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Andy Ogles
@andyogles· Republican · TN· Feb 23, 2025

for up to but no more than three terms.

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Andy Ogles
@andyogles· Republican · TN· Feb 23, 2025

At no point in American history has the judiciary considered the surgical or chemical castration of healthy children to be a compelling or even legitimate health concern and it shouldn’t start now. We must protect our children from…

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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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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

article II of the U.S. Constitution declares the President of the United States to be the person who holds the executive power. He has the discretion to hire and fire those who work in executive branch Agencies. Now, for decades, staffing…

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

reducing energy costs for all Americans starts with reducing rent pay to develop our energy resources. If we built more gas pipelines, if we built more powerplants, more transmission lines, it will lower costs for consumers across the…

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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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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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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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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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James Reynolds
@jamesreynolds· TN· Feb 17, 2025

The case is just a tremendous miscarriage of justice, in my opinion.

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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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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 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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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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