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WASHINGTON, D.C. —Today, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), along with Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), issued a joint statement calling for H.R. 3762, the current reconciliation bill in the House of Representatives, to be amended to include a full repeal of Obamacare. Read the entire statement below and here. “On Friday the House of Representatives is set to vote on a reconciliation bill that repeals only parts of Obamacare. This simply isn’t good enough. Each of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. —Today, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) spoke on the Senate floor requesting unanimous consent on his resolution to rename the plaza in front of the Chinese Embassy in Washington, D.C. as “Liu Xiaobo Plaza,” after Dr. Liu Xiaobo. Dr. Liu is a Chinese dissident and Nobel Peace Prize winner who has been imprisoned for peacefully advocating for the basic political freedom denied to the Chinese people by the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Sen. Chuck Grassley...

WASHINGTON, D.C. —U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on Wednesday reintroduced Kate’s Law and placed the bill directly on the Senate calendar, making it immediately available for floor action. Today, Sen. Cruz intends to ask for Kate’s Law to be called up and passed by unanimous consent. Sen. Cruz introduced Kate’s Law, or the Establishing Mandatory Minimums for Illegal Reentry Act of 2015, earlier this year. The bill is named for Kate Steinle, the 32-year-old woman who...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement praising the passage of Rep. Tom McClintock’s (R-Calif.) Default Prevention Act in the House of Representatives: “First and foremost, Congress must enact critical reforms to restore fiscal sanity for our nation and reverse the continued upward trajectory of our spending. We cannot continue to cripple future generations. The House took a significant step today in that regard and passed the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement after Senate Democrats displayed yet another act of senseless partisanship, filibustering the Stop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act (S. 2146): “Today, the Senate had an opportunity to send the message that defiance of our laws will no longer be tolerated. While Senate Democrats chose partisan loyalty over protecting the lives of Americans, I will continue fighting to stop illegal...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today delivered a speech on the Senate floor citing the Obama Administration’s persistent negligence of immigration law enforcement and bolstering the Stop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act (S. 2146), of which he is a lead cosponsor, as a small step in the right direction. In addition to stripping certain federal funds from sanctuary jurisdictions, the legislation also incorporates critical elements of Kate’s Law, which...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today released the following statement praising the Texas Health and Human Services Commission’s decision to drop Planned Parenthood from the state’s Medicaid program: “Today, my home state of Texas proved that states can make a real difference in the fight to block taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood,” Sen. Cruz said. “I’m proud of Texas for leading the way in affirming the sanctity of life, and I...

October 16, 2015 Greetings, Last week, the 6th Circuit Court made an important decision to temporarily halt implementation of the Obama Administration’s “Waters of the United States” rule. This is an important victory for the American people, especially for Texas farmers, ranchers, and landowners. I will continue to fight to rein in the alphabet soup of regulating agencies, promote free-market principles, and demand accountability and justice from the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – On Thursday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) admonished the State Department for its recent remarks about Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israel. Sen. Cruz called for Secretary John Kerry to disavow the department’s offensive remarks about Israel being guilty of terrorism or resign.  Read The Washington Free Beacon’s coverage Sen. Cruz’s comments here and below. Ted Cruz Demands Kerry Resign Over Israel CriticismThe Washington Free BeaconBy:...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today admonished the State Department for its recent remarks about Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israel. Yesterday, following Secretary of State John Kerry’s suggestion that Israel’s settlements provoked the most recent wave of Palestinian terrorism, his chief spokesman reaffirmed his boss’ position by declaring both the Palestinians and Israel equally guilty of terrorism in a State Department press...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — This week, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sent a letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch requesting additional information about the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) interactions with state and local law enforcement agencies.   In the letter, Sen. Cruz expresses concern that current DOJ policies may be hindering the ability of law enforcement agencies to protect the public, particularly when law enforcement officials are subject to federally imposed legal, policy,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last week, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas), along with 24 House Republicans, sent a letter to the Director of the National Portrait Gallery Kim Sajet, calling for the immediate removal of Margaret Sanger’s bust from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. The bust is on display in the Gallery’s “Struggle for Justice” exhibit. Sanger, a founder of Planned Parenthood, believed in using contraceptives to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today released the following statement upon the 6th Circuit’s stay on the “Waters of the United States” rule, which allows litigation over the legality of the rule to proceed before implementation: “The 6th Circuit’s order to halt implementation of the EPA’s new ‘Waters of the United States’ rule is a win for all Americans, but especially for farmers, ranchers, and landowners in the state of...

October 9, 2015 Greetings, Americans every day face the daunting problems caused by overregulation. It appears that the federal government has forgotten the Jeffersonian standard of leaving the people "free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement." Instead, bureaucrats in Washington now seemingly regulate everything under the sun. In order to bring more attention to the problems of overregulation, I chaired a hearing this week, which examined the harmful effects onerous...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today released the following statement upon the House of Representatives’ passage of legislation lifting restrictions on crude oil exports:  “I applaud the House of Representatives for voting today to remove restrictions on exports of domestic crude oil, an effort strongly led by Rep. Joe Barton of Texas. Eliminating the de facto ban on crude oil exports is long past due. This ban is a relic of 1970s price controls, and like...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) submitted the following statement into the Congressional Record concerning the recent Palestinian attacks on Israeli civilians: “My thoughts and prayers are with the Israeli people who are enduring a new escalation of Palestinian terrorism. “Last Thursday evening, a mother and father were murdered in front of their four children ages 9, 7, 4 and 4 months when Hamas terrorists opened fire on their car. A few days later,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced as a lead cosponsor the Stop Sanctuary Policies and Protect Americans Act. The bill would withhold federal funds from sanctuary jurisdictions. The legislation also incorporates critical elements of Kate’s Law, which Sen. Cruz introduced earlier this year, by imposing a five-year mandatory minimum sentence on any alien who illegally reenters the country after having been convicted of an aggravated felony or two prior...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) issued the following statement regarding today’s final vote on the conference report of the 2016 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). “The Fiscal Year 2016 NDAA provides the minimum necessary funding authorities for the Department of Defense,” said Sen. Cruz. “While I would like to see additional funding dedicated to our military, this bill points us in the right direction and begins to address the damaging...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) spoke with Sierra Club president Aaron Mair during a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing yesterday in an exchange that proved, contrary to liberal assertions that man-caused climate change is “settled science,” that there is still a healthy and vigorous debate about the causes and nature of climate change based on the data and scientific evidence. The exchange occurred during a hearing Cruz chaired of the Senate Judiciary...