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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statements after their James R. Dominguez Memorial Act was signed into law renaming the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on U.S. Highway 90 West in Uvalde County after James Ray Dominguez, a Border Patrol agent who tragically lost his life on July 19, 2012, while clearing debris from the side of Highway 90 near Cline, Texas. Upon the bill being signed into...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced a bill designating the United States Post Office located on North Tancahua Street in Corpus Christi as the “Captain Robert E. ‘Bob’ Batterson Post Office.” The bill memorializes the service of Capt. Batterson as a United States Navy veteran and former Naval Aviator. Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas-27) introduced the bill in the House of Representatives. The bill passed the House on December 5, 2024.  Upon introduction, Sen. Cruz said,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas), U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.) and victim advocates today held a press conference to urge the House to pass the TAKE IT DOWN Act, bipartisan legislation to criminalize the publication of non-consensual intimate imagery, including AI-generated images (commonly referred to as “deepfakes”). The bill, which passed the Senate unanimously last week, would require social media...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, delivered remarks at a hearing yesterday addressing the Democrat’s catastrophic open border crisis and its impact on Texas and the nation. Patty Morin, mother of Rachel Morin, delivered a heartbreaking testimony about how the Biden administration’s open border policies resulted in her daughter being brutally murdered by an illegal alien. Watch Sen. Cruz’s remarks before the Senate Judiciary Committee...

Good Evening, Mark Swidan has finally returned home to Texas after enduring twelve years as a political prisoner of the Chinese Communist Party. This moment is not just a triumph for Mark and his family, but for every Texan and American. I am deeply proud to have fought for his long-overdue release. Over the past twelve years, Mark endured the brutal reality of an unjust detention and death sentence. For years, I have relentlessly advocated across the government and fought to apply direct...

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, filed an amicus brief in Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. v. Estados Unidos Mexicanos. Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Deb Fischer (R-Neb.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Roger...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) bipartisan legislation, the TAKE IT DOWN Act, today passed the Senate unanimously and now moves to the House for consideration. The TAKE IT DOWN Act, which Sen. Cruz introduced with Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), would criminalize the publication of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), including AI-generated NCII (commonly referred to as “deepfake revenge pornography”), and require social media and similar...

WASHINGTON, D.C.  — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement on the release of unjustly detained Americans from China: “I am overjoyed that Mark Swidan, Kai Li, and John Leung have been released and are returning to their families. I could not be happier for Mark’s mother Katherine Swidan, who from her home in Luling, Texas, has spent 12 years waging an unremitting battle to ensure Mark’s release and make today a...

WASHINGTON, D.C.  — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, released the following statement regarding the announcement of a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah: “Our Israeli allies have accomplished enormous military successes over the last year against the Iranian-controlled terrorist group Hezbollah, killing thousands of Hezbollah terrorists, eliminating Hezbollah's entire command, and dismantling its infrastructure across Lebanon. These actions have...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) issued the following statement after the Senate passed his bill designating the United States Post Office located on Main Street in Bastrop, Texas as the “Sergeant Major Billy D. Waugh Post Office.” The bill memorializes the service of Sergeant Major Waugh, a Silver Star and eight-time Purple Heart recipient, who called Bastrop home. Upon passage, Sen. Cruz said, “Sergeant Major Billy Waugh dedicated his life to serving his state and country. As an...

Good Evening,  Upon returning to Washington this week, I was proud to have my bill designating the United States Post Office located on Main Street in Bastrop, Texas as the “Sergeant Major Billy D. Waugh Post Office” pass the Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support. Sergeant Major Billy Waugh dedicated his life to serving his state and country. As an Army paratrooper, Special Forces Soldier, CIA paramilitary officer, Postal Service member, and eight-time Purple Heart recipient, he embodied...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, released the following statements after the Senate passed their James R. Dominguez Memorial Act, a bill that would rename the U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint on U.S. Highway 90 West in Uvalde County in his honor. James Ray Dominguez was a proud Texan and Border Patrol agent who tragically lost his life on July 19, 2012, while clearing debris from the side of Highway 90 near Cline,...

AUSTIN, Texas – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, celebrated the work of his Service Academy Nominations Board after it concluded its annual meeting. The Board recommended 40 of the most qualified Texas candidates for nomination to our nation’s distinguished military service academies. Following the annual meeting, Sen. Cruz said, “Texas has a proud tradition of producing exceptional military leaders dedicated to protecting our country and upholding...

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, has been named by the National Immigration Center for Enforcement (NICE) as a 2024 Congressional Champion of Interior Enforcement for his leadership to secure the southern border. Sen. Cruz earned this recognition for authoring the Justice for Jocelyn Act, one of NICE’s top-priority bills, aimed at enhancing the detention and tracking of illegal...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough raising concerns over reports that numerous VA employees improperly accessed the medical records of then-vice-presidential candidates Sen. JD Vance and Gov. Tim Walz. In the letter, the senators wrote, “Nine million veterans rely on the VA to protect their medical records. Recent reports indicate that at least a dozen VA employees...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Senate Judiciary Committee, along with Senate Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Roger Wicker (R-Miss), and Senate Foreign Relations Committee Ranking Member Jim Risch (R-Idaho), sent a letter to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and Attorney General Merrick Garland regarding Qatar hosting Hamas terrorists. In the letter, the senators wrote, “The defeat of Hamas is within reach, and ending...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Cameron County Judge Eddie Treviño, Jr., discussed the U.S. Court of Appeals decision vacating already-issued liquefied natural gas permits in South Texas in a recent op-ed for the Rio Grande Guardian. The Texas senators and county judge doubled down on defending Texas energy and touted the Cruz-Cornyn Protect LNG Act to ensure that no court has the authority to vacate a previously authorized LNG permit, to clarify the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, sent a letter to U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations (UN) Linda Thomas-Greenfield regarding Palestinian moves to suspend Israel from participation in the UN General Assembly. The letter outlined steps that would be taken in response, including limiting American funding and participation across the UN and comprehensively downgrading the U.S.-Palestinian relationship.  In the letter, the senators...

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, Rep. Michael Cloud (R-Texas-27), and Texas State Rep. Stan Gerdes (R-HD-17) condemned the Biden-Harris administration after a Texan from Bastrop County was killed by an illegal alien drunk driver. The suspect had previously been deported twice, once by the Obama administration and again by the Trump administration, but was able to illegally...