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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Democrats blocked U.S. Senator Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) motion today that would have protected students in Washington, D.C. public schools from the city’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. This mandate blocks unvaccinated schoolkids 12-to-15-years-of-age, primarily minorities, from attending school in-person, which will have a further detrimental impact on students. Before the vote on the motion on the Senate floor, Sen. Cruz said: “In D.C. the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Democrats blocked U.S. Senator Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) amendment today to the Schumer-Manchin Tax-and-Spend Bill to block Strategic Petroleum Reserve sales to China. Sen. Cruz’s amendment would block the United States from selling our emergency crude oil stockpile to China, following news that President Biden had sold at least two million barrels of American crude oil from our strategic stockpile to the Chinese Communist Party’s...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Democrats blocked a motion by U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today to the Schumer-Manchin Tax-and-Spend Bill to protect parents from being unfairly targeted by the FBI for exercising their rights and speaking out about their children’s education. Sen. Cruz’s motion to commit would have blocked the Department of Justice and the FBI from using their resources to inappropriately target parents or classify them as “domestic...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) made the following statement after voting against the Democrats’ so-called “Inflation Reduction Act,” a massive and radical spending bill crafted by Senators Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.): “The Schumer-Manchin bill will drive up inflation and prices, hammer small businesses and American manufacturing, increase the price of gas, and sic the IRS on Americans, all while raising taxes on Americans in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), in conjunction with Senators Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Bill Hagerty (R-TN), and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) introduced the Asylum Accountability Act. This legislation would impose a significant increase in the penalty for illegal aliens who fail to appear in immigration court by permanently barring them from gaining any future benefit under the Immigration and Nationality Act. The unsustainable increase in illegal...

Greetings, As my team and I come to the end of the fourth week of session in the Senate, we are in the middle of a fight on President Biden’s Schumer-Manchin-revived Build Back Broke tax-and-spend package. If you drive a pickup truck, suburban, or minivan and are already struggling to fill up your gas tanks, this bill will make it worse. It contains new energy taxes that violate Biden’s pledge of no new taxes on the middle class. The Schumer-Manchin bill also contains provisions that...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made the following statement about his vote for a resolution endorsing Finland and Sweden ascending to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO): “Joe Biden’s appeasement policies have made our global challenges into acute threats to American national security. His catastrophic withdrawal from Afghanistan and his inexplicable decision to greenlight Vladimir Putin’s...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today introduced the Catch Up Our Kids Act of 2022, legislation that would combat K-12 learning loss that American children incurred due to school closures during the COVID-19 pandemic. Nearly every K-12 school switched to remote learning in the Spring of 2020, not returning to in-person learning until Fall 2020 at the earliest, and for many it was longer. Because of this, students fell behind in math and reading, and low-income...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released the following statement after voting to pass the PACT Act and help our nation’s veterans: “I’m proud to support the PACT Act and all our nation’s veterans. While I ultimately supported the bill, because we need to take care of our veterans who have sacrificed so much to keep us safe, I’m disappointed that we couldn’t come together to fix the Democrat-created budget gimmick that will allow...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), released the following statement in response to reports of the Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s death: “This is an important accomplishment. All Americans will breathe easier today knowing Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of Al-Qaeda, has been eliminated. This strike should be a message to terrorists near and far: if you conspire to kill Americans, we will find and kill...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today introduced a Sense of the Senate Resolution detailing the Biden Administration’s failed border policies, and explaining how these policy decisions have created the illegal immigration and drug crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border. The resolution also describes what actually happened along the border in Del Rio last year, when mounted Border Patrol officers were falsely accused of “whipping” illegal immigrants. About this...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz released the following statement after voting to support the 2022 Water Resources Development Act, which included numerous provisions to help Texas that he and his staff worked to ensure were included in the bill. “Strong coastal protection and water infrastructure is vital not just for the Texas Gulf Coast, but for the economy of the entire Lone Star State. I was proud to fight for the needs of Texans, and make sure that the Houston and Corpus...

Greetings Heading into the third week of July session in the Senate, the weather is hot and the days are long as I work to support the millions of Texans in the sweltering heat back home.Democrats can’t take the heat that they’re receiving in response to their botched “green energy” plan and tax and spend policies, so they’re trying to redefine the meaning of words in order to convince the American people that our economy is strong. Thursday morning, the Bureau of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) issued the following statement after this morning’s release by the Bureau of Economic Analysis indicating that the U.S. economy has officially entered a period of recession. Sen. Cruz said: “Despite the brazen gaslighting from this administration and their cronies in the corrupt corporate media, we are in fact now in the Biden recession thanks to reckless spending by Democrats. It’s time for this White House to take...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Commerce Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement regarding his no vote on the CHIPS-Plus bill:  “Our dependence on semiconductors manufactured abroad is a serious vulnerability. Right now, an enormous amount of the most complex semiconductors are built in Taiwan, where they are vulnerable to everything from natural disasters to Chinese aggression. That’s why...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), along with Sens. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), have introduced a resolution to cement the historic definition of an economic recession. Historically, an economic recession has been defined as two consecutive negative quarters of GDP growth. About the resolution Sen. Cruz said: “The Biden White House is undertaking an Orwellian effort that ignores history in order to try to redefine the actual definition of the term...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is co-sponsoring legislation to authorize the construction of the coastal barrier protection system, which would mitigate the impact of major hurricanes and other significant water events in and around the Texas coast—and the vast petrochemical industry that surrounds it. U.S. Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced the Senate companion to U.S. Rep. Randy Weber’s (R-Texas) legislation. About the bills Senator Cruz...

Greetings, Following a successful trip to the border, my boots are back on the ground in Washington, D.C. Better yet, this week I was accompanied by a very special guest, my daughter Catherine. As much as I enjoy visiting with Texans in our nation’s capital, nothing tops showing around one who calls me “Dad,” even if she steals my desk from time to time… As promised, I wanted to provide a more complete update on the situation at our southern border. President Biden has...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz introduced a bill to reimpose terrorism sanctions on the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). The bill re-designates the FARC as a Foreign Terrorist Organization and a Specially Designated Global Terrorist. The bill is co-sponsored by Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL). After introducing the bill, Sen. Cruz said: “The Biden Administration’s reckless decision to dismantle terrorism sanctions on the FARC has already created...