Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) this week led a letter with more than a dozen Senate Republican colleagues to Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo urging the administration to strike a number of liberal social policy conditions that were attached to grants for domestic chip production. Few of the requirements on the $39 billion in money, such as requiring applicants to develop plans around mass transit use and affordable housing, were...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today reintroduced his proposed constitutional amendment that would ensure only nine justices could serve on the U.S. Supreme Court at a time. The amendment is co-sponsored by Sens. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Josh Hawley(R-Mo.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and Todd Young (R-Ind.) Once approved...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) issued the following statement in response to DirecTV’s decision to re-platform Newsmax: “Having Newsmax back on the air is a victory for free speech over powerful corporations that want to put their thumbs on the scale of the national conversation,” said Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas). “This outcome speaks to the power of citizens and their elected...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, today introduced legislation to prohibit the Federal Reserve from developing a direct-to-consumer central bank digital currency which could be used as a financial surveillance tool by the federal government. Sen. Cruz’s bill was cosponsored by Sens. Braun (R-Ind.) and Grassley (R-Iowa).  As countries like China develop CBDCs that omit the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sent a letter to Secretary of the Department of Treasury, Janet Yellen, along with Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) and other colleagues condemning efforts by the Biden administration to use the U.S. tax code to penalize American energy production. Doing so will raise energy prices, drive jobs overseas, and force the United States to further rely on more-polluting foreign energy. Other senators signing the letter were Sens. Cynthia Lummis...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today sent a letter to Chief Justice Nathan Hecht of the Supreme Court of Texas along with Augustin Rivera, Jr., Chair of the Texas Board of Law Examiners, about Stanford Law School students who participated in the harassment of United States Court of Appeals Judge Kyle Duncan. In the letter, Sen. Cruz said: “I would ask that the Texas Board of Bar Examiners, in discharging their duties of assessing the character and fitness of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Following up on his sweeping oversight investigation into Big Tech, Commerce Committee Ranking Member U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today sent letters to social media companies Meta, Google, and TikTok, blasting their failure to adequately answer his initial requests for information regarding these companies’ use of recommendation algorithms to filter and curate online material.   As Sen. Cruz wrote to TikTok, and similarly to Meta and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today sent a letter to the President of Stanford University and Dean of the Stanford School of Law regarding the recent harassment of a federal circuit judge by students and a member of the University faculty. In the letter, Sen. Cruz expressed his deep concern over the events that took place at the school, and the threat that such behavior poses to free speech, before recommending the discipline of the student harassers and the prompt...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and John Cornyn (R-Texas) wrote a letter last week to President Joe Biden supporting Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s request for an emergency disaster declaration to provide federal assistance to Texans impacted by Winter Storm Mara in Bastrop, Blanco, Burleson, Burnet, Caldwell, Delta, Denton, Falls, Hays, Henderson, Hopkins, Hunt, Kendall, Lamar, Lee, Leon, Milam, Red River, Robertson, Shelby, Smith, Travis, and Williamson...

Howdy, As always, it was an eventful week fighting for the priorities of Texans and meeting with them. This weekFriday, I joined Dagen McDowell and Sean Duffy on Fox Business’ The Bottom Line to discuss my work as Ranking Member on the Senate Commerce Committee. Continually, members of this committee are handed nominees that we are unable to confirm in good conscience – Gigi Sohn, who ended up pulling her own nomination this week, and Phil Washington.Click below to see my comments on...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has reintroduced the Public Water Supply Invasive Species Compliance Act and the Saving America’s Vulnerable and Endangered Species Act (SAVES Act). The Public Water Supply Invasive Species Compliance Act exempts certain interstate water transfers from prohibitions on the illegal trade of wildlife, fish, or plants. The legislation would better facilitate water transfers between the public water supplies of Texas,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has reintroduced an amendment to repeal a provision from the 2021 infrastructure package that created new reporting requirements for many cryptocurrency and blockchain companies. The amendment would remove harmful regulations on the cryptocurrency industry that stifle innovation, endanger the privacy of Americans, and would push key aspects of the industry overseas. Sen. Cruz previously introduced this bill...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement on the announced agreement between Japan and the Republic of Korea. Sen. Cruz said: “This announcement is an important and heartening development, with direct implications for the national security of America and our allies. The resolution of this dispute between our Japanese and South Korean allies will foster more effective enduring...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) issued the following statement after Gigi Sohn withdrew her nomination to sit on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC): “The withdrawal of Ms. Sohn’s nomination is a major victory and represents a strong bipartisan agreement that we need a fair and impartial candidate who can receive the support needed for confirmation. The FCC is not a place for partisan activists; free speech is too...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) delivered remarks on the floor of the U.S. Senate celebrating the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety Texas Rangers.   Sen. Cruz and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced the Texas Rangers Bicentennial Resolution last week, a resolution that commemorates the Texas Rangers. The bill honors the men and women, past and present, who have dedicated their lives to upholding...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) published an op-ed in National Review titled, “The Left’s Assault on Judicial Independence Is Going to Get Someone Killed,” arguing that progressive efforts to intimidate federal judges is dangerous not only to democracy, but to the judges themselves. Read the op-ed here and below. Recently, the Washington Post printed an op-ed that called for a campaign of “shaming” federal judges who...

Greetings, It is the honor of my life to fight for 30 million Texans and it was a privilege, as it always is, to spend last week in the Lone Star State while the Senate was in recess. One of Texas’ great strengths is that we are a bustling aviation hub both nationally and globally. I spent time at the American Airlines Headquarters in Ft. Worth, Texas while home and joined NBC DFW’s Julie Fine and Dallas Morning News’ Gromer Jeffers, Jr. to speak about it. Watch below....

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, delivered remarks on the Senate floor to honor the memory of Oswaldo Paya during what would have been the week of his 71st birthday.   Sen. Cruz said: “The Cuban people should know the American people stand with them against tyranny, against the communist oppression, the poverty, the misery the death under which they live every day.”   Watch the speech...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today delivered remarks on the floor of the U.S. Senate celebrating the 200th anniversary of the founding of the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety Texas Rangers. Sen. Cruz and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced the Texas Rangers Bicentennial Resolution this week, a resolution that commemorates the Texas Rangers. The bill honors the men and women, past and present, who have dedicated their lives...