WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -- Sen. Ted Cruz issued the following press release:
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Federal Courts, Oversight, Agency Action and Federal Rights joined Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights and Chris Coons (D-Del.) in introducing the Count the Crimes to Cut Act. The bill requires the Attorney General and the heads of other agencies to create and make available to the public lists of all federal criminal statutory offenses, including the elements for each offense.
Sen. Cruz said, "Criminal laws are opaque and scattered across thousands of pages of statutes and regulations, preventing Ameri...