Marsha Blackburn

This trend toward an all-powerful Administration must not continue in the next Administration.

It is inappropriate. We should be doing the oversight and making the determination of what is happening with these dollars.

What we have is an issue of jurisdiction. The jurisdiction is with the FTC, and they have the funds, and they do a good job of this. Let them do their job. Preemption--yes, that is something that we should discuss and pass in a privacy and…

A couple of thoughts there. Across-the-board reductions work. This is what we see our States use. Indeed, in Oklahoma, one of our former colleagues who is the Governor there, December, 3 percent cut, came back in March, 4 percent across…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. Each amount made available…

This amendment would prohibit funds made available by the act from being used to implement, administer, or enforce any of the rules proposed in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking adopted by the FCC on March 31, 2016. That is order FEC…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. None of the funds made…

I would remind my colleague across the aisle that it was individuals from his party over in the Senate that chose not to handle the Zika funding last week. That is very unfortunate. Zika is something that is going to be such a challenge…

I know especially our ranking member has been looking so forward to having this amendment come to the floor tonight because we have such great, robust discussions every year when I bring this amendment forward. It is calling for a 1…

A couple of points here. We have a privacy regulator. It is the Federal Trade Commission. The FTC has that jurisdiction. To add the FCC is going to cause confusion as to who is in charge of what. Everyone knows that. Do we need to pass a…

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the DMCA, as it is commonly known here in this Chamber, is nearly 20 years old. Now, just as a reminder, 20 years ago, Google was being born, Americans were out dancing the ``Macarena,'' and they were…

Here is the problem: the DMCA safe harbor provision. What this does, YouTube has created a platform where anyone with a smartphone can access nearly any song ever recorded. Often this content is infringed, and it does not--does…

We all know the facts from the Orlando attack, and they are absolutely heartbreaking. We know that the terrorist pledged his allegiance to ISIS before he carried out the assault and murder of 49 people. We also know that we need to be…

I think it does warn of exactly what we have talked about through the entire net neutrality debate which is Government overreach and getting outside of their set wheelhouse, if you will, and their authority that they are given.

We are concerned that what the FCC is seeking to do is going to end up doing less to protect consumer data, that it would be another of these false hopes that something is being done when indeed the opposite is happening.

It confirms the fears that Title II reclassification was more of a power grab than it was something that would be constructive.

I prefer being able to opt-in as opposed to having to opt-out.

The American people think they have taken hit after hit. And they have taken it right in the wallet. They are sick and tired of this. They feel like this economy has taken a meat-ax approach to their well-being. What they want to see is…

I will have to say that people do like across-the-board cuts. Indeed, many governors, Republican and Democrat alike, use these. From coast-to-coast, they have used these. And our constituents like them. Take a look at the December 2012…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. (a) Each amount made…

I want to begin by thanking the committee for the hard work that they have put into this bill and for the way the House has approved reducing our budget over the last several years. If every department of the Federal Government were to be…

doing pre-enrollment verification is really a fairness mechanism to be fair to everybody

I thank my colleagues for the work that they have done on this issue. Mr. Speaker, they have each mentioned the public-private partnership that has taken place in Tennessee and Mississippi and at the Shiloh National Military Park. I think…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. Each amount made available…

I know that the committee has worked hard to get a bill that is going to come into the numbers. Unfortunately, I disagree with the $1.070 trillion number that is in the Bipartisan Budget Act. I like the Budget Control Act's number of…