleagues sent a letter to Chairman Phillips and Commissioners urging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to investigate the actions of BlackRock, the world's largest asset manager, regarding its commitments to the Commission and its influence on utility operations. The letter follows a motion filed at FERC by a coalition of 17 states urging federal energy regulators to review BlackRock Inc's...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today praised the Senate’s passage of his bipartisan legislation to help combat the rise in illicit use of the dangerous animal tranquilizer xylazine, or tranq. The Testing, Rapid Analysis, and Narcotic Quality (TRANQ) Research Act, which Sen. Cruz introduced with Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), directs the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to take steps to enhance understanding of tranq...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced a bill to move up the date by which the position of Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) becomes a Senate-approved position. Currently, the CDC Director is directly appointed by the president without Senate confirmation, but the position is scheduled to become a Senate-confirmed position starting in January 2025. Sen. Cruz’s bill, the CDC Accountability Act, would make this position Senate...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rep. Stephanie Bice (R-Okla.) reintroduced Kate’s Law, bicameral legislation which was first introduced in July 2015. The legislation is named in memory of Kate Steinle, a 32-year-old woman tragically shot and killed by an illegal alien who had several felony convictions and had been deported from the United States five times. This bill would amend federal law to impose a mandatory minimum sentence of five years for any person who has...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Ranking Member John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) are leading a coalition of Senate Republican committee ranking members in sounding the alarm over an attempt by the White House to hijack the rulemaking process to advance left-wing policy goals that have been rejected by Congress. In a letter to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), the...