Beer industry ad board issues ruling — only lawyer on board agrees that Mulvaney selection violated industry code against marketing to the under-aged WASHINGTON – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today applauded an opinion from Paul Summers—a former state appeals court judge and attorney general of Tennessee—who found that Bud Light’s sponsorship of […]
Highlights Past Bipartisan Efforts to Address Sexual Assault in the Military WASHINGTON, D.C. – At today’s Senate Commerce Committee subcommittee hearing on the U.S. Coast Guard, Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) expressed his deep concerns about disturbing reports of past sexual assaults at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and highlighted his bipartisan work to address […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas), and Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Joe Manchin (D-W.Va), announced that they had secured a bipartisan amendment to prevent the Biden administration from banning gas stoves in households across America in the Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Services and General Government […]
Casts Vote Against Anna Gomez and Geoffrey Starks, Supports Brendan Carr, Fara Damelin, and Alvin Brown WASHINGTON, D.C. – At today’s committee hearing to vote on nominations for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) voiced opposition to Anna Gomez and Geoffrey Starks to serve as FCC commissioners, noting that Gomez had […]
Requests Unanimous Consent to Pass Bipartisan Informing Consumers about Smart Devices Act, Receives Objection from Sen. Paul WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today took to the Senate floor requesting unanimous consent to pass his Informing Consumers about Smart Devices Act, bipartisan legislation he introduced with Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) […]
Sex assault prevention director attributes ‘misogyny and racism [to] same white, male root’ WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today sent a letter to Vice Admiral Joanna Nunan, the superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA), demanding answers about the safety of cadets in light of disturbing remarks […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the wake of Ford’s recent announcement that it will keep AM radio in its 2024 vehicles, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Sen. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) today sent a bipartisan letter to seven automakers that have either removed or plan to remove broadcast AM radio in […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) this week sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairwoman Lina Khan regarding the troubling drop in employee morale at the agency. Recent data from worker surveys show a decline in respect for the agency’s leadership and an uptick in agency employee […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In his opening statement at today’s committee hearing to consider nominations for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) criticized several recent FCC’s recent actions, including its unfair quashing of the Standard-General-TEGNA transaction and its failure to safeguard the taxpayer-funded American Connectivity Program from waste, fraud, and abuse. Sen. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Ranking Member Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today praised the Senate’s passage of his bipartisan legislation to help combat the rise in illicit use of the dangerous animal tranquilizer xylazine, or tranq. The Testing, Rapid Analysis, and Narcotic Quality (TRANQ) Research Act, which Sen. Cruz introduced with Sen. Peter Welch […]