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07.21.2021
Sens. Cruz, Inhofe Introduce Federal Land Freedom Act and FRESH Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) this week introduced the Federal Land Freedom Act and the Fracturing Regulations are Effective in State Hands (FRESH) Act to give each state the right to develop and regulate the energy resources on the federal lands located within that state's borders. Upon introduction, Sen. Cruz said: "In just the first few months of the Biden administration, we have witnessed an inflation crisis and increased regulatory burdens hurting... -
07.21.2021
Sen. Cruz to Sec. Vilsack: Democrats Focus on Amnesty for Illegal Immigrants While Ignoring the Suffering Caused by the Border Crisis
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture Tom Vilsack on why the Biden-Harris administration and Senate Democrats are focusing on amnesty for illegal immigrant workers as they allow the humanitarian, national security, and public health crises on our southern border to worsen. Excerpts of his line of questioning are below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: Focus Should Be On Addressing Failed... -
07.21.2021
Sens. Cruz, Wicker, Commerce Committee GOP Members Urge Leader Schumer to Follow Regular Order to Expand Broadband Access
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), and seven of their committee colleagues sent a letter urging Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) to move any broadband-related provisions through the committee process. In the letter, the senators wrote: "Over the past year, billions of dollars have been appropriated to multiple agencies to expand broadband access across the country. Although no formal accounting has been conducted to evaluate how or where that... -
07.21.2021
Sen. Cruz Joins Senate Republican Caucus in Urging Biden Administration to Drop Step-Up In Basis Tax-Hike Proposal
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Thune (R-S.D.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), and the entire Senate Republican caucus urged President Biden to abandon his effort to impose a capital gains tax increase on family-owned businesses, farms, and ranches. Repealing this part of the tax code would have a devastating effect on multi-generation operations, which could lead to job losses, liquidation, or outright closure. In the letter, the... -
07.21.2021
Sens. Cruz, Rubio, Hagerty Request Answers from GAVI Following Advance Purchase Agreements With Sinophram and Sinovac
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, this week sent a letter to the GAVI Alliance's Chairman, José Manuel Barroso, expressing concern that U.S. taxpayer dollars would be used to purchase Sinopharm and Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines. Both Sinovac and Sinopharm are companies based in China with ties to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In the letter, the senators wrote: "[w]e are... -
07.20.2021
Sens. Cruz, Cornyn, Colleagues Demand Answers from Biden Administration on Excluding Funding for Port Projects Connected to Fossil Fuels
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), and Bill Cassidy (R-La.) today sent a letter to the Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Shalanda Young raising concerns about the FY 22 Army Corps budget. The budget seemingly attacks the fossil fuel industry in the United States and prohibits funding port projects connected to fossil fuels. If the language is implemented, it... -
07.20.2021
Sen. Cruz: Reports of Deal to Finish Nord Stream 2 Pipeline a Catastrophe for the US and Our Allies
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today released the following statement regarding reports that the United States has struck a deal to finish Putin's Nord Stream 2 Pipeline: "If the reports and details of a deal are accurate, this will be a generational geopolitical win for Putin and a catastrophe for the United States and our allies. President Biden is defying U.S. law and has utterly surrendered to Putin. Decades from now,... -
07.20.2021
Sen. Cruz Leads 24 Republican Senators on Amicus Brief Protecting Americans Second Amendment Rights
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, today led 24 other Republican senators in filing an amicus brief for New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen, a case currently pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. The brief argues that New York's laws making it extremely difficult to carry a firearm outside the home violates the Second Amendment's guarantee of the right to bear arms. The brief emphasizes... -
07.19.2021
Sen. Cruz on Fox News: The Democrat Party is Structurally Pro-China
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) this week joined Fox News' 'Sunday Morning Futures' with Maria Bartiromo to discuss the rush by Congressional Democrats and the Biden administration to appease the Chinese Communist Party while ignoring their widespread human rights violations, censorship, and propaganda. Sen. Cruz emphasized that the Democrat Party is beholden to Big Tech and giant corporations, which in turn rely on China to turn profits. Highlights of his interview are... -
07.16.2021
Sen. Cruz, Colleagues Issue Statement on Democrats Partisan Spending Bill: America Needs to Invest in Infrastructure Without Out of Control Spending
