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Bill Lee
@billlee· Republican · TN· Feb 20, 2025

I call up my amendment No. 922 and ask that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the amendment by number. The senior assistant legislative clerk read as follows: The Senator from Utah [Mr. Lee] proposes an…

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Bill Lee
@billlee· Republican · TN· Feb 20, 2025

I ask for the yeas and nays. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Is there a sufficient second? There appears to be a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk called the roll. The result was announced--yeas 53, nays 47, as…

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Bill Lee
@billlee· Republican · TN· Feb 20, 2025

Congress, not unelected, unaccountable bureaucrats, should be making our laws. Article I, section 7 of the Constitution requires nothing less. And yet we generate about 100,000 pages of new laws a year. This is choking the American people…

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Marsha Blackburn
@marshablackburn· Republican · TN· Feb 19, 2025

today, after 4 years of reckless spending and decades of high inflation under the Biden-Harris administration, our national debt now sits at $36.4 trillion. In many ways, this number represents one of the biggest threats to our Nation, as…

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Marsha Blackburn
@marshablackburn· Republican · TN· Feb 19, 2025

I have eight requests for committees to meet during today's session of the Senate. They have the approval of the Majority and Minority Leaders. Pursuant to rule XXVI, paragraph 5(a), of the Standing Rules of the Senate, the following…

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Tim Burchett
@timburchett· Republican · TN· Feb 17, 2025

Congress better get some guts and start backing [DOGE] up, or the next president could undo everything that's done.

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Tim Burchett
@timburchett· Republican · TN· Feb 17, 2025

There's a difference between members of the greatest generation… risking their life to serve our country, and young staffers going in with their computers.

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Tim Burchett
@timburchett· Republican · TN· Feb 17, 2025

There's a difference between civil service and checks and balances, in place of a small group and politicals who are going in.

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Marsha Blackburn
@marshablackburn· Republican · TN· Feb 13, 2025

People are leaving some of these blue states and coming to places like Tennessee.

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Marsha Blackburn
@marshablackburn· Republican · TN· Feb 13, 2025

We need to look at where those federal highway dollars are spent and placing them in areas with growing needs.

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Andy Ogles
@andyogles· Republican · TN· Feb 12, 2025

As of right now the votes are not there.

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Bill Lee
@billlee· Republican · TN· Feb 12, 2025

Vouchers will be only available to Tennessee citizens.

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Andy Ogles
@andyogles· Republican · TN· Feb 12, 2025

As it stands, I think it falls short … but it’s work in progress, and we’ll keep working on it.

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Marsha Blackburn
@marshablackburn· Republican · TN· Feb 12, 2025

I find it so interesting how people are watching so closely to see what this administration does, and I have been so pleased to see that the polling shows, by an overwhelming amount, 70 percent of the American people agree with how…

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Mark Green
@markgreen· Republican · TN· Feb 11, 2025

Our supply chain for food would be disrupted. Think of empty shelves on grocery stores, think of manufacturing grinding to a halt.

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Mark Green
@markgreen· Republican · TN· Feb 11, 2025

These weren't in the design specs, and they got placed in there without telling anybody.

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Marsha Blackburn
@marshablackburn· Republican · TN· Feb 10, 2025

I have been working on this for years, trying to get those records of who flew on Epstein's plane and who helped him build this international human trafficking, sex trafficking ring.

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Bill Hagerty
@billhagerty· Republican · TN· Feb 8, 2025

This is ridiculous. This is so beyond the pale.

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