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On the recordMarch 24, 2020
Madam President, as we are all facing this, we are hearing from our Tennesseans; we are hearing from small businesses; and people are trying to hang on to every piece of information they can get. It helps them to stay informed, and we encourage everyone: Stay informed. Stay up to the minute. Talk to us. Be on our websites and social media. We all want to get to you the information you need as quickly as we get it because that is how we are going to defeat this--by realizing that we are all in this together, and it is going to take every single one of us doing our part to get past it. In my family, we had this mantra that we grew up with, and it was kind of my mother's way of saying: Don't sit around and wait. Do things. And it was--there were two things she would always say: Leave things in better shape than you found them. In other words, always be helping to improve a situation. Leave things in better shape than you found them. She would always say ``Give back more than you take,'' stressing to us the importance of being a giver to our community, to our family, to our society, and not being a taker, sitting around feeling like you are entitled and you want people to bring things to you.…
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Marsha Blackburn
Republican · Tennessee

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