Words matter. These are the best Marsha Blackburn Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
We need to work to repeal Obamacare and replace it with the kind of health care choices that the American people want. That doesn’t include government-run health care.
Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country.
Every new rule, mandate, and regulatory edict is one more obstacle that small business owners, entrepreneurs, and job creators have to swallow.
Earmarks are almost always inserted by a member of Congress without any notice to other members, and without a chance for Congress as a whole to debate a particular earmark as they relate to national priorities.
To get our economy back on track and keep it functioning properly without the problems of our financial institutions, we need reasonable regulations that will protect Main Street while at the same time allow Wall Street to do what it does best – make money for American investors.
I’ve talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health.
This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy.
As far as the political landscape in our state, I think that what we continue to see is that Tennessean voters are more independent and more conservative, and they are watching issues very closely; they are watching votes very closely.
It is Republicans that have led the fight for women’s equality. Go back through history and look at who was the first woman to ever vote, elected to office, go to Congress.
We all learned in kindergarten that the beginning is a very good place to start. As we have this debate on illegal immigration and illegal entry into this country, let’s begin at the very beginning by sealing the borders to this great Nation.
You do not need 435 people playing commander-in-chief.
My hope is that we’re going to be more strategic and focused as we look for a way to address the long-term deficit and debt issues that are affecting this nation.
We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do.
Some people like to drive a Ford, not a Ferrari, and some people like to drink out of a red Solo cup, not out of a crystal stem.
The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.
We don’t need unelected federal agency bureaucrats in Washington telling our states what they can and can’t do with respect to protecting their limited taxpayer dollars in private enterprises.
What I want to do is make certain that no one’s taxes go up. Let’s look at cleaning up the tax code.
You might have noticed Harry Reid is a little upset with Americans for Prosperity. Let me tell you, when the Democrat leader is complaining about you on the Senate floor, you know you are doing something right.
I support safeguarding users’ personally identifiable information and sensitive data like health or financial records. I also believe the government has a responsibility to punish deceptive and unfair practices that defy reasonable expectations about consumers’ privacy.
We do thank our men and women in uniform. And I thank them. I thank this House today that approved a bill that will allow for a pay raise for our military. We are grateful for that and for the actions of this body.
While all Republicans acknowledge that there were mistakes made during the Bush Administration, again the continuous pointing a finger at President Bush has gotten tiresome.
Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.
The Budget Act of 1974 established a timetable for the annual budget process. Under Title III of the Act, Congress is to complete action on the concurrent resolution on the budget by April 15.
We’ve already seen the federal government stretch their regulatory tentacles into our homes and determine what kind of light bulbs we have to use.
I often quote Ronald Reagan, who is pretty close to my favorite President ever, I will have to say that, but one of my favorite remarks he ever made was that when you look at Federal programs, there is nothing so close to eternal life on Earth as a Federal Government program.
We should be careful and deliberate in how we allow public entry into our vibrant communications marketplace… This is an issue that should be left to our states.
If the expansion of a global legal regime for communication technologies gains traction, the effects to the global economy as well as our individual liberties will be severe.
Liberals are very much afraid of conservative women, and here’s the reason why – more people agree with us. They want the government to have less control over their lives.
We need to protect the sovereignty of our nation, and we need to protect the security of our people here in the country.
The Obama Administration continues to talk about the ‘policies of the past’ and insist that a return to those policies will lead to disaster.
We are for abiding by the Constitution and recognize that Article I, Section 8, Clause 4 enumerates the power of establishing ‘an uniform process of naturalization’ to the Congress.
Some of the school districts in my congressional district are looking at resource officers and how they secure that environment.
My goodness, the Democrats have just become the party of punishment, and they are carrying that to the extreme when it comes to health care.
The No. 1 issue with women in this country is jobs, and the No. 2 issue is our national security. So, economic security, national security and retirement security.
The Dodd Bill does very little to reduce financial risks. What it will do is make Wall Street even more the servant of bureaucrats in Washington and the political party in power. That is not in the best interests of the American people.
I’ve always said that I didn’t want to be given a job because I was a female, I wanted it because I was the most well-qualified person for the job. And making certain that companies are going to move forward in that vein, that is what women want.
I remember my first job, when I was working in a retail store down there, growing up in Laurel, Mississippi. I was making, like, $2.15 an hour. And I was taught how to responsibly handle those customer interactions.
The American people have made it abundantly clear that they want less government, not more. They want problems solved in a bipartisan manner, not the creation of new problems.
Net Neutrality originally referred to management of the ‘last mile’ of the network over which data flows into a person’s home, but the debate has grown beyond that in recent years.
What’s the top area of concern? What’s the top issue? National security. That is what people think about night. ‘Are my children going to be safe? Am I going to be safe when I’m out and about in the community?’
Here in Tennessee, instead of the big spending, big government, job killing agenda of the Obama Administration, Tennesseans have tightened their belts and are struggling to find jobs that will enable them to support their families.
Business models change. As technology processes, business models change.
Liberals in Congress have spent the past three decades pandering to environmental extremists. The policies they have put in place are in large part responsible for the energy crunch we are seeing today. We have not built a refinery in this country for 30 years.
This majority is working for America, and one of those ways is we have tremendously low unemployment. This economy has created millions of new jobs, and we are expecting growth this first quarter of somewhere higher than 4 percent.
The right of liberty is God-given and immortal. It cannot be regulated. Or controlled. It cannot be banned. And it must not be restricted.
The American Dream is not being dependent on the federal government for your health care, for your automobile, for your college education, for your student loan on and on and on.
Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem; government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.
Republicans are willing to support and vote for realistic, meaningful financial reform.
Our creative communities in Nashville, in L.A. and New York, and in Austin, those are communities you want to see stay viable.
I would love for women to be focused on maximum wage, and I have fought to be recognized with equality for a long time.
