Should TSA receive increased funding when passenger traffic over the past decade has declined by 30 million passengers a year?
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.
Tell me what you know is going to happen with Medicare, are we really in danger of going bankrupt.
You had said in your January 11th letter to Chairman Ryan that you were going to have it done as soon as possible.
Given TVA's debt constraints and the impact to the Federal deficit of its increasing capital expenditures, the Administration intends to undertake a strategic review of options for addressing TVA's financial situation, including the…
My class, when we came into Congress, we were focused on waste, fraud and abuse.
If we did a better job managing our funds, we probably would not have those negotiations.
You need to follow up. Well, do you believe that the federal agencies should follow the law?
We think we do a pretty good job of it. And one of the frustrations that we are hearing from so many of our manufacturers is the debilitating effect that overreaching government agencies, regulatory agencies, are having on their ability to…
And I thank the gentleman for yielding. And thank you, Mr. Chairman, for the hearing.
I thank the gentleman from Wisconsin, our chairman, for the outstanding work that he has done, and to all of my colleagues on the House Budget Committee for how diligent we've been in bringing forward a budget that is responsible and is a…
Five hundred thousand jobs are attributed to your sector, and you are one of the few areas where there has actually been some job growth since the misery that was there in 2008 and 2009.
If they go heavy-handed on this, does it stifle all the innovation? Does it shut it off?
And one of the lessons learned is that having access to the queue is not the same thing as having access to the physician.
I just want to note that that is actually going to be a 2-year bump and not a full-time, long-term payment.
What we want to do and what I have heard from my colleagues across the aisle even--I am happy to hear them talk about solving this problem and this access-to-care problem, because the more Federal intervention you have, the worse the…
I think that the real crime is to sit by and do nothing and say we are just going to be content with the status quo and not look at how we solve this problem.
I thank the gentleman for the time. Mr. Speaker, talking about burning issues, I don't know of anything that is more pressing than dealing with this Nation's debt. You can go back through the pages and look at what Admiral Mullen had to…
I think that it is noteworthy that we also put some of the attention on stalking, the need to address this; that we look at the need for additional education so that some day we can say, yes, indeed, local law enforcement is fully equipped…
I thank the gentlelady from Washington for the leadership that she has brought to this issue, and I also stand to thank Leader Cantor and the leadership that he has placed on this. It's an incredible thing when you think about we still…
Our goal is to make certain that we do have a free and open Internet, not only here in the United States but globally.
I thank the gentleman from New Jersey for the excellent work that he continues to do, year in and year out, on this issue. I appreciate his leadership. We do stand today and mark the 40th anniversary of the tragic Roe v. Wade decision, and…





