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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.
I am pleased to support H.R. 290, a bill to reform the FCC, sponsored by the chair of the full Committee on Energy and Commerce. Mr. Speaker, this bill has a unique history. It has been passed out of the House not once or twice, but four…
When disaster strikes, there is a lot of hard work to be done, and every second counts. First responders go into action for those that need help. Relief organizations and volunteers rush in to begin the process of cleaning up. Utilities…
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.
As we were home over the Christmas holiday break, so many calls that came into my office dealt with the ObamaCare issue--the rise in premiums, the lack of affordability. Here is one example. A 64-year-old man, his premiums $30,000…
I will just encourage my colleagues to join us in passing H.R. 288. As my colleague from California said, this is one of those commonsense measures. When you talk about removing the burden of regulatory overreach from our Nation's small…
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.
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.'
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.
What are your expectations? And then, do you have the necessary skill sets in order to do this?
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.
Who owns that data? Is it VW? Is it going to be the EPA? Who's going to own this data?
The select investigative panel was formed to investigate areas that, prior to the revelations of undercover journalists, received too little attention. For most of us, it is nothing short of an outrage that Planned Parenthood and other…
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…
I congratulate Chairman Upton and all of our colleagues on the Energy and Commerce Committee for a job well done, and done in the appropriate manner. It really has, as Ms. DeGette said, been so interesting to work across the country and…
Over the years, we have learned that this insular decision-making process at times directly conflicts with the informed views of expert physicians.
I want to thank the gentleman from California for his work in moving this legislation forward and also my colleague from Tennessee for joining me on this bill. It is such an honor to bring it forward and to push for the naming of the…
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…
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…
Congress must not allow Federal agencies to be making the individual health choices on behalf of providers.
I think that by 2020, the expectation is 3.4 billion devices that would be in this universe of connected.
The issue that we are looking at today and as a part of our Disrupter Series is something that is really important to my constituents in Tennessee.
This has been an interesting week for many of my constituents in Tennessee. Over 100,000 Tennesseeans were forced--100,000 Tennesseeans were forced off their healthcare plan. They did nothing wrong. It is not their fault. What has happened…
I thank the gentleman for yielding and for his work on this issue. I think we have to go back in history a little bit on this. ObamaCare was passed into law, signed into law, in 2010. A part of that law, by the way, we had to wait until it…
A recent HHS-OIG report found that the remaining CO- OPs are becoming financially insolvent. They are looking as if they, too, are going to go the way of the others that have failed. Not only does the failure of CO-OPs waste tax dollars…
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