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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ranking Member of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, sent a letter to Patricia de Stacy Harrison, the President and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), questioning her about taxpayer-funded National Public Radio’s (NPR) reporting, which has become increasingly liberal and partisan in recent years. NPR receives taxpayer funding through CPB. CPB falls under the jurisdiction of the Senate Commerce...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined Sens. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and Angus King (I-Maine) in introducing a bipartisan resolution marking April 20th through April 28th as National Parks Week for 2024 which was passed unanimously by the U.S. Senate. The resolution encourages people from across the country to visit, experience, recreate in, and support America’s treasured national parks. Upon passage, Sen. Cruz said, “America is home to some of the most beautiful natural...

Midland, Texas – In Case You Missed It: Today, the Midland Reporter-Telegram published an op-ed by James Beauchap, president of the Midland-Odessa Transportation Alliance, about the importance of legislation bringing I-27 into the federal highway program. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, authored the legislation, now law, that accomplished this. In his op-ed, Beauchamp wrote, “Years ago, while we were working to build...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement after voting against cloture on today’s foreign aid package: “This is one of the toughest votes I’ve cast during my years in the Senate. It was a close call, because there are good elements in the bill that I strongly support. First, as always, I strongly support military aid to Israel, particularly in a time of war. That’s why several Republican senators and I went...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined Sens. Steve Daines (R-Mont.) and Angus King (I-Maine) in introducing a bipartisan resolution marking April 20th through April 28th as National Parks Week for 2024 which was passed unanimously by the U.S. Senate. The resolution encourages people from across the country to visit, experience, recreate in, and support America’s treasured national parks. Upon passage, Sen. Cruz said, “America is home to some of the most beautiful natural...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, and Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) celebrated the Senate passage of their bipartisan and bicameral Federal Judiciary Stabilization Act by unanimous consent. Their bill would transition ten temporary federal judgeships to permanent status in order to maintain the current level of access to the federal court for millions of Americans across the nation....

Good Afternoon, Under the reckless leadership of U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, our country has fallen victim to a criminal invasion at our southern border. Mayorkas has deliberately aided and abetted this invasion, but now that the House of Representatives has impeached him and is sending over the articles of impeachment to the Senate next week, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is hell bent on shirking the Senate’s constitutional responsibility to conduct a trial. I held a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, today voted against reauthorizing Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for two years. Sen. Cruz voted for an amendment that would have required federal government agencies to get a warrant in order to view Americans’ private communications collected using FISA Section 702 authority. About the votes, Sen. Cruz said, “Last...

Good Evening, Our country was founded upon the principles of law and order, but this week Senate Democrats looked the American people dead in the eye and told them they truly don’t care about the Constitution, the rule of law, or the safety and security of our country and its citizens when they dismissed the articles of impeachment against Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Make no mistake—this is a deliberate. They threw the articles of impeachment out the window because they...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) urging for an extension of time to Delfin LNG LLC’s approval to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to European and Asian countries due to inaction on the Delfin project by other federal agencies. The senators’ letter follows the Biden administration’s deference to the radical climate lobby, instituting a pause on all pending non-Free Trade Agreement (FTA) export permit...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, today condemned Senate Democrats for ignoring the Constitution and over 200 years of precedent by refusing to hold an impeachment trial for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Sen. Cruz said, “It’s the Senate’s duty to hold a court of impeachment when articles of impeachment have been sent from the House of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on The Constitution, joined Senate Republican colleagues and House impeachment managers for a press conference laying out the evidence of U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas’s lawlessness and calling on Majority Leader Chuck Schumer to follow the Constitution and hold a trial in the Senate. During the press conference, Sen. Cruz said, “We’ve just...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, commended Samsung for securing up to $6.4 billion in federal funding towards their Taylor and Austin, Texas semiconductor manufacturing facilities. The award is expected to create over 20,000 jobs in the area. “Today’s announcement confirms Texas remains the single best location for companies to grow and thrive. But to fully accomplish the national security...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement today after Iran escalated its attacks on Israel by launching munitions from Iranian territory.   Sen. Cruz said, “Iran has encircled Israel and has been attacking our Israeli allies from almost every front for months. They have launched attacks from Syria, Iraq, Yemen, the West Bank, Hezbollah-controlled Lebanon, and of course the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. Now...

Good Afternoon, Last week, as the Senate considered spending legislation to fund large portions of the government, I fought for an amendment to stop Democrats from sending billions to Iran — a country that routinely chants death to America and death to Israel. Unsurprisingly, Democrats voted to keep sending money to a nation that is the largest state-sponsor of terrorism.I also introduced two amendments relating to wildfire relief to the spending package before the Senate. The amendments were...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, praised Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s speech to a joint session of Congress yesterday. PM Kishida highlighted the strategic significance of the U.S.-Japan alliance. This year marks the 60th anniversary of a defense training partnership between the two countries that brings Japanese Self-Defense Forces to Fort Bliss, Texas, to train on missile defense systems. Sen. Cruz said, “The...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on The Constitution, gave a Senate floor speech this afternoon blasting Senate Democrats’ effort to defy precedent and skip the required impeachment trial for U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) blocked Sen. Cruz’s effort to establish, by unanimous consent of the Senate, a committee to hold an impeachment trial. During his...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Mike Lee (R-Utah), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, penned an op-ed arguing that efforts by Senate Democrats to end impeachment proceedings for Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas without a trial are unconstitutional and a violation of Senate rules. The op-ed ran in the Wall Street Journal and can be read here. In the piece, the Senators wrote: “The Constitution, Senate rules and precedent are clear: The Senate has an...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, & Transportation, Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), and U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.), joined several of their House and Senate Republican colleagues in filing a bicameral amicus curiae brief in the D.C. Circuit in support of state and industry challengers of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) so-called “Good Neighbor” air rule that targets...