Currently holds the office of U.S. Senate - Texas until January 3, 2025.
Candidate for U.S. Senate - Texas in 2024 Texas General Election.
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Get StartedTed co-introduced the Support and Value Expectant (SAVE) Moms and Babies Act to strengthen federal control over chemical abortion drugs. Learn more
Ted has consistently voted for legislation that supports life and against pro-choice legislation including the Women’s Health Protect Act of 2021, which would have allowed doctors to refuse medical treatment to infants who survived an abortion and would allow for unborn children to be aborted by tearing them limb from limb. Learn more
Ted fought to protect faith-based foster care providers from discrimination based on their deeply held religious beliefs. Learn more
Ted unabashedly spoke out against cries to “Defund the Police.”. Learn more
Ted and Colleagues introduced the Back the Blue Act to provide law enforcement with more options for self-defense. Learn more
Ted led congressional investigations of how anti-American groups like Antifa exploit peaceful protests and use political violence. Learn more
Ted fought for veterans and successfully required the VA Secretary to provide Congress with a plan to address the long wait times for veterans seeking health care at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System. Learn more
Ted voted to pass the PACT Act, expanding healthcare benefits for Veterans. Learn more
Ted introduced the EL CHAPO Act, which would offset the costs of securing our border with the criminally forfeited assets of drug kingpins. Learn more
Ted helped pass the USMCA trade agreement, which benefits Texas agriculture, business and manufacturing communities. Learn more
Ted continues to lead the fight against federal government regulations and EPA overreach. Learn more
Ted introduced the Create Jobs Act to reform business expensing, and generate investment in America's Workforce. Learn more
Ted believes school choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st Century. He has passionately fought for education freedom. Learn more
Ted’s Student Opportunity Amendment—now law—expanded 529 College Savings Plans to include K-12 elementary and secondary school tuition for public, private, and religious schools. It is the most far-reaching federal school choice legislation ever enacted. Learn more
Ted forced the Biden administration to get approval for Texas and American companies to secure four major LNG export permits to sell American energy overseas. Learn more
He is also leading the fight in the Senate to support Texas jobs, hold Big Tech accountable to the American people, secure the border, fundamentally reassess the U.S.-China relationship and hold the Chinese Communist Party accountable for covering up the coronavirus pandemic, committing human rights atrocities, and engaging in censorship, propaganda, and espionage in the United States. Learn more
Ted is a fierce proponent of transparency in our elections, which is why he will continue to hold Big Tech accountable for their blatant bias and for obstructing important information from reaching voters, such as the truth about the Hunter Biden laptop. Learn more
Ted sponsored and championed concealed-carry reciprocity legislation. Learn more
Ted led the fight in Congress to stop legislation that would restrict the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding Americans. Learn more
Ted introduced a comprehensive border security amendment to the national security supplemental. Learn more
Ted introduced The Stop Dangerous Sanctuary Cities Act, to allow local law enforcement to cooperate with federal immigration authorities and pull taxpayer-funded grants to sanctuary cities. Learn more
Ted has been unrelentless in calling out Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland for their dereliction of duty and failing to secure our country's southern border. Learn more
Ted authored numerous successful relief bills in the Senate to increase the funds available to hurricane victims and increased the overall amount of funding for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for flood prevention projects, as well as for funding other mitigation activities under the Community Development Block Grant and the Disaster Recovery program. Learn more
Ted led a bipartisan and bicameral coalition to cut through bureaucratic red tape to streamline the expansion of four key bridges along the Mexican border which bring over 800 billion of trade and commerce into Texas and America. Learn more
Ted co-introduced the bipartisan bill to expand the Starr-Camargo bridge to improve the economy of Texas, upgrading infrastructure for the prosperity of the state. Learn more
Ted is proud to stand alongside all female athletes and will continue to fight for their right to play sports on their own terms, without fear of being forced to compete against biological men. Learn more
Ted authored numerous successful relief bills in the Senate to increase the funds available to hurricane victims and increased the overall amount of funding for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for flood prevention projects, as well as for funding other mitigation activities under the Community Development Block Grant and the Disaster Recovery program. Learn more
Ted’s record against reckless spending is strong. He led opposition against Joe Biden’s reckless bill that drove up spending and inflation and created an 80 billion slush fund to hire up to 87,000 new IRS agents whose sole purpose is to harass the American public. Learn more
Ted led the fight to pass historic tax reform in 2017, cutting taxes for nearly every taxpayer in the country. He’s now fighting to make the tax cuts for individual Texans permanent. Learn more
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