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WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) this week delivered remarks on the Senate floor slamming Democrat leadership in the House of Representatives for threatening to arrest those not wearing masks and the Biden administration's vaccine mandate proposal for all federal employees. Read excerpts of his remarks below. WATCH: Cruz on the Senate Floor: Pelosi Mask Mandates are Unprecedented, Abusive "We're surrounded by men and women who've chosen to come and work for the public good. And...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the following statement in opposition to the Biden administration's plan to implement a vaccine mandate for all federal employees: "President Biden's new vaccine mandate for federal employees is a brazen example of how the Left is politicizing science in the service of their authoritarian instincts. Vaccines mandates violate our rights to medical privacy and autonomy, and they are the start...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today released the following statement after voting for the emergency supplemental spending bill: "After January 6, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer made the cynical decision to try to exploit that violent event for political advantage. What followed was months of political theater with the Capitol surrounded by a chain-link fence and razor wire, thousands of National Guardsmen visibly stationed (most without bullets), and Capitol Police required to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today participated in a committee markup on three bills, one of which seeks to create a fund for global health initiatives. Sen. Cruz introduced two amendments to prevent the federal government from creating a vaccine passport system and vaccine database to track Americans based on their vaccination status. Read excerpts of his remarks below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: CDC Making Decisions Based on...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) today introduced the Protecting our Pharmaceutical Supply Chain from China Act, which would end U.S. dependence on China for pharmaceutical manufacturing. Upon introduction, Sen. Cruz said: "American dependence on Chinese supply chains is not only a health threat but a national security threat. During the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sent a letter to President Biden calling on him to deny entry visas to Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi and other senior Iranian officials to attend the U.N. General Assembly in September. Sen. Cruz has long fought to block Iranian officials who are responsible for human...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) today issued a joint statement on the bipartisan infrastructure framework. "Congress can't keep spending trillions of dollars we don't have. The infrastructure package announced today continues the trend in Congress of insane deficit spending. Let's not forget, this is just the first step in the Democrats' plan to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today introduced the Defense of Environment and Property Act of 2021 to get the government off the backs of farmers and landowners. The legislation restores common sense to federal water policy by redefining "navigable waters," excluding ephemeral or intermittent streams from federal jurisdiction, and restraining the power the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers hold...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned the U.S. Department of Justice Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Division, Richard Downing, on the Biden administration's weak response to numerous cyber-attacks by China and Russia. Excerpts of his line of questioning are below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: America's Critical Infrastructure Should Be off-Limits to Russian Hacking In his line of questioning, Sen. Cruz said:...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz today released the following statement in response to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) new mask mandate announcement: "Today's decision, sadly, was driven by politics, not science. Let me be clear: there should be no more COVID mandates, no mask mandates, no vaccine mandates, no vaccine passports, no lockdowns, and no school closures. Enough is enough. The CDC has lost its credibility when it comes to what decisions Americans should...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) sent a letter to President Biden urging him to respond to the People's Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyberattacks with sanctions similar to those implemented against Russian entities. The Senators also demand answers regarding how the Administration will protect the U.S. from further cyberattacks. In a Judiciary...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released the following statement after the passing of former Sen. Mike Enzi (R-Wyo.): "Today we lift up Sen. Mike Enzi and his entire family in prayer in the wake of his sudden passing. Mike was joyful, hardworking, and so profoundly dedicated to bettering the lives of Wyomingites throughout his life. Heidi and I extend our deepest condolences to Mike's wife of over 50 years, Diana, their three children, and four grandchildren as we mourn his...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and Mike Lee (R-Utah) today filed an amicus brief in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, urging the Supreme Court to overrule its decisions in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. The brief argues that the Supreme Court's abortion jurisprudence finds no basis in the Constitution, and points out that the "undue burden"...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) continues to lead the fight against federal mask mandates and vaccine passports. Highlights of his push against the Biden administration's authoritarian guidelines are below. WATCH: ICYMI: Sen. Cruz on the Ingraham Angle Sen. Cruz joined Fox News' ‘Ingraham Angle' to push back against Democrats' narrative that masks are necessary for every American: "I think it should be simple. There should be no mandates. No vaccine mandates, and no mask...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), and 18 of their colleagues this week introduced the Federal Firearms Licensee (FFL) Protection Act of 2021 to address the increasing number of "smash-and-grab" thefts targeted at federally licensed gun dealers. Co-sponsors of this bill include Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Tom...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today penned an op-ed for the Washington Examiner on Biden and Harris' capitulation to Putin over the Russian pipeline Nord Stream 2, which if completed would vastly strengthen Russia at the expense of the national security of America and our allies. In the op-ed, Sen. Cruz said: "This decision is a total surrender to Putin. It is a multibillion-dollar gift that will keep on giving in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Mike Braun (R-Ind.) this week introduced legislation to reduce the more than $28 trillion of debt held by the general public and curb unjustified spending at the federal level. The Zero Based Budget Act would cut wasteful spending and reduce U.S. debt by requiring government agencies to justify their spending levels every six years with a zero-based budget and propose a reduction in expenditures by 2...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, this week delivered remarks on the Senate floor in support of law enforcement and called out Congressional Democrats and members of the Biden administration for leading the charge to defund the police as crime rates rise in major cities. Read his full remarks below. WATCH: Cruz: Dems Have Called to Defund the Police, They're Trying to Blame Republicans for Rise in Crime "I rise today to discuss facts and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today questioned the U.S. State Department's Under Secretary for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland on the Biden administration's capitulation to Putin on the Russian pipeline Nord Stream 2, which if completed would vastly strengthen Russia at the expense of the national security of America and our allies. Excerpts of his line of questioning are below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: Biden Administration Admits...