US senators including James Risch who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Ted Cruz who chairs the Africa sub-committee and supports independence for Somaliland (AC Vol 67 No 1 Trump allies split over Mogadishu as Israel recognises breakaway Somaliland & Vol 67 No 5 Love me love my minerals) adamantly oppose funding for UN and AU operations in Somalia...

The lobbying priority will be weakening a bill sponsored by New Hampshire Democrat Jeanne Shaheen and Texas Republican and chair of the Senate sub-committee on Africa and Global Health Ted Cruz who have repeatedly accused Hassan and her Chama Cha Mapinduzi party of political repression and violence...

The first priority will be securing cross-party support for a bill tabled in the Senate on 13 March by three Republicans including Tom Cotton Rick Scott and Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee Ted Cruz who was runner-up to President Donald J Trump in the 2016 presidential primary...

Garcia's nomination has been submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chaired by Ted Cruz (Republican senator for Texas)...

Last November Republican Senator John Kennedy filed an AGOA extension bill calling for South Africa's removal and is backed by other staunch critics such as Ted Cruz Chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee...

Pro Christian and Biafran-secessionist groups have been tapping into the religious right and evangelical Christian organisations in the US for a couple of decades winning endorsement from senior Republican figures such as Ted Cruz (Texas R) who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and former Secretary of State (during Trump's first term) Mike Pompeo...

Gerasoulis a Republican fundraiser who has donated funds to Ted Cruz is trying to use the Trump administration's claims of genocide against Nigerian Christians to promote Biafra's independence...

Having been nominated in April Phee's confirmation had been held up for five months by Republican Senator Ted Cruz in protest at Biden's refusal to impose sanctions on Russia over the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline (AC Dispatches 19/4/21 Washington's front bench on Africa takes shape)...

Trump was initially attracted to CA by its work for his main rivals for the Republican presidential nomination Senator Ted Cruz and Ben Carson now Secretary for Housing and Urban Development...