Marsha Blackburn
Marsha Blackburn
Marsha Wedgeworth Blackburnis an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, she represents Tennessee's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth6 June 1952
CountryUnited States of America
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Across the board spending reductions would create significant savings while allowing agencies to determine what they can most afford to cut, ... This approach will cut through the partisan wrangling over specific projects. We shouldn't allow the push for spending reductions to get bogged down in debate. I believe this approach is one we should all be able to support. In Tennessee I proposed similar cuts in spending and we've seen those reductions work.
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I firmly believe that the most important feature of spending the people's money is complete transparency.
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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.
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I believed these cuts were necessary several years ago, and I believe they're necessary now, ... Fortunately we've made progress in making our spending concerns a front burner issue in Washington.
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Every new rule, mandate, and regulatory edict is one more obstacle that small business owners, entrepreneurs, and job creators have to swallow.
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A conservative vision to tech issues assumes the imperfection of mankind and a preference for markets - not politics - to drive outcomes.
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Small business owners that are female, that is their number one problem, is access to capital.
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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?'
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We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back.
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We don't want the federal government to shut down. It is so inappropriate, and it is not respectful of the people that have sent us here to do our jobs.
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Women are the primary healthcare consumers in the country. 80 percent of all healthcare decisions are made by women.
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What I want to do is make certain that no one's taxes go up. Let's look at cleaning up the tax code.
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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.
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FCC Commissioner Robert McDowell has said that several foreign dignitaries personally spoke to him about creating a new Internet user fee to subsidize an international universal service fund at the expense of traditional end users.