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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Jim Risch (R-Idaho), ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter with six of their Senate Republican colleagues to President Joe Biden calling on his administration to reverse political concessions and increase pressure on the Maduro regime in Venezuela, after the administration eased economic pressure as part of a deal related to the Venezuelan elections in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, condemned today’s vote by Democrats to block aid to Israel. Sen. Cruz said, “Today was a disappointment, a missed opportunity, and a failure by Senate Democrats to protect American national security interests and to stand with our Israeli allies. After hundreds of thousands of Americans rallied on the Capitol Mall for unity, Senate Democrats voted party line to oppose aid to Israel. This...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and 27 of his colleagues are calling on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to rescind its draft order on “Digital Discrimination,” which would give the federal government control over nearly every aspect of the Internet while opening broadband providers to expansive, indeterminate, and crippling liability under a “disparate impact” standard. The FCC is set to vote on the final order on Wednesday.   In...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and ranking member on the Subcommittee on The Constitution, along with Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), sent a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland confronting the Department of Justice for surveilling the personal communications of attorneys advising congressional oversight committees. In the letter, the senators said, “The decision by unelected government bureaucrats to...

Good Evening, Our country was built upon the principles of liberties from free speech to freedom of religion. This week, I delivered remarks to First Liberty, a group of lawyers who are at the front lines of the battle to defend religious liberty, and the founding principles that have made our country great.   On Monday, I joined Varney & Co. on Fox Business to discuss how the Biden administration has undermined our ally Israel by enabling and funding Hamas terrorists who are slaughtering,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced a resolution commemorating the 150thanniversary of Texas Christian University (TCU) in recognition of their legacy in Texas education and recent athletic success. TCU, a private, four-year university located in Fort Worth, Texas, is focused on building a powerful intellectual environment with a strong emphasis on faith, community, and service. Upon introducing the resolution, Sen Cruz said, “For 150 years,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, responded to reports that a Jewish man was murdered in Thousand Oaks, California when a pro-Hamas activist hit him on the head with a megaphone. Sen. Cruz said, “Enough is enough. The Biden administration must unequivocally condemn the violent antisemitism that is sweeping across the country. For the entire administration, at all levels, from Department of State staffers to his press secretary,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Bill Cassidy (R-L.A.), along with thirteen of their Senate Republican colleagues introduced a resolution pushing back on the implementation of a carbon tax. The resolution addresses the negative impacts of instituting a carbon tax such as discouraging domestic manufacturing and energy productions, more jobs and businesses moving overseas, and lower economic growth. Upon introduction, Sen Cruz said, “A carbon tax would seriously harm...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) along with several of their Senate colleagues sent a letter to the Executive Director of the Federal Permitting Improvement Steering Council (FPISC) about proposed changes to its regulations that classify “mining” projects eligible for coverage under Title 41 of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act. The Trump Administration added the mining sector to the list of eligible FAST-41 sectors in order to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement today after a bipartisan majority of senators voted to support his Texas water rights amendment, even though the vote fell short of overcoming a filibuster. His amendment would have directed the Secretary of State to support efforts by American officials at the International Boundary and Water Commission to ensure Mexico fully complies with its treaty obligations....

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released the following statement after the Senate voted to reject his amendment blocking the Senate-rejected nominee Ann Carlson from continuing to serve as the acting administrator of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The Cruz amendment, which was cosponsored by Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), was to the appropriations bill for the Departments of Transportation, and Housing and...

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, sent a letter to the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas calling on the Biden administration to address a text message, discovered by El Paso Sector Intelligence, soliciting personal information of Border Patrol agents and their families. The message sickeningly relayed that this personal information would be...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced the Hamas Sanctions Act, the first piece of legislation to comprehensively target Hamas. The legislation would impose sanctions on Hamas, its members and affiliates, and countries that provide funding and territory for Hamas operations. About the bill Sen. Cruz said, “The United States should use every resource at our disposal, including our diplomatic power and sanctions leverage,...

Good Evening, Under the Biden administration’s watch, our country is facing the worst illegal immigration crisis in our nation’s history. We’ve had 7.6 million illegal immigrants cross our southern border since Joe Biden took office. I have spent a lot of time at the southern border, and it is always shocking to see just how disastrous this crisis really is. Biden’s open border policies have invited the cartels to brutalize children, to assault women, to overrun our communities with illegal...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Senator Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), and over 100 other lawmakers are calling on Congressional leaders to include Sen. Cruz and Kelly’s amendment to streamline the CHIPS permitting reform process in this year’s National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The amendment, which passed the Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support in July, will provide regulatory certainty and accelerate the construction of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, reintroduced the Preserving Accountability for National Assets Act (PANA Act). The bill would take assets seized from individuals connected to the Chavez and Maduro regimes who are convicted of corruption and place them in a “Venezuela Restoration Fund” to be used by the State Department for building up Venezuelan democracy and civil society. This legislation is cosponsored by Sens. Marco Rubio...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement today on announcement of the Israeli ground offensive: “The Israeli government has the right and indeed the obligation to ensure the security of its citizens. For decades, our Israeli allies have sought to counter Hamas's terrorism while the international community—including, and far too often, the United States—urged engagement and appeasement. Those approaches...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and U.S. House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Sam Graves (R-MO) led a bicameral coalition of federal lawmakers calling on the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) to reverse its suspension of rules allowing liquefied natural gas (LNG) by rail. In a letter to PHMSA Deputy Administrator Tristan Brown, the lawmakers raise concerns about PHMSA advancing the...