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Blackburn promises to ‘be very thoughtful’ while shutting down government
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Monday said that she would be willing force a “thoughtful” shutdown of parts of the United States government if President Barack Obama did not agree to deep spending cuts. “What we want to make certain is that this president, this administration, this bureaucracy realizes that…
Rep. Blackburn: Now is the time to defund Planned Parenthood
Tuesday on Mike Huckabee’s radio program, Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) said she hoped to start the year off right by cutting federal funding for Planned Parenthood. “It is the right fight to have on so many different levels,” she said (MP3). “We know that Planned Parenthood is basically big abortion…
Rep. Blackburn: Republicans ‘are the party of big ideas’
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) on Sunday insisted that Republicans opposed raising taxes on the wealthy and supported cutting earned benefits like Social Security and Medicare because they were “the party of big ideas.” “Inside the [Republican] caucus, what people are looking at is how do we solve the system-wide problem,”…
GOP Rep. Blackburn suggests Democrats have more female career politicians
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) downplayed the Democratic party’s representative advantage when it came to women in congressional leadership Tuesday, suggesting that more of female Democrats are career politicians. “I think you will see more [women] in those positions at the federal level,” said Blackburn, who has served since 2003. “They…
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