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) released a joint statement in response to Democrats' partisan spending package. "Our nation is nearing $30 trillion in debt. There is a day of reckoning if we don't get our fiscal house in order. We appreciate our colleagues' efforts to get a bipartisan deal done. But... -
07.16.2021
President Biden Chooses Politics Over Texas Border Communities - Again
Greetings, As summer begins, I want to give you an update on what's happening with the border crisis five months into the Biden-Harris Administration. President Biden has repeatedly made reckless policy decisions that have caused the crisis at our southern border-he halted construction of the border wall, he reinstated the failed catch-and-release policy, and he ended the Remain in Mexico policy, which was an international agreement President Trump negotiated with the government of Mexico where... -
07.15.2021
Sen. Cruz on the Senate Floor: To the People of Cuba, We Stand With You - You Have a Right to be Free
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), today delivered remarks on the Senate floor in support of the men and women of Cuba as they fight against their tyrannical communist regime and urged President Biden to directly call out the evils of communism. Read excerpts of his floor remarks below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz Condemns Communist Cuban Regime, Expresses Support for Cuban Protestors on Senate Floor "On Sunday, shouts of... -
07.15.2021
Sen. Cruz Introduces Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Parental Rights of Military Academy Cadets
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) today introduced the ‘Candidates Afforded Dignity, Equality and Training Act of 2021,' or CADET Act, mandating an end to current policies that force female students in America's military academies into either permanently withdraw from those academies or give up their children should they become pregnant. Under the CADET Act, military academies will treat pregnancies in line with the rest of the military,... -
07.15.2021
Sens. Cruz, Rubio Introduce Resolution in Support of the Cuban People
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, this week introduced a resolution in support of the men and women of Cuba as they lead historic protests throughout the island against six decades of repression and tyranny from the Castro and Díaz-Canel regime. The resolution highlights the dictatorship's long record of oppression against pro-democracy leaders, political opponents, and dissidents. Following this... -
07.15.2021
Sen. Cruz Introduces Bill to Sanction Iran Supreme Leader and President-Elect
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), John Hoeven (R-N.D.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), Todd Young (R-Ind.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today introduced legislation to... -
07.15.2021
Sens. Cruz, Menendez, Colleagues Introduce Bipartisan, Bicameral Resolution Reaffirming Congressional Support for Cuban Protesters
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), Mark Warner (D-Va.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.), and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) today introduced a bicameral, bipartisan resolution... -
07.14.2021
Sen. Cruz: South Texas COVID Rates are Rising Because of the Biden-Harris Border Crisis
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today joined his Republican colleagues in calling on the Biden-Harris administration to address the humanitarian, national security, and most recently, public health crisis on our southern border. As rates of COVID-19 rise in Texas communities, Sen. Cruz urged the Biden administration to preserve Title 42 prompt expulsions of illegal immigrants to protect the health and safety of Americans and called for... -
07.14.2021
Sen. Cruz for National Review: Cuba Libre!
WASHINGTON, D.C. - As the Biden administration and Congressional Democrats avoid addressing the root of the problems in communist Cuba, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today penned an op-ed for The National Review highlighting his connection to Cuban dissidents and his support for the Cuban protestors fighting for freedom from their brutal dictatorship. In the op-ed, Sen. Cruz wrote: "This socialist regime has tortured, killed, silenced, denied freedom to, and driven into exile generations of... -
07.13.2021
Sen. Cruz on Americas Newsroom: The Biden Administration Would be Putting Politics Ahead of Public Safety and Public Health by Not Enforcing Title 42 Expulsions
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today joined Fox News' ‘America's Newsroom' to discuss the ongoing protests in Cuba and his new bill to codify President Trump's previous public health order under Title 42, which authorizes prompt expulsion of illegal immigrants to prevent the spread of Covid-19. Highlights of his interview are below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz on America's Newsroom: Biden ‘Putting Politics Ahead of Public Safety and Public Health' On his support for protesters... -
07.13.2021
Sen. Cruz Introduces SHIELD Act to Preserve Title 42 Expulsions of Illegal Immigrants
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) today introduced the ‘Securing the Homeland from International Entrants with Life-threatening Diseases Act,' or SHIELD Act, to codify the previous administration's public health order under Title 42 that required U.S. border officials to promptly remove...