“I think we can all unequivocally say in 2026, football is not going anywhere.”
“When giant corporations and Wall Street investors buy up all the fire truck manufacturers, it’s a threat to public safety.”
“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
“It is imperative that FEMA helps communities quickly respond to wildfires and increase their resilience to future wildfire disasters”
“They are picking houses the way you pick tomatoes at the grocery store.”
“Protecting and defending innocent life is and remains important to our Legislature, governor, attorney general and citizens.”

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On the recordSeptember 20, 2023
Our policy is that if the risk assessment indicates, we need to switch them to phone from text, and that was one of our--that was one of the things that we did wrong in this situation.
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Marsha Blackburn
Republican · Tennessee
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Blackburn questions the protocol for crisis line communication and highlights a failure in response.

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