Ted Cruz
U.S. Senator from Texas
Rafael Edward “Ted” Cruz was born in December 1970 in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, moving to Texas as a youth. He earned an undergraduate degree in public policy from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He received a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. He clerked at the U.S. Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and later with Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court William Rehnquist. He entered into private practice.
During the George W. Bush administration, Cruz served as an Associate Deputy Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice and later as the director of policy planning at the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. He was appointed to the office of Solicitor General of Texas by the governor, serving in that position for six years, returning once again to private practice.
He was elected to the United States Senate, assuming his seat in January 2013. He was a primary candidate in the 2020 presidential election.
Cruz is married to Heidi Nelson, and they have two daughters. He is a Southern Baptist.
In the News…
Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on Africa, and Global Health Policy, recently introduced the Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act of 2025. The legislation, which was supported by Senators Tom Cotton and John Boozman of Arkansas, Rick Scott and Ashley Moody of Florida, and Dave McCormick of Pennsylvania, would modernize the strategy for designating Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group.
Senator Cruz stated, “The Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization, and it provides support to Muslim Brotherhood branches that are terrorist organizations. One of those branches is Hamas, which on October 7 committed the worst single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust, which included the murder and kidnapping of at least 53 Americans.“
The senator continued, “They are committed to the overthrow and destruction of America and other non-Islamist governments across the world, and pose an acute threat to American national security interests. American allies in the Middle East and Europe have already labeled the Brotherhood a terrorist organization, and the United States should do the same, and do so expeditiously.”
Representative Mario Díaz-Balart of Florida introduced similar legislation in the House of Representatives. Austria, Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and United Arab Emirates are nations that have already designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist organization.
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The Honorable Ted Cruz
Senator from Texas
167 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
