Marsha Blackburn

We want to be the world leader, and we have got to have you work with us on this.

I want to thank you for your letter dealing with the spectrum auction in small businesses.

I think that the prelude to a successful auction... is to know how much spectrum that you have.

we cannot allow Federal agencies, through laziness, or lack of creativity, or lack of innovation, to squat on this spectrum.

Getting spectrum to the marketplace is where we need to have our focus.

I thank the gentleman from Virginia for so consistently working on this issue of how we deal with the criminal illegal alien population and also with the sanctuary cities. I thank Mr. Hunter for the work that he has done on this bill. I…

In Texas, the department of public safety released a report that, between 2008 and 2014, foreign aliens committed over 600,000 crimes and almost 3,000 murders in the State of Texas. That is the reason that we come here to address this…

I come to the floor this morning to talk for a few minutes about the primary issue that my constituents are talking about right now, and that is the issue of national security, homeland security, and how what is happening in the world is…

It is just their routine nature. This was not the first time they had done this. In listening to them, that is made very apparent.

I thank the gentleman. And I thank the gentleman for his leadership in organizing this hour. Mr. Speaker, we come to the floor tonight as mothers and grandmothers and dads and granddads, and we come with such heavy hearts and with such a…

Sitting here listening to my colleagues, I find it just so incredibly interesting that nearly everyone that is coming to the floor today is talking about an issue that centers on our Nation's security, whether it is our national security…

I thank the gentlewoman from North Carolina for pulling us together. Madam Speaker, when you talk about issues that are women's issues, right now national security is at the top of the heap. As we have talked about soccer moms and Walmart…

I do, indeed. The gentlewoman makes a point that is so very important, the readiness and the ability to fight 21st-century warfare on a lot of different fronts. Madam Speaker, my colleagues and I will say part of that is naming and knowing…

They have pointed out to you--let us not even start down that road. It is not a contribution.

What are you doing then to take an action, and what is your timeline?

Waste, fraud, and abuse is going to be targeted and it is going to be rooted out.

So basically you are giving yourself a year to come into compliance with something that you know has been a problem.

You seem to come here and punt, and we have got another report that came out this morning.

You don't deserve more money. You don't deserve it because you're not taking good care of the taxpayer dollars.

We need to come dock you that $10.3 billion. And by the way, that is just a 4-year window.

It is troublesome when we hear--and Ms. Maxwell, of course, you all have done so much work on this--with the voluntary nature of the reporting, and you have recommended that they make it mandatory.

Why does the job not get done? Is it not a priority?

You have got a list of recommendations. You have had waste, fraud, and abuse identified.

You are doing this wrong, you are wasting money, the fraud has been identified.

I do rise in opposition to this amendment. I think it is important to realize a couple of things. The American people have spoken out on this issue. Sixty-eight percent of all Americans oppose taxpayer dollars being used for abortions…