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HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Subcommittee on The Constitution, today, on the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth, hosted a roundtable discussion with Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner on improving the relationship between law enforcement and the community they serve. Addressing local law enforcement and community leaders, Sen. Cruz said: "None of us have ever faced a confluence of challenges like this before. We're all dealing with a...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released the following statement recognizing the 155th anniversary of Juneteenth, when Major General Gordon Granger announced in Galveston, Texas that the Civil War was over and enslaved people were now free: "Juneteenth is an important day. It's a sober reminder of the original sin of slavery that our nation inherited from colonial powers, but it is also a celebration of the fact that our country strives each day to make good on its promise to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Subcommittee on The Constitution, today delivered remarks on the Senate Floor following the Supreme Court's decision regarding DACA. WATCH: Cruz Condemns SCOTUS Decision on DACA, Chief Justice Roberts' Pattern of Lawless Gamesmanship Condemning the Supreme Court's decision, led by Chief Justice John Roberts, Sen. Cruz said: "Mr. President, today's decision from the U.S. Supreme Court in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - With small businesses working to re-open their doors, it's never been more important to equip job creators with the resources they need to jumpstart the economy. That's why U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced a bill to expand the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to local chambers of commerce, which provide valuable resources to small businesses across the country, as well as Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs), which...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - After blasting Google's politically motivated targeting of a conservative news outlet in a scathing letter to CEO Sundar Pichai, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Subcommittee on The Constitution, appeared on Fox Business' "Mornings with Maria," and Fox News' "The Daily Briefing" and "Fox & Friends" to discuss how Big Tech's pattern of political bias poses a real threat to freedom of speech and democracy. Excerpts from his interviews are below. ON GOOGLE'S...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Aviation and Space Subcommittee, today participated in a Senate Commerce Committee hearing with Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Administrator Stephen Dickson regarding the 737 MAX crashes that took the lives of 346 innocent people. During Sen. Cruz's line of questioning, Administrator Dickson admitted that the FAA and Boeing made mistakes that allowed the crashes to happen. Watch the full exchange here. Excerpts are...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, this week questioned members of the law enforcement community, local officials, and civil rights advocates at a full committee hearing examining police use of force and community relations. Today, he released a new video ‘Standing for Justice & Unity,' urging Americans to remember the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: Impugning the Integrity of Everyone in Law Enforcement Does a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Senadores Ted Cruz (R-Texas), miembro del Comité de Relaciones Exteriores del Senado, Rich Scott (R-Fla.), y Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), presentaron hoy el proyecto de ley Detener las Ganancias del Régimen Cubano, el cual le requerirá al Departamento de Estado publicar la lista de países que tienen contratos con el régimen cubano para su programa abusivo y coactivo de "misiones médicas" y que el Departamento de Estado considere esto como un...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today introduced the Cut Profits to the Cuban Regime Act, which will require the Department of State to publish the list of countries that contract with the Cuban regime for their abusive and coercive medical missions program, and to consider that a factor on their ranking in the State Department's annual Trafficking in Persons report. The Cuban regime...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) today introduced the Equal Access to Care Act - legislation to expand access to telemedicine during the coronavirus emergency period by allowing licensed health care providers to treat patients over the phone and online wherever the patient is located. Upon introducing the bill, Sen. Cruz said: "Expanding healthcare access in the communities hit hardest by the coronavirus pandemic is crucial to our nation's recovery....

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Subcommittee on The Constitution, today sent a letter to Google CEO Sundar Pichai raising concerns about Google's latest actions to censor political speech with which it disagrees. Following reports that The Federalist, a conservative media organization and publisher, would no longer be able to generate revenue from any advertisement served by Google Ads - allegedly because of a reader comment that violated Google's advertising...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today delivered remarks on the Senate Floor urging Americans to remember Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s call for unity and justice. After the Senate's bipartisan reading of Dr. King's letter from a Birmingham jail on the Senate Floor, Sen. Cruz said: "Today is a time every American should look back at the incredible call to justice that Dr. King gave us. This is a time where our nation is grieving. This is a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today introduced the Work Safe Act, legislation that would provide tax credits to businesses that test employees for COVID-19 every week in states where the infection rates are above the national average. This comes amid fears that a second wave of the virus could hurt economic recovery as businesses start to re-open all over the country. Upon introducing the bill, Sen. Cruz said: "As businesses re-open and states navigate the next steps in their...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Aviation and Space Subcommittee, Todd Young (R-Ind.), and Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.), ranking member on the Aviation and Space Subcommittee, on Monday introduced the Expedited Delivery of Airport Infrastructure Act to incentivize more efficient completion of airport construction projects - saving taxpayer dollars and ensuring the safe and swift completion of economy boosting infrastructure projects. The Federal Aviation...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) today sent a letter to U.S. Governors requesting information on how their states have allocated the trillions of dollars in taxpayer funding from the CARES Act and other federal coronavirus response measures. This taxpayer money is designed to be spent on coronavirus response to support those in need, and taxpayers deserve to know how this money is being spent. The full letter can be read here and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - With only a 100 miles of pipe left to install in the Baltic Sea, Russian-owned companies are working to circumvent U.S. sanctions and complete President Vladimir Putin's pipeline, Nord Stream 2 - a project that if completed would reward Russia's aggressive expansionism and economic blackmail, hold our European allies' energy security hostage to Russia, and undermine America's national security interests. That's why U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.),...

FORT WORTH, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today joined Air Force Secretary Barbara Barrett and Rep. Kay Granger (R-Texas) for a tour of Lockheed Martin's F-35 facility. There, Sen. Cruz met with outgoing Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson and incoming CEO James Taiclet about Lockheed Martin's F-35 aircraft production and its efforts to adapt operations amid the coronavirus pandemic. On the F-35's role in protecting U.S. national security interests and Lockheed Martin's impact on Texas,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Susan Collins (R-Maine) today released the following statements after the Senate unanimously approved their resolution calling for the immediate release of Cuban democracy activist José Daniel Ferrer. Mr. Ferrer was imprisoned on October 1, 2019 and arbitrarily convicted on April 3, 2020 to a sentence of four years and six months. The bipartisan...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), and their colleagues in the Senate today sent a bipartisan letter urging the Department of the Treasury and the Small Business Administration (SBA) to simplify the loan forgiveness application for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). A streamlined loan forgiveness application will help lenders efficiently process applications and ensure small businesses, that have continued to support their employees during the coronavirus...