WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) today introduced the Safe Kids, Safe Schools, Safe Communities Act of 2022, legislation that would dedicate over $38 billion to make our schools and communities safer, including funding enhanced school security and doubling the number of school resource officers in America’s schools, investing in school mental health professionals and reducing gun violence. The funds appropriated by their proposal would be fully paid for with […]
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Sen. Cruz Introduces SHIELD Act to Preserve Title 42 Expulsions of Illegal Immigrants
U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), and Bill Hagerty (R-Tenn.) today introduced the ‘Securing the Homeland from International Entrants with Life-threatening Diseases Act,’ or SHIELD Act, to codify the previous administration’s public health order under Title 42 that required U.S. border officials to promptly remove illegal immigrants to prevent the spread of COVID-19. This bill would prevent President Biden from […]
Sens. Cruz, Young, Barrasso, Rubio Call for Use of Congressional Leverage, Halt to Climate Office Until Kerry Addresses Evidence He Shared Intelligence on Israel with Iran
U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Todd Young (R-Ind.), John Barrasso (R-Wyo.), and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC), today sent a letter to SFRC Chairman Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) urging a hold of the Congressional notification to move $2.5 million of taxpayer funds to establish John Kerry’s new Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate, until the former Secretary of State answers the senators’ questions on his reported disclosure of covert Israeli actions against Iranian interests in Syria to Iran’s Foreign […]