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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today sent letters to nine Big Tech firms seeking information about coordination with more than 40 government officials who were attempting to flag, censor, and investigate the content and accounts of Americans online. Sen. Cruz wrote: “The Twitter Files continue to reveal the extent to which U.S. government employees, acting in an official capacity, applied pressure to, as well as coordinated...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – El senador Ted Cruz (republicano de Texas) presentó la Ley “Corrupción en Argentina, bloqueada por la aplicación de sanciones” de 2023, o Ley “CASES”, por sus siglas en inglés. El proyecto de ley exige que el Presidente investigue a cinco funcionarios argentinos por corrupción, incluida la vicepresidenta de Argentina, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. Si el Presidente considera que cumplen los criterios para ser...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced the Corruption in Argentina Stymied by Enforcing Sanctions Act of 2023, or CASES Act. The bill requires the President to investigate five Argentinian officials for corruption, including Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. If the President finds that they meet the criteria for corruption sanctions, the bill mandates the imposition of those sanctions. Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), Chair of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced the Corruption in Argentina Stymied by Enforcing Sanctions Act of 2023, or CASES Act. The bill requires the President to investigate five Argentinian officials for corruption, including Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. If the President finds that they meet the criteria for corruption sanctions, the bill mandates the imposition of those sanctions. Rep. María Elvira Salazar (R-Fla.), Chair of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today grilled Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas about the illegal immigration crisis at the Texas-Mexico border during an oversight hearing. Click above or here to watch. During the hearing, Sen. Cruz repeatedly asked Secretary Mayorkas whether there was a crisis at our southern border, and whether this crisis made Americans less safe. Mayorkas each time tried to avoid the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) introduced legislation co-sponsored by Sens. John Cornyn (R-Texas) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) to formally name the Ports-to-Plains Corridor as Interstate 27. Rep. Jodey Arrington (R-Texas) is introducing the legislation in the House. About the legislation, Sen. Cruz said: “I’m proud to have spearheaded and passed the first iteration of Ports-to-Plains. The Cruz- Luján legislation was a tremendous bipartisan victory for...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) celebrated a victory for free speech after he received a letter from Stanford University about their response to the recent on-campus harassment of a federal judge. The letter from Stanford President Marc Tessier-Lavigne and Stanford Law School Dean Jenny Martinez responded to Sen. Cruz’s March 14th letter and addressed the ways the school was responding to the recent harassment of Federal Circuit Judge Kyle Duncan by Stanford Law...

We had yet another eventful week in the Senate fighting against the Biden administration’s disastrous nominees, his open border policies, and the Democrats’ efforts to keep spending more and more money we don’t have. “What we are seeing right now is the highest debt in history. It is crushing. We are bankrupting this country. The Democrats over the last two years with the Biden presidency and a Democrat House and Senate rammed through trillions in new spending which, is...

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,...