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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) delivered remarks on the Senate floor yesterday on the fires in the Texas Panhandle and in honor of the sacrifice and service of Fritch Volunteer Fire Chief Zeb Smith. Chief Smith passed away fighting a fire on Tuesday morning. Earlier this week, Sen. Cruz was on the ground in Fritch and Borger, Texas to meet with local officials, impacted families, and relief services. There he met with Chief Smith. Watch the speech here. Transcript: Mr....

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and John Cornyn (R-TX) today announced their support for Texas Governor Abbott’s request for the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) to conduct joint preliminary damage assessments in communities impacted by wildfires to determine if Texas meets the threshold for additional federal disaster assistance. One of the three fires still burning, the Smokehouse Creek fire is the largest wildfire in Texas history and among the largest in U.S....

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) celebrated the Senate passage of the I-27 Numbering Act, officially designating the Ports-to-Plains Corridor between Laredo, Texas, and Raton, New Mexico as the future Interstate 27. The bipartisan bill passed the Senate with unanimous consent and is now going to President Biden’s desk to be signed into law. Following passage, Sen. Cruz said, “The passage of this...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today announced that Texas Sheriff Danny Dominguez (D-Presidio County) will be his guest for President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address before Congress on Thursday evening. Sheriff Dominguez has been at the front lines of the largest illegal immigration crisis in our nation’s history. Every single day he witnesses the tremendous strain this humanitarian and national security crisis places on our Texas-Mexico border communities. Sen. Cruz and...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the Coast Guard continues to interdict cartel-backed fish poachers in federal waters, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), and Sen. Katie Britt (R-Ala.) took action this week to target illegally caught red snapper imports. The Illegal Red Snapper Enforcement Act would require the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to develop a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), joined by Sens. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) today filed legislation to allow American victims of terrorism to sue international organizations that support those terrorists, such as the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which provided resources to Hamas terrorists ahead of the horrific October 7th attack...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee and the ranking member of the Subcommittee on The Constitution, released the following statement in response to the United States Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling in favor of former President Trump in the case of Donald Trump v. Norma Anderson, et al. The U.S. Supreme Court overruled the Colorado Supreme Court’s ruling from December 2023 that barred the former president from appearing on the 2024 Colorado...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), along with several of their Senate Republican colleagues, sent a letter to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) demanding that the agency rescind its finalized National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) rule for fine particular matter (PM2.5) and revisit its next congressionally mandated review in 2025. Unless it is rescinded, this burdensome EPA regulation will continue to hurt businesses and jobs,...

Good Evening, On March 2nd, the Lone Star State will celebrate 188 years since Texas declared its independence from Mexico and fought for liberty. I was proud to continue to the time-honored tradition of reading the words of Colonel William B. Travis, the leader of the besieged forces at the Alamo, on the Senate floor this week. In Texas, American perseverance runs deep in our veins. The Texians who risked everything to make freedom a reality for future generations are a shining light of our...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Democrats blocked a motion by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today to include his Secure the Border Act in the Continuing Resolution. The Secure the Border Act would provide physical and technological border improvements, manpower assistance to Border Patrol and ICE Enforcement Removal Operations, and protection to families seeking entry at the border as well as unaccompanied alien children. Additionally, Sen. Cruz’s amendment punishes visa overstays, reforms immigration...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released the following statement after casting a vote against the short-term continuing resolution. Sen. Cruz said, “Today, Democrats demonstrated how unserious they are about securing the border and defending our ally Israel. Democrats blocked my measure to include the Secure the Border Act to this continuing resolution, which would have solved our unprecedented immigration crisis by building a wall, punishing visa overstays, and reforming...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, filed legislation today to prohibit the U.S. government from suspending anti-terrorism restrictions to send foreign aid to the Gaza Strip or the West Bank. The Terminating Unlawful Negligence and Nullifying Exemptions and Licenses to Sanctions (TUNNELS) Act of 2024, rescinds the licenses employed by the Biden administration to channel U.S. aid through international and non-governmental...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), joined by Sens. Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Ted Budd (R-N.C.), and Mike Braun (R-Ind.), today filed legislation to halt efforts by the Biden administration to issue a central bank digital currency (CBDC): About the bill, Sen. Cruz said, “The Biden administration salivates at the thought of infringing on our freedom and intruding on the privacy of citizens to surveil their personal spending habits, which is why Congress must...

HOUSTON, Texas – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and John Cornyn (R-Texas) issued a statement today in response to news that the Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers, Inc.’s sugarcane mill will close amid acute water shortages. About the closure, the senators said, “Mexico’s failure to adhere to its obligations under the 1944 Treaty of Utilization of Waters is having disastrous consequences on farmers and ranchers in South Texas, and this closure will...

HOUSTON, Texas – The Wall Street Journal last week published an opinion by Eugene Kontorovich, a professor at George Mason University Scalia Law School and a scholar at the Jerusalem-based Kohelet Policy Forum, calling for Congress to create a terrorism exception in laws governing immunity for international organizations. The article noted that Sen. Cruz is currently circulating such a bill. The bill is Sen. Cruz’s LIABLE Act (“Limiting Immunity for Assisting Backers of Lethal Extremism”). The...

Houston, Texas – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, wrote an op-ed that appeared over the weekend in the Houston Chronicle. The article can be read here or below. “Over the past decade, I’ve made many trips to our southern border, often bringing my colleagues in the Senate down with me. On a recent trip, we had a conversation with a girl who was only 10 years old. This girl was with a man who claimed to be her father. He had his arm draped forcefully around...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) , a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,  today issued the following statement after Russia announced the death of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny: “The Russian regime has been trying to murder Alexei Navalny for years to stop his criticism of Vladimir Putin’s corruption and autocracy, and to intimidate the Russian people from similar criticism. Tragically, they appear to have finally succeeded in murdering him. We must ensure that...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, joined Sens. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) in introducing the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act. Following the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing with Big Tech CEOs, support for the legislation has grown with a total of 62 senators now co-sponsoring the bill. After the hearing, Sen. Cruz worked to strengthen the legislation before it is...