Foreign Relations Committee Unanimously Adopts Cruz Amendment to Expedite Project Reviews Today, the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee adopted U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) amendment to streamline the presidential permitting process for building key bridges across the Rio Grande in Brownsville, Laredo, and Eagle Pass, Texas. The amendment, which was included in a bill authorizing funding for the State Department, secures a critical step in Sen. Cruz’s bicameral, bipartisan effort to see four international bridges that […]
