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Marsha Blackburn Quotes

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.

– Marsha Blackburn

On energy, we should be exploring for domestic sources of energy.

– Marsha Blackburn

The American Dream is independence and being able to create that dream for yourself.

– Marsha Blackburn

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.

– Marsha Blackburn

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.

– Marsha Blackburn

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.

– Marsha Blackburn

I fear that light touch regulations that have allowed the Internet to prosper will now be replaced by a heavy hand that stifles innovation and does not adapt well to change. The Internet is not broken.

– Marsha Blackburn

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.

– Marsha Blackburn

We are a nation of laws with respect and recognition of the rule of law. We are not an imperialist government with a monarch abiding by the rule of one man.

– Marsha Blackburn

Every new rule, mandate, and regulatory edict is one more obstacle that small business owners, entrepreneurs, and job creators have to swallow.

– Marsha Blackburn

One of the most important tasks of the United States House of Representatives is to pass a budget resolution.

– Marsha Blackburn

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.

– Marsha Blackburn

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.

– Marsha Blackburn

I think people have found it very interesting that those that enforce ObamaCare, those that wrote Obamacare, are not a part of ObamaCare.

– Marsha Blackburn

We in Tennessee know that low taxes, less government, and less spending are the ways to grow our economy.

– Marsha Blackburn

There are some that feel like human activity is the cause for carbon emissions, and because of that, we need to revert to where we were in the 1870s for carbon emissions. I just choose to disagree with that.

– Marsha Blackburn

Technology is characterized by constant change, rapid innovation, creative destruction, and revolutionary products.

– Marsha Blackburn

Politicians like to confuse congressional spending with earmarks. There is a difference.

– Marsha Blackburn

An overly expansive virtual ‘toll’ for the Internet that blocks consumers’ and competitors’ access to the e-commerce superhighway is not the right answer.

– Marsha Blackburn

My legislation provides that Net Neutrality rules would have ‘no force or effect’ and prohibits similar rules from being published or re-issued.

– Marsha Blackburn

Republicans are not going to play I-told-you-so, but it is pretty obvious that the tax reductions passed in 2003 helped Americans dig out of a recession and get back to work.

– Marsha Blackburn

Reclassifying the Internet as a telecommunications service will have dangerous repercussions for years to come.

– Marsha Blackburn

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.

– Marsha Blackburn

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.

– Marsha Blackburn

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.

– Marsha Blackburn

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.

– Marsha Blackburn

More people are working in jobs that are interactive technology based or find a basis in intellectual property.

– Marsha Blackburn

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.

– Marsha Blackburn

Small business owners that are female, that is their number one problem, is access to capital.

– Marsha Blackburn

Women are the primary healthcare consumers in the country. 80 percent of all healthcare decisions are made by women.

– Marsha Blackburn

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