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HOUSTON, Texas - With oil prices nosediving by nearly 70 percent and global demand collapsed, the COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc on America's energy producers. To make matters worse, financial institutions and lenders have limited energy producers' critical access to capital, under pressure from Green New Deal enthusiasts. If this continues, the U.S. risks bankrupting a vast majority of its roughly 9,000 energy producers, adding hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers to the...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), and a group of 16 senators on Tuesday sent a letter urging Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell, and Small Business Administration (SBA) Administrator Jovita Carranza, to protect Second Amendment-related industries from discrimination by financial institutions. In the letter, they wrote: "Several of the nation's systemically important financial institutions use their market dominance to...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today announced his intention to introduce the "The Stopping Censorship, Restoring Integrity, Protecting Talkies Act" or SCRIPT Act, legislation cutting off Hollywood studios from assistance they receive from the Department of Defense if those studios censor their films for screening in China. This legislation is part of Sen. Cruz's comprehensive push to combat China's growing influence over what...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), along with Senate colleagues, on Friday urged Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt, to support the development of a fully domestic rare earths supply chain and reduce U.S. dependence on foreign minerals that are critical for manufacturing our defense technologies and supporting our national security. In the letters to the secretaries, the senators wrote: "It is clear that our dependence on China for vital...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement in response to media reports that the Trump administration is moving to invoke the snapback mechanism in United Nations Security Council Resolution 2231: "I applaud the Trump administration for advancing toward finally and irreversibly ending the catastrophic Obama-Iran nuclear deal. I have long called for invoking the snapback mechanism, and it is absolutely...

HOUSTON, Texas - Following reports this week that more than 26 million Americans have filed for unemployment as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Friday appeared on Fox Business' "Varney & Co." and Fox News' "The Daily Briefing," to talk about his priorities for re-opening the economy and safely getting the American people back to work. Excerpts of Sen. Cruz's interviews are below. ON GETTING TEXANS BACK TO WORK "I'm glad Texas is moving forward with...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today announced his intention to introduce legislation preventing the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) from exploiting Federal Communications Commission (FCC) loopholes to propagandize to Americans from radio stations in Mexico or Canada, including through stations entangled with Chinese state-owned media outlets such as Phoenix TV. Upon announcing the legislation, Sen. Cruz said: "China should not be...

HOUSTON, Texas - With many of America's energy producers on the brink of bankruptcy and millions of jobs hanging in the balance as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas ) today sent a letter urging U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to ensure America's small and independent oil and gas producers have critical access to capital to keep their wells operational, their doors open, and their employees on payroll. In the...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), David Perdue (R-Ga.) and 14 senators sent a letter expressing concerns with the impact that deteriorating global market conditions caused by COVID-19 will have on developing countries and the potential geopolitical implications of relief efforts. While the senators support efforts to provide aid for developing countries, in a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, they cautioned that the U.S. must be wary of...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined Jim Risch (R-Idaho) today in sending a letter to United Nations (UN) Secretary General António Guterres requesting that the UN convene an independent panel of experts to conduct a review of the World Health Organization's (WHO) response to the COVID-19 global pandemic. Sens. Cruz and Risch were joined by Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Mitt Romney (R-Utah), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John...

HOUSTON, Texas - Human trials began this week for a possible coronavirus vaccine developed by the United Kingdom's Oxford University - potentially a ‘vital breakthrough' that could help stop the spread of this deadly pandemic. With more than 192,019 lives lost to the coronavirus since the outbreak was first reported in Wuhan, China, many countries with proven regulatory systems like the U.K. are racing to develop vaccines and treatments to protect people from contacting the disease and...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and 26 Senate Republican colleagues sent a letter in support of Attorney General William Barr's efforts to prioritize public safety as the Department of Justice seeks to address the consequences of the coronavirus in federal prisons. In the letter they wrote: "We understand that BOP is responding to address the impact of COVID-19 on correctional officers and inmates, and DOJ is using its authorities to allow for...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), and colleagues in the Senate sent a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette, and Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Tuesday urging them to make credit facilities accessible to domestic energy producers. In the letter they wrote: "We face a real and present danger of seeing hundreds, if not thousands of oil producers shuttering, an event that will profoundly and negatively impact...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Fox News' ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight' spoke about President Trump's decision to temporarily halt legal immigration as the country works to stop the spread of the coronavirus, safely re-open the economy, and get the American people back to work. WATCH: Cruz on Tucker Carlson: Right Now We Need to Keep Americans Safe & Help Them Get Their Jobs Back As Sen. Cruz said during the interview: "We ought to have two priorities. Protecting American...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued a statement following the Senate's passage of additional funding for the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP): "The Paycheck Protection Program has provided significant relief to American small businesses and hardworking men and women who are hurting badly as a result of this unprecedented economic devastation. "But since Thursday, the program has been unable to provide this relief, because Speaker Pelosi and Sen. Schumer cynically blocked...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today sent a letter to Jovita Carranza, Administrator for the Small Business Administration (SBA), requesting access for Chambers of Commerce and other 501(c)(6) organizations to the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) once it's replenished. This comes after week two of Sen. Cruz's statewide tele-tour, where he has spoken with men and women in 27 cities, including members of Chambers of Commerce, who have raised this concern. The PPP, which...

HOUSTON, Texas - In his new op-ed in the Dallas Morning News, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who has been tapped to join the President's bipartisan task force to re-open the economy, discusses the energy crisis Texans are facing, the impact it is having on the economy, and the importance of helping Texans return safely to work. As Sen. Cruz writes: "The best way to protect America's energy industry and the millions of jobs it supports is to help Texans safely return to work and get the economy...

Greetings,  On Friday, I wrapped up another week of my statewide tele-tour, where I've been able to connect on video conferences and over the phone with Texans in 27 different cities. This week, I spoke with men and women on the frontlines of this pandemic in Lubbock, Abilene, San Angelo, Rio Grande Valley, Laredo, Corpus Christi, San Antonio, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, Wichita Falls, El Paso, Odessa, Waco, and the Bryan / College Station area. I had the opportunity to talk...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today completed another week of his statewide tele-tour across 27 cities to connect with communities combatting COVID-19 and the economic devastation that has followed. Sen. Cruz, who has been tapped to join President Trump's bipartisan task force to re-open the economy, kicked off this week with phone calls and video conferences with members of the Lubbock Chamber of Commerce, Abilene Chamber of Commerce, San Angelo Chamber of Commerce, and Texas...