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WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), were joined by 42 Republican colleagues in urging President Joe Biden to stand with our closest ally in the region, Israel. As Israel is under attack from Iranian-back terrorists, the Biden administration is negotiating and potentially offering sanctions relief to Iran, the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. The senators called on President Biden to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-Wis.) this week introduced the Israeli Sovereignty Reassurance Act of 2021 (ISRA), legislation to prohibit the State Department from reversing the U.S. recognition of Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights. Sen. Cruz led the fight for President Trump to formally recognize Israel's sovereignty over the territory in 2019, but President Biden's administration has signaled a willingness to reverse the decision, putting...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today issued the following statement after the nomination of Kristen Clarke to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division was advanced out of committee. "Kristen Clarke is completely unfit to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division. She has made her brazen disdain for law enforcement clear by her calls to defund the police and troubling history of advocacy...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today applauded the committee's vote to include in the Endless Frontiers Act his amendment facilitating cooperation with our close friends and allies-Israel, Taiwan, and Five Eyes nations-and excluding nations that engage in discriminatory boycott, divestment, and sanctioning (BDS) efforts against the State of Israel and Jews living anywhere in Israel. Upon adoption of his...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today applauded the adoption of his amendment to the Endless Frontiers Act building on his previous bill, the Blocking Evasive Attempts to Manipulate Signals or BEAMS Act, to prevent the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from exploiting Federal Communications Commission (FCC) loopholes in order to propagandize to Americans through stations entangled with Chinese state-owned media...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today applauded the committee's vote to include a provision of his previously introduced ORE Act in the final passage of the Endless Frontiers Act. The amendment authorizes $100 million for projects aimed at producing and reclaiming rare earth elements and other critical minerals, with the aim of ending the United States' dependence on China. Upon adoption of his amendment,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today joined Sens. Rick Scott (R-Fla.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, City of Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls, and National Border Patrol Council President Brandon Judd in urging President Biden to address the current humanitarian crisis at our southern border and end the radical immigration policies that created it. Read excerpts of Sen. Cruz's remarks at...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) today led a group of 14 Republican senators in a letter to the international business community warning them about resuming business with Iran if U.S. sanctions are lifted. In the letter, the senators wrote: "Your member companies may see this potential removal of U.S. sanctions on Iran as a lucrative opportunity. Trust us, they should not. If U.S. sanctions on Iran were...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today delivered opening remarks at the Senate Rules Committee meeting on the Democrats' radical S.1. bill, ‘The Corrupt Politicians Act,' and his 46 proposed amendments to protect election security. Read his full opening remarks below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: S.1. is the Most Radical Legislation Pending Before the United States Congress "This legislation, I believe, is the most radical legislation the Senate has considered in the nine years I've...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today delivered remarks at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on ‘ghost guns'-an unhelpful term used for homemade firearms-and Democrats' efforts to propose restrictions on Second Amendment rights while ignoring the growing violence in Democrat-run cities. Highlights of his remarks are below. WATCH: Democrats Using ‘Ghost Guns' to Distract From Failure of Gun Control Policies in Democrat Cities On the issue of so-called ‘ghost...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) this week joined Fox News' 'Hannity' and 'America's Newsroom' to discuss Democrats' dangerous S.1. bill before the Senate Rules Committee today. Better known as the Corrupt Politicians Act, S.1. would effectively destroy the integrity of our elections and cement Democrat power for decades. Highlights of his interviews are below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz on Fox News: SR 1 Is a Massive Democrat Power Grab & The Most Dangerous Bill in Congress On...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement after the Iran-supported Palestinian terror group Hamas claimed responsibility for rocket attacks against Israel's capital Jerusalem: "Today's reprehensible missile attack comes after days of heightened anti-Semitic incitement and violence driven by Palestinian leaders and the Iranian regime, including Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. "In recent days...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Todd Young (R-Ind.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), today sent a letter to SFRC Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) urging a hold of the Congressional notification to move $2.5 million of taxpayer funds to establish John Kerry's new Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, until the former Secretary of State answers the senators' questions on his reported...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released the following statement after the Texas House of Representatives passed SB 7, a voting rights bill: "Today, the Texas House passed SB 7 on second reading, a bill to safeguard our elections in Texas, despite immense pressure from woke corporations and the liberal media. The bill protects the voting rights of 29 million Texans and would make our elections in Texas more accessible and more secure. When Texans go to cast a vote, that vote should...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today penned an op-ed for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram detailing big business' discrimination against the Texas oil and gas industry in the name of climate change and the Texas legislature's fight to protect energy jobs against the woke mob with the passage of SB 13. In the op-ed, Sen. Cruz wrote: "In response, Texas lawmakers are putting Main Street over Wall Street. State Sen. Brian Birdwell, R-Granbury, filed Senate Bill 13, which would direct the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today congratulated the Texas House for taking action on SB 13. "I applaud Texas legislators today for taking a strong stand against woke corporations and putting Main Street over Wall Street. In the past few years, we've seen a dangerous shift in America. Powerful CEOs have made the decision to use their companies to enforce the political agenda of today's Democratic Party, which is controlled by the radical Left. "Big Business isn't just wielding...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) today introduced the World Bank Integrity Preservation Act of 2021, legislation to curb China's access to the World Bank's low-rate debt financing intended for developing nations. Upon introduction, Sen. Cruz said: "China poses the single greatest geopolitical threat to the United States over the next...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) this week introduced the Transparency to Rehabilitate United States Treaties with Mexico Act of 2021 (TRUST With Mexico Act), a bill that would require the Secretary of State to provide to Congress a report describing actions taken by the Mexican government that violate the U.S.-Mexico Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance, the responsible parties, and effects those actions...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) this week led a group of 18 other senators in a letter to Jeffrey Bezos questioning why Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words, a documentary about the life of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was removed from Amazon's streaming service. The film's removal came during Black History Month. Co-signers of the letter include Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), John...