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Press Releases 06/16/2025
ICYMI: Widespread Support for Senate Commerce Committee’s 800 MHz Spectrum Pipeline
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In case you missed it, leaders across the telecommunications industry and respected tech and economic policy voices endorsed the Senate Commerce Committee’s spectrum provision. The proposal, expected to be included in the Senate budget reconciliation text, marks a historic milestone by creating the largest spectrum pipeline ever and generating an estimated $85 billion for American taxpayers. Reinstating spectrum auction authority will boost the American economy, answer consumer demands, and strengthen American leadership in wireless technologies, while preserving key national security interests.
Press Releases 06/12/2025
Sen. Cruz: Mexican Cartels are Robbing Hardworking Texas Fishermen
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In his opening statement at today’s Senate Commerce Subcommittee on Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries hearing titled “Finding Nemo’s Future: Conflicts over Ocean Resources,” Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) sounded the alarm over the growing threat of Mexican cartels poaching fish from U.S. waters to finance illicit activities, harming the livelihoods of Texas fishermen, endangering Americans, and undermining global security and maritime stability.
Press Releases 06/11/2025
Sen. Cruz: FAA Nominee Needs to Bring the U.S. Aviation System Into the Modern Era
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In his opening statement at today’s Senate Commerce Committee confirmation hearing for the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) stressed the urgent need to modernize America’s aviation systems and integrate cutting-edge technologies like drones, air taxis, and commercial spaceflight. Sen. Cruz discussed the importance of the $12 billion designated for FAA’s modernization efforts in the Commerce Committee’s reconciliation title.
Press Releases 06/10/2025
On the Right Track: Modernizing America’s Rail Network
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Todd Young (R-Ind.), Chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Surface Transportation, Freight, Pipelines, and Safety, will convene a subcommittee hearing titled “On the Right Track: Modernizing America’s Rail” on Wednesday, June 18, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. EST. This hearing will examine the state of the U.S. freight and passenger rail network, with an emphasis on enhancing safety, improving efficiency, fostering innovation, and ensuring the long-term viability of the nation’s rail infrastructure to move American energy, goods, and people. The hearing will explore avenues for meaningful regulatory and policy reforms in the context of the upcoming surface transportation reauthorization.
Press Releases 06/10/2025
Sen. Cruz Applauds New NTIA Guidance Fixing Biden’s $42 Billion Internet Boondoggle
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Last week, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) released a Policy Notice issuing new guidance for the Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program. The new guidance ensures requested funds will be released this calendar year so long as a state proposal is technologically neutral and uses money efficiently. The Notice strips out time-consuming and unnecessary Biden-era central planning mandates, such as its extreme and costly technology bias, illegal rate regulation, and DEI labor requirements. Those edicts limited provider competition and delayed delivery of faster Internet to Americans.
Press Releases 06/10/2025
Sen. Cruz Continues to Lead Fight to Stop Big Tech Cancel Culture
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) reintroduced the Transparency in Enforcement, Restricting, and Monitoring of Services (TERMS) Act, which will prevent online service providers from weaponizing broadly worded terms of service agreements to silence customers and deny them access to essential business technologies over their political beliefs. The limited number of providers for some online services has forced conservative organizations to decide between conforming to restrictive woke demands or exercising their freedom of speech.
Press Releases 06/9/2025
Senate Committee Leaders Call for Audits on DCA Airspace Safety Issues
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Ranking Member Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Rand Paul (R-Ky.), and Ranking Member Gary Peters (D-Mich.) led their Senate colleagues in sending a letter to the Acting Inspector General of the Department of Transportation (DOT OIG) and the Inspector General of the Department of the Army (Army OIG) requesting concurrent audits in response to the January 29th midair collision between a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter and American Airlines 5342 near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport (DCA) as well as ongoing coordination issues between the Army and DCA air traffic control.
Press Releases 06/6/2025
WTAS: President Trump Congratulates Chairman Cruz for Spectrum Deal
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, President Trump applauded U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, for his deal on spectrum in the budget reconciliation text. Sen. Cruz worked with Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, and Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.), Chairman of the Senate Republican Conference and Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, to broker a deal on spectrum that bolsters American global leadership in wireless technologies.
Press Releases 06/5/2025
Chairman Cruz Releases Budget Reconciliation Text
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, unveiled his legislative directives for Senate Republicans’ budget reconciliation bill. The Commerce Committee’s reconciliation language will reduce deficits by more than $40 billion over a decade, rescind more than $1.4 billion in wasteful spending, revitalize the American economy, improve the nation’s transportation infrastructure, strengthen national security, and bolster domestic innovation and manufacturing.
Press Releases 06/4/2025
Senate Commerce Announces Nomination Hearing for Bryan Bedford to Lead the FAA
WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, will convene a nomination hearing for Bryan Bedford, nominee to be Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, at 10:00 AM EST on Wednesday, June 11, 2025.