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WASHINGTON, D.C. — While chairing a Judiciary Subcommittee hearing yesterday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) questioned Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Commissioner John Koskinen and delivered a powerful statement on the IRS’ illegal targeting of conservative groups.   Fox News: Cruz on Lost IRS Emails: ‘Nixon’s Ghost Must Have Been Smiling’ …Ted Cruz grilled IRS Commissioner John Koskinen and assailed the agency he leads at a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today held a hearing on the Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) targeting of conservative groups. In his opening statement, Sen. Cruz remarked, "If the IRS has become a partisan arm of the Democratic National Committee, there can be no stronger argument for ending the IRS as we know it, so that no Administration, Democrat or Republican, can use the IRS to target its political opponents. If a Republican president did this, as Richard Nixon tried, I can...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today attended the Students for Life of America #WomenBetrayed Rally on the East Front of the U.S. Capitol and delivered the following remarks. Video of Cruz's remarks is available above. "We are here today rallying for life. "The past several weeks we've seen a series of videos come out of Planned Parenthood that are nothing short of horrifying. These are videos of senior Planned Parenthood officials laughing, swilling chardonnay, and casually,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) tonight issued the following statement after a disappointing vote in the Senate to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank, a Washington institution that has become synonymous with cronyism and corruption: "Tonight, the McConnell-Reid leadership team pushed through another win for the Washington Cartel, and they did so at the taxpayers' expense. By casting votes in favor of cronyism and special interests, the Senate made clear what group matters most to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) recently sent a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry asking more questions about a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) document that appears to contradict key aspects of the Administration’s policy regarding the handling of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UAC). This letter represents the latest step in Sen. Cruz’s thorough examination of the Administration’s multi-agency approach to last year’s UAC...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After speaking on the Senate floor today, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) issued the following statement: “We’ve just seen something extraordinary on the Senate floor. The American people elected a Republican majority believing that a Republican majority would be somehow different from a Democratic majority in the United States Senate. Unfortunately, the way the current Senate operates, there is one party, the Washington party.  “Senate...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today gave a powerful floor speech shining a light on the corrupt deal struck by Senate Republican leadership to allow the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank. Some key quotes are below, followed by a complete transcript and of Sen. Cruz’s remarks. Video above. “There is a profound disappointment among the American people because we keep winning elections and then we keep getting leaders who don't do...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today filed the DOTCOM Act as an amendment to the highway reauthorization bill. Cruz's amendment is identical to the version of the DOTCOM Act being considered by the Senate with one exception: it requires Congress to have an affirmative up or down vote on the Obama Administration's plan to give away the Internet. "When the DOTCOM Act was considered by the Commerce Committee, I noted that it was a good faith effort to begin to provide congressional...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) yesterday held a hearing, “With Prejudice: Supreme Court Activism and Possible Solutions,” in the Subcommittee on Oversight, Agency Action, Federal Rights and Federal Courts. The hearing focused on the Supreme Court’s recent lawless decisions ending traditional marriage and rewriting Obamacare to save it. “The Court today is not a body of jurists. It is not a body of judges following the law, but rather it has...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Following this week's opening of the Cuban Embassy, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today introduced legislation to rename the street where the embassy is located as "Oswaldo Payá Way" in honor of Cuba's late leader in democratic movements. The bill serves as a tribute to those who have contested the cruelty and oppression of the Castro regime. "The opening of the Cuban Embassy is yet another example of the Administration's long, slow capitulation to oppressive...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) yesterday demanded answers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Sarah Saldaña in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, which focused on the Administration’s egregious release of criminal illegal aliens and its refusal to enforce immigration laws.  Fox News: Father of Kate Steinle blasts ‘legal loopholes’ that helped daughter’s alleged killer In dramatic...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced "Kate's Law," the Establishing Mandatory Minimums for Illegal Reentry Act of 2015 as a companion to legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. Matt Salmon (R-Ariz.). The bill would amend federal law to impose a mandatory minimum sentence of five years for any illegal reentry offense. The bill is named for Kate Steinle, the 32-year-old woman who tragically died in the arms of her father on a San Francisco pier...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today called on Senate leadership to prove that there was no corrupt deal to allow the reauthorization of the Export-Import Bank to be attached to S. 22, the highway reauthorization bill. Cruz will also file eight amendments to the bill. The amendments would advance conservative policies addressing illegal immigration, Obamacare, Second Amendment rights, federal funding for Planned Parenthood, and the Iranian nuclear deal, among other policy...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today questioned U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Director Sarah Saldaña in the Senate Committee on the Judiciary hearing regarding the Administration's failure to enforce immigration law against criminal illegal aliens. "Ms. Saldaña, I will note in your opening statement here, you said after listening to the victims' families you were so sorry for their losses, and yet the Obama Administration keeps doing it. When I...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - On the fourth anniversary of the creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas-04) have introduced legislation to eliminate it. The CFPB, like the Dodd-Frank legislation which created it, is just another example of the cronyism that infects our nation's capital. The CFPB was sold as an entity to help consumers by regulating and reining in larger financial institutions. Ironically, the Bureau has had...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- In light of last week’s revelations that a senior official with Planned Parenthood admitted to working with abortion providers to potentially violate federal and state laws, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sent letters today to Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Cate Dyer, CEO of StemExpress. The letters request documents and additional information from NIH and StemExpress in order to...

July 17, 2015 Greetings, The Supreme Court’s recent decision requiring a nationwide redefinition of marriage is deeply concerning for religious liberty in Texas and across America. This week I sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Koskinen asking him to remain vigilant in ensuring the Court’s decision does not discriminate against institutions that affirm marriage as the union of husband and wife. I remain resolved that Americans should not be targeted because of their faith, and will...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) earlier today asking the Commission to reject requests from incumbent businesses and members of Congress to apply additional regulations on the sharing economy. "Over and over again, government is sought out as an ally of incumbent businesses to restrict competition from new entrants," Cruz wrote. "In a number of instances, and in a number of states, pre-existing regulatory regimes have been...

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, released the following statement in response to yesterday's act of terror in Chattanooga, Tennessee: "Yesterday, members of our armed services in Chattanooga, Tennessee, went to work in the service of our nation. Some went to a recruiting center to assist the young people who, like so many before them, would walk through the door on any given Thursday morning and volunteer to defend the United States of America. Four brave Marines went to a Naval...