Marsha Blackburn Quotes
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I am every single day talking with and working with people in my district who are seeing their health care insurance costs go up five times, 105 percent, 300 percent, that are getting pay cuts, that are losing 40-hour workweeks, that are having to work two and three jobs.
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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.
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Even the president's own Science and Technology Office head Mister Holdren says no one single weather event is due specifically to climate change.
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Yes, what has happened is we have moved from responding to these terrorist attacks as acts of civil disobedience to getting to the point after September 11 that we said, no, this is not just civil disobedience, this is an act of war.
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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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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.
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Republicans are willing to support and vote for realistic, meaningful financial reform.
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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.
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Now, 'the fiscal cliff' is a name that the media came up with, but some of us have been saying for years, 'You have got to stop the out of control federal spending, or you will end up at this point.' We're there.
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There's an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy.
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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.
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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.
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Many women are heads of households. Many are the primary wage earners for their families.
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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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Our tax policies, the tax relief and reform we passed in 2003 and 2005, helped get government out of the way of America's entrepreneurs, and our unemployment rate is now lower than it was in the 1970s, the 1980s, and the 1990s.
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New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.
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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.
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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.
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We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.
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If a president can enforce a part of a law and delay a part of a law, then does he have a power to not enforce any law he so chooses? If he can allow illegal aliens to freely run across our border, can he force legal citizens out of the country? Where would be the end of his power?
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In this dangerous world that we live in, where hatred and violence and natural disasters sometimes collide to almost overwhelm us, we each can help in some way.
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Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation.
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Any spending should be debated openly on the floor of the House and voted on in open session, with the American people having a chance to watch and listen.
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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.