Press Releases

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement on the passing of Jean Rounds, wife of Sen. Mike Rounds and former first lady of South Dakota: “Our hearts are heavy as we bid farewell to Jean Rounds, who fought a brave battle with sarcoma cancer with courage and grace. Heidi and I send our heartfelt prayers and condolences to Mike and the entire Rounds family as they grieve the loss of a loving wife, mother, and grandmother. May Jean rest in peace...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, this week delivered remarks on the Senate floor blasting President Biden’s nominee for Assistant Secretary of State for Near East Affairs, Barbara Leaf. In his remarks, Sen. Cruz slammed the Biden State Department and Ms. Leaf for hiding dangerous political decisions from Congress and the American people. Read excerpts of his floor remarks below. “I rise today to discuss the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today sent a letter to Committee leadership, Sens. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) and Jim Risch (R-Idaho). In the letter, the senators expressed their concerns with President Biden’s nomination of Dr. Amy Gutmann to be the U.S. Ambassador to Germany. In their letter, the senators wrote: “We are deeply concerned that our allies will view Dr....

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Kennedy (R-La.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today sent a letter to President Biden to oppose his administration’s reported plan to offer illegal immigrants up to $450,000 per person in taxpayer dollars to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Todd Young (R-Ind.), and Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) this week introduced the “Circumspectly Reducing Unintended Consequences Impairing Alliances and Leadership Act of 2021” (CRUCIAL Act), which creates a 10-year exemption for member countries of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue—Australia, Japan, and India—from U.S. sanctions passed in 2017 that would undermine unity...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today led a bicameral amicus brief with his Republican colleagues in the case of 303 Creative LLC v. Elenis, calling for the Supreme Court to review a circuit court decision that prohibits a Colorado business owner from exercising her free speech and religious liberty rights. The petitioner, Lorie Smith, runs the website design company 303 Creative and cannot provide custom services for same-sex...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today questioned Attorney General (AG) Merrick Garland in a committee hearing on oversite of the Department of Justice (DOJ).  In his first line of questioning, Sen. Cruz asked about the DOJ’s recent memorandum directing the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to pursue parents who oppose critical race theory (CRT) in schools and a possible conflict of interest from AG...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the following video in advance of Attorney General (AG) Merrick Garland’s testimony before the committee today, demanding AG Garland answer five crucial questions. Read the full transcript below. “Ten months into the Joe Biden administration, Attorney General Merrick Garland is finally testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee. We need answers from Merrick Garland...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Commerce Committee, today participated in a Communications Subcommittee hearing on the negative effects of TikTok, Snapchat, and YouTube on children. In the hearing, Sen. Cruz asked Michael Beckerman, TikTok’s head of public policy for the Americas, numerous times about whether TikTok considers one of their sister companies, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-affiliated Beijing ByteDance Technology Co., an...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), along with 34 of their Republican colleagues, today introduced the Upholding the 1995 Jerusalem Embassy Law Act of 2021, a bill to protect the full and faithful implementation of the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995 and block the Biden Administration’s efforts to subvert the law. Cosponsors include Sens. John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), John...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Chris Coons (D-Del.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today introduced the Courthouse Ethics and Transparency Act to require online publication of financial disclosure reports for federal judges and to mandate that federal judges submit periodic transaction reports for...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, issued the following statement after Biden-Harris officials slammed Israel for designating six groups that served as fronts for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine in accordance with Israel’s 2016 Anti-Terrorism Law: “This unwarranted and false criticism yet again highlights the reflexive antipathy that President Biden’s State Department and Biden-Harris...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to President Biden supporting Gov. Abbott’s appeal of the president’s denial of a federal emergency declaration as a result of the unprecedented crisis on the southern border. Last month, Sens. Cruz and Cornyn sent a letter in support of Gov. Abbott’s initial request for an emergency declaration. The Biden administration denied the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Tim Scott (R-S.C.), Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), and Pat Toomey (R-Pa.), along with their Republican colleagues, introduced the Prohibiting IRS Financial Surveillance Act, a bill to prevent the implementation of Democrats’ plan to give the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) access to the banking transaction information of virtually every American. The bill is cosponsored by Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Mitch McConnell...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), and 64 of their Republican colleagues submitted public comment to President Biden’s proposed rule that would illegally upend the process by which the U.S. government hears asylum claims. This rule, if finalized, would lead to the dispersion of potentially hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens into the interior each year in violation of federal law,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and Tim Scott (R-S.C.) today introduced the Campus Free Speech Resolution of 2021 to lead the fight for greater First Amendment protection at public universities. Upon introduction, Sen. Cruz said: “College campuses are no longer a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, this week joined Fox News’ ‘Hannity’ to discuss the Biden-Harris border crisis and his new bill, the Stop the SURGE Act, to establish new ports of entry in 13 communities across the country. Read highlights of his interview below. On the Biden-Harris administration’s effort to hide the border crisis in South Texas, Sen. Cruz said: “Joe Biden, Kamala Harris have a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Cornyn (R-Texas), along with Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas), today introduced a resolution commemorating the 80th anniversary of the opening of Sheppard Air Force Base and the 40th anniversary of the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT) Program. Sheppard AFB is the Air Force’s premier training installation, producing thousands of graduates annually. It is home to the 82nd Training Wing and the 80th Flying Training...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, spoke to The National Review’s Jimmy Quinn about his leadership in the Senate urging President Biden to impose Congressionally mandated, bipartisan sanctions on Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline—a project that if completed would threaten the national security of the United States and our allies. In response to President Biden’s refusal to impose these sanctions, Sen....