Republican News

September 16, 2024
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Letter Questions RAND’s Part in AI EO Drafting, Citing Past Censorship Work and Ties to Major AI Companies Funding Harris’s Campaign WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is questioning the Biden-Harris administration’s collaboration with the RAND Corporation, a think tank with Big Tech ties, citing RAND’s previous involvement in both […]

September 13, 2024
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New Penalties for Left-Wing Extremists Who Vandalize, Tampering with, and Disrupt American Energy Supplies  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is leading Senate Commerce Republicans in introducing the Safe and Secure Transportation of American Energy Act to protect American energy from attacks, or the threat of attacks, by radical […]

September 10, 2024
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Commerce Dept. failures leave key NOAA operations uncertain and unable to track bills WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) last week led a group of Senate colleagues in demanding answers regarding the implementation of the Department of Commerce’s (DOC) new financial management system, which has disrupted the National Oceanic […]

August 28, 2024
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One of those illegal aliens was later arrested in Massachusetts for aggravated rape  WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is demanding answers from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) regarding its ineffective management of airport security and vetting of illegal aliens, raising serious concerns about whether DHS and the […]

August 26, 2024
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Taxpayer-funded materials urge youth to join radical climate groups, promote outdated and anti-scientific claims  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) last week sent letters to the Administrators of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) demanding answers regarding the agencies’ alarmist educational […]

August 23, 2024
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New GAO report finds rising costs and weak FCC oversight   WASHINGTON, D.C. – This week, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report requested by U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) that found the Universal Service Fund (USF) operator is burning through cash with only minimal government oversight of its budget. […]

August 22, 2024
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Letter questions FTC’s use of a fringe, left-wing legal theory and controversial data method to guess individuals’ race for enforcement actions WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is seeking information from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) following an alarming report that the FTC is suing U.S. companies for millions […]

August 15, 2024
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Full commission to vote on George Soros’s purchase of Audacy’s nationwide radio network, broadcasting licenses  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) issued the following statement after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) decided to reverse course and honor Sen. Cruz’s request that the Soros Fund Management takeover of Audacy be thoroughly […]

August 13, 2024
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Letter requests body-camera footage, after-action reports, and measures to prevent future violence, vandalism WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is demanding answers from the director of National Park Service (NPS) regarding the Biden-Harris administration’s failure to deploy adequate resources to prevent the pro-Hamas riot at Union Station last month. […]

August 13, 2024
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Instead of connecting Americans, Internet Czar Harris and admin created billion-dollar slush fund to saddle BEAD with left-wing agenda  WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is demanding answers about a nearly billion-dollar administrative slush fund that the Biden-Harris administration took from a program meant to help connect Americans to […]