Congressman Marsha Blackburn (TN-7) was sworn in today for her 4th term representing Tennessee’s 7th District, which runs from suburban Memphis, through Nashville, to Clarksville Tennessee.
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Four months ago a promising young man named Jamiel Shaw was gunned down in Los Angeles by a criminal alien who was freed from prison only the day before. Community members were shocked and saddened by another victim claimed to gang violence. Thousands turned out to say goodbye during the student-athlete's funeral. But weeks later an investigation revealed Shaw's assailant was no ordinary gang member. Pedro Espinoza, it turns out, was instead a violent criminal alien released from prison (and not turned over the Federal government) on March 1st, exactly one day before he murdered the seventeen year-old Shaw. Sorrow turned to anger, and a demand for action.
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Today, Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) joined fellow Republicans in voting to defeat a massive spending bill that fails to fund war fighters in Iraq, puts civilian jobs in the Department of Defense in jeopardy of furlough, and fails to secure our nation's borders. "Tonight, the Democrat majority made up for months of inactivity and mismanagement by rolling eleven pieces of legislation into the largest omnibus bill ever passed by Congress. Now, as Democrat leaders look forward to pork-laden h...
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Congressman Marsha Blackburn moved to rein in the liberal Leadership's move to "slow motion socialism" by voting to sustain President Bush's veto of H.R. 976.
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Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today introduced legislation designed to implement an efficient system of identifying and removing violent criminal illegal immigrants, while denying specific federal funding to American "Sanctuary Cities" that protect violent criminal aliens.
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Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) today reacted with extreme disappointment at the deal brokered by a bipartisan group of senators that allows illegal immigrants a path to amnesty and the right to vote. "Either you stand on principle or you stand for nothing. To me, these senators are playing politics with the sovereignty of the United States. It is completely arrogant and irresponsible to use the security of the American people and the sovereignty of the United States as a bargaining chip to ...
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