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Marsha Blackburn

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Marsha Blackburn is an American politician serving as the junior United States senator from Tennessee since January 3, 2019. A member of the Republican Party, she previously represented Tennessee's 7th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from January 7, 2003, to January 3, 2019. Blackburn has been an advocate for conservative policies, focusing on issues such as healthcare, tax reform, and technology regulation. She has been vocal on various national issues, often emphasizing her commitment to protecting individual liberties and promoting economic growth.

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Mar 20, 2017

People want broadband as much as new roads. Republicans and Democrats are eager to work together to solve this problem.

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Mar 20, 2017

The 5G revolution is upon us, and we should modernize our laws to address issues such as tower siting and federal rights-of-way.

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Mar 20, 2017

Broadband is the infrastructure challenge of this decade, and the digital divide continues to frustrate so many Americans.

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Mar 20, 2017

We must cut through the red tape by streamlining permitting processes and implement accurate availability of data in order to solve the broadband dilemma.

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Feb 21, 2017

We know that there is organizing going on by those that are on the left.

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Feb 21, 2017

The anger indeed was real from the individuals that were in the room.

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Feb 1, 2017

My bill is just very straightforward and you need to prove why you need that special enrollment period.

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Feb 1, 2017

I think that if we have a special enrollment period and one is necessary that it is out of fairness to the taxpayer and to the integrity of a program that an individual before they are admitted to a program that they prove that they need…

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Feb 1, 2017

It is far past time that we again reauthorize the agency, and a first step in the process is to examine the role of the agency, past, present, and future in crafting policies that will achieve our shared goals.

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Jan 23, 2017

At this time I yield such time as he may consume to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. Walden), the author of the legislation and the chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee.

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Dec 21, 2016

Transparency is always going to end up being a good thing at the end of the day. And putting some sunshine on how things are done at the Pentagon, I think is going to serve the taxpayer very well.

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Dec 21, 2016

I think that it is our responsibility to know who is coming into our country. Ronald Reagan said, 'If you cannot control your borders, you can't control your country.'

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Dec 21, 2016

What you're going to see from Mr. Trump is he is always going the lead from a position of strength, not from a position of weakness and indeed President Obama has been a proponent of strengthening our nuclear arsenal.

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Dec 5, 2016

Who owns that data? Is it VW? Is it going to be the EPA? Who's going to own this data?

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Dec 5, 2016

What are your expectations? And then, do you have the necessary skill sets in order to do this?

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Dec 5, 2016

I want to thank you all for being here. And as the chairman said, we have some questions about EPA and their role and their ability to oversee this.

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Dec 1, 2016

To provide just a snapshot of the 51 known external audits of Planned Parenthood clinics, nearly all found title XIX overpayments for family planning and reproductive health service claims. The overbilling totalled more than $8.5 million…

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Nov 29, 2016

One clarification for the record. Going back to what Mr. Collins had said, going to the USPSTF Web site, I think we do want to note that under the standards for guidelines and development, in that section, they absolutely do not list that…

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Nov 29, 2016

Our colleague, vice chair of the full committee, Representative Marsha Blackburn, has a legislative discussion draft entitled, 'USPSTF Transparency and Accountability Act of 2016,' which would require specialists and subspecialists to be…

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Nov 29, 2016

Over the years, we have learned that this insular decision-making process at times directly conflicts with the informed views of expert physicians.

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Nov 29, 2016

Health decisions in the country must remain between doctors and patients.

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Nov 29, 2016

Congress must not allow Federal agencies to be making the individual health choices on behalf of providers.

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Nov 15, 2016

I think that by 2020, the expectation is 3.4 billion devices that would be in this universe of connected.

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