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 […]
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Cruz, Cassidy, Senate Republicans Blast Biden Administration for Playing Politics with U.S. Energy
Administration is Deliberately Pausing U.S. LNG Export Permitting to Court Radical Environmental Voters WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Bill Cassidy, M.D. (R-La.) led 25 Republican colleagues in blasting the Biden administration for pausing all pending non-Free Trade Agreement countries (FTA) export permit applications at the behest of the radical climate lobby. The letter to President Biden and Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm comes in response to the administration’s announcement to suddenly […]
Cruz, Brown Introduce New Legislation to Bolster U.S. Transformer Supply Chains and Protect American Energy Independence
Legislation Would Ensure Department of Energy Policy Doesn’t Hurt Domestic Production of Transformers, a Key Input in Energy Grids; Brown-Cruz Bill Proposes New Standard that Promotes Efficiency While Strengthening U.S. Transformer Production WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) introduced new legislation – The Distribution Transformer Efficiency & Supply Chain Reliability Act of 2024 – that would bolster the U.S. transformer supply chain, an important part of electricity grids, by setting new realistic energy […]
Cruz, Braun, Risch Introduce Bill to Increase Healthcare Accessibility
WASHINGTON, D.C.—U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), and James Risch (R-Idaho) introduced the Personalized Care Act (PCA), legislation to make Americans’ health care more portable, accessible, and tailored to meet their unique needs by dramatically expanding Heath Savings Accounts (HSA) – a pre-tax savings tool millions of Americans use to cover the costs of their health care. About the PCA, Sen. Cruz said: “I am proud to lead the fight to increase accessibility to healthcare. By considerably […]
Cruz, Cornyn Introduce Bill to Honor Fallen Border Patrol Agent
Bill Would Name McAllen Post Office After Agent Raul Gonzalez, Jr. WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) have introduced a bill to name a United States Postal Service (USPS) office in McAllen, Texas, in honor of Border Patrol Agent Raul Gonzalez, Jr., who died in the line of duty last year. About the bill, Sen. Cruz said, “I’m proud to support the renaming of the McAllen United States Postal Service to the Agent […]
Cruz, Cornyn Introduce Senate Resolution Celebrating Texas Tech Centennial
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) introduced a Senate resolution celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of Texas Tech University. Text is below, and you can view the full resolution here. “Whereas, in 2023, Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas, is celebrating the 100th anniversary of the founding of the University; Whereas, established as Texas Technological College in 1923, the University opened 2 years later with an enrollment of 914 undergraduate […]
Cruz, Colleagues Call on Blinken to Reverse Biden Administration’s New Antisemitic Israel Boycott
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken calling on him to rescind discriminatory guidance issued by the State Department halting bilateral scientific and technological cooperation in certain Israeli-held territories. The following Senators joined Sen. Cruz as cosigners of the letter: Sens. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), John Cornyn (R-Texas), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.), Ted […]
Cruz, Cornyn, Colleagues to Visit Texas-Mexico Border Amidst Unrelenting Illegal Immigration Crisis
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) will lead their colleagues James Lankford (R-Okla.), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) on a visit to the Rio Grande Valley on July 14 and 15 to survey the current state of the U.S.-Mexico border. The senators will be briefed by the National Border Patrol Council (NBPC), as well as U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP),Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), Texas […]
Cruz, Senators Demand Commerce Secretary Stop Permitting Delays on Existing Oil and Gas Leases to Boost Production
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) along with Senators John Cornyn (R-Texas), Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.), Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), John Thune (R-S.D.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Mike Lee (R-Utah), James Inhofe (R-Okla.), Bill Cassidy (R-La.), Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), Roger Wicker (Miss.), James Lankford (Okla.), John Barrasso (Wyo.), Richard Shelby (R-Ala.), Cindy Hyde-Smith (Miss.), Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) sent a letter to President Biden’s Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo calling for the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to quickly issue […]
Cruz, Cornyn, Babin Call On NASA to Award Lunar Lander Program to Johnson Space Center
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In response to a news report that NASA will designate the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, to lead the development of the human-classed lunar lander for the Artemis program over the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas – which has served as NASA’s lead center for human spaceflight for more than half a century – U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Cornyn (R-Texas) along with Rep. Brian Babin (R-Texas) today urged NASA […]