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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.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) today applauded Senate passage of their legislation to dramatically increase U.S. diplomatic engagement in response to the government of Daniel Ortega's continued use of repressive tactics to intimidate, inhibit or arrest every aspiring opposition candidate ahead of the scheduled...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today took to the Senate floor to slam the bait and switch of the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package with a $3.5 trillion Democrat wish list. Read excerpts of his remarks below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: Liberal Spending Wish List Spends Too Much Money and is Not Paid For "I rise today to discuss the mammoth $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill before the Senate. On Sunday night, we finally got to see the 2,700 page infrastructure bill that we will be...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today warned his colleagues on the committee about President Biden's nominee to lead the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), David Chipman, as not only a partisan activist with an extreme anti-gun agenda but also a nominee who has a reported history of racist comments while in his previous office. Sen. Cruz also slammed Democrats' overwhelming support for President Biden's nominee...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) this week joined Fox News' ‘Hannity' and CNBC's ‘Squawk Box' to talk about Democrats' bait and switch of the bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure package with a $3.5 trillion Democrat wish list, along with the Biden-Harris administration's worsening border crisis and COVID mandates. Read highlights of his interviews below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz Discusses Infrastructure Bait and Switch on Squawk Box On the $1.2 trillion infrastructure...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today joined Fox News' 'America Reports' to discuss the Biden-Harris administration's border crisis spreading COVID-19 in South Texas and the $1.2 trillion infrastructure package. Read highlights of his interview below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: The Biden Border Crisis is Unacceptable On President Biden's hypocrisy over COVID mandates while releasing COVID-positive illegal immigrants in Texas, Sen. Cruz said: "Joe Biden and the Democrats hate red states...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and Mike Lee (R-Utah) today released the following statement regarding the insufficient pay-fors in the 2,700 page, $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill: "We can't spend money we don't have. Period. Just look at what is happening with inflation. We were promised this infrastructure bill was fully paid for, and now we see that it's not....

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today questioned Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman on the Biden administration's rush to dismantle pressure against the Iranian regime and the subsequent escalation by the regime against the U.S. and our allies. Read excerpts of his questioning below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: ‘The Biden Admin Has Consistently Demonstrated Weakness and Appeasement Towards Iran' In his line of questioning, Sen....

Greetings, Washington political theater and COVID mandates are at an all-time high this week, and I want to give you an update on my fight to defend the freedom of every individual to decide for themselves and their family the best way to protect their health. I know many of us worry that what is coming next is more shutdowns and government mandates. My view on this is simple: no mandates. There should be no mandates-no vaccine mandates, no mask mandates, no vaccine passports, no lockdowns, and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today applauded the Senate's passage of his bipartisan bill to rename the street outside of the Cuban embassy in Washington, D.C., ‘Oswaldo Payá Way,' after the Cuban dissident. Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) cosponsored the bill upon introduction in June. Upon passage, Sen. Cruz said: "The bipartisan support we saw today...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Todd Young (R-Ind.), and 24 other senators sent a letter this week to Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra opposing the Biden administration's attempt to eliminate a 2019 Trump-era rule that blocked combined payments for abortion coverage in taxpayer-funded Obamacare exchange plans. The senators wrote in objection to the proposed rule, the effect of which would lead to taxpayer-funded abortion by way of Obamacare's premium...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) this week introduced the Anti-BDS Labeling Act to prohibit the Biden administration from reversing current guidelines that require Israeli goods produced in areas where Israel exercises the relevant authorities to be labeled as "Made in...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) this week delivered remarks on the Senate floor slamming Democrat leadership in the House of Representatives for threatening to arrest those not wearing masks and the Biden administration's vaccine mandate proposal for all federal employees. Read excerpts of his remarks below. WATCH: Cruz on the Senate Floor: Pelosi Mask Mandates are Unprecedented, Abusive "We're surrounded by men and women who've chosen to come and work for the public good. And...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today released the following statement in opposition to the Biden administration's plan to implement a vaccine mandate for all federal employees: "President Biden's new vaccine mandate for federal employees is a brazen example of how the Left is politicizing science in the service of their authoritarian instincts. Vaccines mandates violate our rights to medical privacy and autonomy, and they are the start...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today released the following statement after voting for the emergency supplemental spending bill: "After January 6, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer made the cynical decision to try to exploit that violent event for political advantage. What followed was months of political theater with the Capitol surrounded by a chain-link fence and razor wire, thousands of National Guardsmen visibly stationed (most without bullets), and Capitol Police required to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today participated in a committee markup on three bills, one of which seeks to create a fund for global health initiatives. Sen. Cruz introduced two amendments to prevent the federal government from creating a vaccine passport system and vaccine database to track Americans based on their vaccination status. Read excerpts of his remarks below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: CDC Making Decisions Based on...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) today introduced the Protecting our Pharmaceutical Supply Chain from China Act, which would end U.S. dependence on China for pharmaceutical manufacturing. Upon introduction, Sen. Cruz said: "American dependence on Chinese supply chains is not only a health threat but a national security threat. During the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) sent a letter to President Biden calling on him to deny entry visas to Iranian President-elect Ebrahim Raisi and other senior Iranian officials to attend the U.N. General Assembly in September. Sen. Cruz has long fought to block Iranian officials who are responsible for human...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) today issued a joint statement on the bipartisan infrastructure framework. "Congress can't keep spending trillions of dollars we don't have. The infrastructure package announced today continues the trend in Congress of insane deficit spending. Let's not forget, this is just the first step in the Democrats' plan to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) today introduced the Defense of Environment and Property Act of 2021 to get the government off the backs of farmers and landowners. The legislation restores common sense to federal water policy by redefining "navigable waters," excluding ephemeral or intermittent streams from federal jurisdiction, and restraining the power the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Army Corps of Engineers hold...