Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar issued guidance today to members of the Legislature who might wish to decline or return all or part of their salaries and per diems to the state treasury. “Certain members of the Texas Legislature have made […]
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Sen. Cruz on the Senate Floor: ‘To the People of Cuba, We Stand With You—You Have a Right to be Free’
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), today delivered remarks on the Senate floor in support of the men and women of Cuba as they fight against their tyrannical communist regime and urged President Biden to […]
Sen. Cruz Introduces Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Parental Rights of Military Academy Cadets
The CADET Act ensures students of the academies who have unplanned pregnancies can retain legal guardianship U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) today introduced the ‘Candidates Afforded Dignity, Equality and Training Act of 2021,’ or CADET Act, mandating […]
Sen. Cruz Introduces Bill to Sanction Iran Supreme Leader and President-Elect
U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Kevin Cramer (R-N.D.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Roger Marshall (R-Kan.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Rick Scott (R-Fla.), Mike Rounds (R-S.D.), Mike […]
Sen. Cruz: South Texas COVID Rates are Rising Because of the Biden-Harris Border Crisis
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today joined his Republican colleagues in calling on the Biden-Harris administration to address the humanitarian, national security, and most recently, public health crisis on our southern border. As rates of COVID-19 […]
Texas Goes Head-to-Head with the Feds: Public Health Immigration Laws Must be Enforced at the Border
This week, Attorney General Ken Paxton filed Texas’s reply brief demanding that the Biden Administration enforce public health immigration law at the border. A Federal District Court in Fort Worth heard oral argument on Tuesday. The State of Texas is […]
Paxton Commends 5th Circuit’s Decision Upholding the First Amendment Rights of Members of the State Bar of Texas
Attorney General Ken Paxton commends the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s recent decision in McDonald v. Longley, which held that the State Bar of Texas violated the First Amendment rights of its members—who must join and […]
Sen. Cruz Issues Statement on IRS Granting Texas Christian Nonprofit Tax-Exempt Status
Last month, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Congressional colleagues sent a letter to IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig expressing concerns regarding the IRS’s denial of tax-exempt status for a Texas nonprofit, Christians Engaged. Sen. Cruz today issued the following statement after the IRS […]
Sen. Cruz Leads Colleagues in Bipartisan Legislation Highlighting Cuban Regime Human Rights Violations, Honoring Dissident Oswaldo Payá
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today introduced legislation with Sens. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.), and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) to rename the street outside the Cuban Embassy in Washington D.C. “Oswaldo […]
Sen. Cruz Issues Statement on January 6 Commission
‘With multiple investigations already underway, I do not support the politically motivated January 6 Commission led by Sen. Schumer and Speaker Pelosi’ U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today issued the following statement in opposition to the Senate commission investigating the January 6 […]
