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HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today penned an op-ed for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram detailing big business' discrimination against the Texas oil and gas industry in the name of climate change and the Texas legislature's fight to protect energy jobs against the woke mob with the passage of SB 13. In the op-ed, Sen. Cruz wrote: "In response, Texas lawmakers are putting Main Street over Wall Street. State Sen. Brian Birdwell, R-Granbury, filed Senate Bill 13, which would direct the...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today congratulated the Texas House for taking action on SB 13. "I applaud Texas legislators today for taking a strong stand against woke corporations and putting Main Street over Wall Street. In the past few years, we've seen a dangerous shift in America. Powerful CEOs have made the decision to use their companies to enforce the political agenda of today's Democratic Party, which is controlled by the radical Left. "Big Business isn't just wielding...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) today introduced the World Bank Integrity Preservation Act of 2021, legislation to curb China's access to the World Bank's low-rate debt financing intended for developing nations. Upon introduction, Sen. Cruz said: "China poses the single greatest geopolitical threat to the United States over the next...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) this week introduced the Transparency to Rehabilitate United States Treaties with Mexico Act of 2021 (TRUST With Mexico Act), a bill that would require the Secretary of State to provide to Congress a report describing actions taken by the Mexican government that violate the U.S.-Mexico Treaty on Mutual Legal Assistance, the responsible parties, and effects those actions...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), and Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) this week led a group of 18 other senators in a letter to Jeffrey Bezos questioning why Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words, a documentary about the life of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, was removed from Amazon's streaming service. The film's removal came during Black History Month. Co-signers of the letter include Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), John...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Hoeven (R-N.D.), along with 24 of their colleagues, this week sent a bipartisan letter urging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to act on vital energy infrastructure projects by reviewing, without further delay, the 14 natural gas pipeline infrastructure projects that are currently pending before FERC. In the letter to the FERC chairman and commissioners, the senators also outlined the importance of reviewing the projects...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), along with President of Protect Our Defenders Colonel Don Christensen, USAF (ret.), survivor Amy Marsh, and IAVA Executive Vice President Tom Porter, today introduced the Military Justice Improvement and Increasing Prevention Act. This bill would professionalize how the military prosecutes...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement after the Department of Homeland Security announced they would take steps to repair the Rio Grande Valley's levee wall system: "I am pleased President Biden and the Department of Homeland Security are listening and now moving to shore up the levee wall system that had been unthoughtfully halted. These repairs are necessary, crucial, and urgently needed to protect the public safety of Hidalgo County residents as...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) joined Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kan.) on a letter to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) outlining concerns about the new application of a heavy vehicle excise tax on feed trucks that are primarily used to feed livestock on farm property. Traditionally, this tax has only applied to heavy vehicles that transport goods over public highways. Recently, however, the IRS has begun notifying feedlots that they must pay a tax on their feed trucks even though...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) today announced their introduction of the bipartisan Military Justice Improvement and Increase Prevention Act and called for their colleagues on both sides of the aisle to swiftly take up and pass the commonsense reform. This legislation moves prosecutions for sexual assault and harassment from the chain of command to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Steve Daines (R-Mont.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-Miss.), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), and James Lankford (R-Okla.) today sent a...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) filed an amendment to the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act of 2021 (S. 914) to modernize the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (CWSRF). The CWSRF is a critically important federal funding mechanism that provides low-interest loans to states to upgrade and construct wastewater infrastructure. Unfortunately, the formula by which CWSRF monies are provided to the...

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 the Preserving Accountability for National Assets Act of 2021 (PANA Act). The bill would take assets seized from individuals connected to the Chavez and Maduro regimes that are convicted of corruption and place them in a "Venezuela Restoration Fund" to be used by the State Department for building up Venezuelan democracy and civil society. Upon...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released the following statement after President Biden's first joint address to Congress: "For the millions of Americans who found something better to do tonight than listen to Joe Biden outline his socialist vision for our country, I can summarize his speech in three words for you: boring, but radical." ###

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on The Constitution, today delivered opening remarks at a hearing on Extreme Risk Orders, also known as ‘Red Flag Laws.' Excerpts of his remarks are below. WATCH: Sen. Cruz: Federal Red Flag Laws Are Not the Answer to Reducing Gun Violence"In Texas, we have seen far too many mass murders at the hands of deranged and sick individuals. I was in Santa Fe the morning of that shooting. Santa Fe...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - As President Biden gives his first Joint Address to Congress, he'll likely be doing so under the guise of unity and make his best attempts to appeal to bipartisanship ­- though what the American people have seen since he took the oath of office has been anything but. President Biden has embraced the radical left, and if Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's recent comments are any measure, his administration has "exceeded" progressives' expectations. But President Biden's efforts to...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) today joined Rep. Michael C. Burgess (R-Texas) and 20 other members on a bicameral letter to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra expressing their concern and disappointment by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' (CMS) action taken to rescind the 10-year extension of the Texas' Medicaid 1115 Waiver. Co-signers of their letter include U.S. Reps. Kevin Brady (R-Texas), Dan...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today joined Fox News' ‘Fox & Friends' to discuss the real state of the union ahead of President Biden's Joint Address to Congress tonight and his op-ed detailing the radical policies proposed by the president in his first 100 days in office. Highlights of his interview are below. WATCH: Cruz on Fox Discusses President Biden's Radical First 100 Days Ahead of His Joint Address to Congress On President Biden's Joint Address to Congress...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - As President Biden's Joint Address to Congress nears, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today penned an op-ed for Fox News detailing the real state of the union and the ‘boring, but radical' policies the president has proposed to appease the far left members of his party. In the op-ed, Sen. Cruz wrote: "President Biden will address a joint session of Congress Wednesday night and give Americans an update on the state of the union as he approaches his 100th day in office."...