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HOUSTON, Texas – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, along with Sens. Jim Risch (R-Idaho), Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), David Perdue (R-Ga.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and James Lankford (R-Okla.), on Thursday sent a letter to Secretary of State Michael Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin encouraging the administration to hold members of the Ortega regime in Nicaragua accountable for human rights violations. In the letter,...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today called on Attorney General Bill Barr and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to investigate Twitter for willfully violating American sanctions on Iran by providing social media accounts and services to the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and the Iranian Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif. Both officials are designated under Executive Order (E.O) 13876 for connections to...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on The Constitution, today issued the following statement commending President Trump's action to rein in Big Tech immunity and bias: "This executive order is an important acknowledgement that we can no longer afford to let Big Tech go unchecked. For too long, social media platforms like Twitter have hid behind their opaque algorithms and Section 230 immunity to target speech with which they disagree and advance...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today sent a letter urging the Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to work with vaccine manufacturers and healthcare providers to anticipate and prepare to meet potential increased demand for flu vaccines during the upcoming flu season. Pointing to reports of possible increased demand for flu vaccinations this year, Sen. Cruz wrote in the letter: "As the federal...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement on the passing of former Texas Congressman Sam Johnson: "Heidi and I are deeply saddened by the passing of Sam Johnson, a Texan and American hero who devoted his own life to improving the lives of others. From his 29 years serving our country as a fighter pilot - including seven years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam - to his 28 years representing the people of North Texas in Congress, Sam was the definition of a...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on The Constitution, today issued the following statement condemning Twitter's continued action to wrongly stifle political discourse and Americans' First Amendment rights under the guise of "disinformation": "Time and time again we have seen Twitter exploit its immunity to silence the voices of those with whom Silicon Valley billionaires disagree. But yesterday the company stooped to a new political low, using...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement applauding the appointment of Stephen J. Cox as U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas. "I'm very glad to see the Department of Justice appoint my good friend Stephen Cox as the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District. Steve and I have been close friends for two decades. Throughout his career, both in the private and public sector, Steve has gained deep experience that...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today applauded the Trump administration's decision to end the civil nuclear waivers for international nuclear cooperation with Iran. "Today the administration took a critical step toward tearing up the catastrophic Obama-Iran nuclear deal once and for all," Sen. Cruz said. "For too long the Ayatollah has exploited these civil nuclear waivers to build up Iran's nuclear programs, with the intention of...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today issued the following statement after the Trump administration notified Congress that Hong Kong is no longer autonomous from China as a result of actions by the Chinese Communist Party and the People's Republic of China to deepen their control of the region and, under U.S. law advanced by Sen. Cruz, there should be a reevaluation of U.S. policy toward Hong Kong: "This is a sad day for liberty. The...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), and John Cornyn (R-Texas) today urged President Trump in a letter to continue unwinding the United States from Cold War-style nuclear arms control treaties that put constraints on the U.S. while allowing China and other adversaries, to rapidly build up their nuclear arsenals, and to continue restoring the U.S. nuclear deterrent. In the letter, the senators wrote: "We write to...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today sent a letter to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urging him to use the voice and influence of the United States to prevent a Munich firm from auctioning off a U.S. Medal of Honor, which is scheduled to take place later this week according to the auction site. In the letter, he wrote: "The sale harms the dignity and honor of all recipients of the Medal of Honor. The Congress and the United States have long sought to prevent such affronts, and...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement in advance of Memorial Day: "This weekend, across Texas and the United States, Americans pause to honor the patriots who gave their last full measure for our liberty. As we honor our friends and loved ones who made the ultimate sacrifice to keep us free, let us also honor the unnamed heroes who lay at rest in our military cemeteries. Although they are gone, they will never be forgotten. Let us never take for...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), along with 32 Republican Senate colleagues and 94 Members of the House of Representatives, sent a letter to Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA) Jovita Carranza requesting a full investigation into the 37 Planned Parenthood affiliates who applied for and improperly received a total of $80 million in loans from the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP). As the Senators wrote: “It has come to our...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today issued the following statements after the Trump administration announced sanctions against two high-profile Nicaraguan government officials, Julio César Avilés Castillo, the commander-in-chief of the Nicaraguan Army, and Iván Adolfo Acosta Montalván, the Ortega regime's minister of finance for their involvement in serious human rights abuses: "These sanctions against...

HOUSTON, Texas - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is leading the charge in the Senate to fundamentally reassess the U.S.-China relationship as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) continues to lie and engage in a massive coverup of the coronavirus outbreak, threatens to cut off U.S. access to life-saving medications made only in China, and squash Hong Kong's autonomy. As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Cruz is working to: Hold China accountable for the type of medical...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), and John Kennedy (R-La.) today sent a letter applauding the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for continuing to process applications to improve America's energy infrastructure - despite partisan requests from House Democrats and Democratic Attorneys General to halt the review of new natural gas pipeline projects and Liquefied Natural...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Susan Collins (R-Maine) this week applauded the approval by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of S. Res.454, a resolution calling for the immediate release of Cuban democracy activist Jose Daniel Ferrer, who was imprisoned on October 1,...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.), along with Sens. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), Martha McSally (R-Ariz.), and Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) today introduced the COVID-19 Vaccine Protection Act to prevent the Communist Chinese Party from stealing or sabotaging American COVID-19 vaccine research. The bill requires a thorough national security evaluation and clearance by the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of...

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today delivered remarks on the Senate floor highlighting the acute need to counter Chinese propaganda and hold China accountable for the types of medical and political censorship that helped fuel the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. As Sen. Cruz said during his remarks: "We need to stand up and deal directly with the threat China poses. China bears direct responsibility, direct culpability, for...