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Press Releases 10/1/2025
Executive Session 14
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a full committee Executive Session on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. ET to consider the following nominations and legislation:
Press Releases 10/1/2025
Shut Your App: How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a full committee hearing titled “Shut Your App: How Uncle Sam Jawboned Big Tech Into Silencing Americans” on Wednesday, October 8, 2025 at 10:30 AM EST. The hearing will examine how government agencies have used tactics to pressure Big Tech into censoring speech protected by the First Amendment, a practice known as “jawboning.”
Press Releases 09/29/2025
Cruz Investigation Reveals How the Biden Administration Weaponized CISA to Police Speech
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released an investigative report revealing how the Biden administration transformed the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) into an agent of censorship pressuring Big Tech to police speech.
Press Releases 09/24/2025
ICYMI: “Will AI’s Future be American?”
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) published an op-ed in RealClearWorld today emphasizing how the U.S. must win the AI race with China so that AI is infused with western, not authoritarian, values.
Press Releases 09/22/2025
Chairman Cruz Urges President Trump to Advocate for Raising the Pilot Retirement Age
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sent a letter to President Trump on Friday encouraging the United States to use its leadership at the 42nd General Assembly of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) this week to push to raise the mandatory commercial pilot retirement age.
Press Releases 09/19/2025
WTAS: Industry Leaders, Policy Experts Back Chairman Cruz’s AI Policy Framework and SANDBOX Act
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Key voices from academia, the policy world, and tech sector have endorsed Chairman Ted Cruz’s (R-Texas) new legislative framework for AI policy. The framework includes the Strengthening Artificial intelligence Normalization and Diffusion By Oversight and eXperimentation or SANDBOX Act, which is designed to drive AI advancements while ensuring transparency and regulatory guardrails.
Press Releases 09/19/2025
‘We Must Do Both:’ Commerce Chairman Ted Cruz Talks AI Acceleration, Risk Management at Axios and Politico Summits
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) this week joined Axios and Politico’s AI summits to discuss his new framework for AI policy, what’s at stake in the AI race, and the legislation he has passed and proposed to keep kids safe online.
Press Releases 09/18/2025
Chairman Cruz Announces Commerce Committee Staff Update
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee, announced Phoebe Keller has joined the committee as Communications Director. She has previously served in senior communications positions, most recently as Communications Advisor for the Senate Committee on Finance and Managing Director of Media Relations at the American Enterprise Institute. A native of New York, she is a former intern at the United States Supreme Court and a graduate of Cornell University.
Press Releases 09/17/2025
Sen. Cruz: The Development and Deployment of Technology Should Be Done the American Way
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In his opening statement at today’s Senate Commerce Committee nominations hearing, Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) highlighted the qualifications of the nominees under consideration and stressed they will play vital roles in improving transportation safety, securing American leadership in emerging technologies, and promoting economic growth.
Press Releases 09/17/2025
Commerce Committee Advances Nomination of Neil Jacobs to be NOAA Administrator
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation approved the nomination of Neil Jacobs to serve as the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere (NOAA Administrator). Mr. Jacobs was previously reported to the full Senate on a bipartisan basis by voice vote, but due to changes in Senate procedure around nominations, a roll call vote was necessary.

Speeches

Speeches 08/4/2021
Wicker Urges Need to Restore NTIA Protections in Infrastructure Bill
Speeches 06/15/2021
Wicker Speaks on USCG Act
Speeches 11/19/2019
Wicker Speaks on Upcoming STELAR Deadline
Speeches 07/17/2019
Wicker Commemorates 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11
Speeches 05/23/2019
Wicker Remarks on TRACED Act
Speeches 01/16/2019
Wicker Convenes First Committee Meeting of the 116th Congress
Speeches 12/12/2018
Thune Remarks on Sen. Nelson’s Time in the U.S. Senate
Speeches 10/2/2018
Thune Speaks on the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018
Speeches 09/28/2018
VIDEO: Thune Speaks at White House 5G Summit
Speeches 03/20/2018
VIDEO: Thune Calls on Colleagues to Support and Pass the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act

Op-Eds

Opinion Editorials 09/30/2021
Wicker in Washington Examiner: FTC must leave privacy legislating to Congress
Opinion Editorials 08/23/2021
Wicker in Defense News: The US Coast Guard urgently needs help
Opinion Editorials 01/27/2021
Wicker in The Washington Times: Protecting consumer data during the pandemic and beyond
Opinion Editorials 12/20/2020
Wicker in SpaceNews: Protecting our assets from space debris
Opinion Editorials 10/19/2020
Wicker and Sullivan in Defense News: Polar icebreakers are key to America’s national interest
Opinion Editorials 01/15/2020
Wicker and Sinema in USA Today: We need to prepare for internet of the future. Here's how Congress can help.
Opinion Editorials 12/3/2019
Wicker in the Sun Herald: Getting Stennis Space Center Ready for Liftoff
Opinion Editorials 12/3/2019
Wicker in The Hill: Pay America’s Coast Guard
Opinion Editorials 09/25/2018
Thune in The Hill: Protect and Innovate Online Privacy
Opinion Editorials 07/26/2018
Sen. John Thune and Rep. Lamar Smith in Dallas News: U.S. Must Win the Race Against China and Europe on Quantum Computing