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Marsha Blackburn

Marsha Blackburn, a native of Laurel, Miss., was first elected to represent Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District in 2002. Blackburn was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2018,

Marsha Blackburn

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By Tom Kertscher
March 22, 2022

Ketanji Brown Jackson "gave a lecture talking about critical race theory as one of the components to consider when you are making decisions on the…

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By Amy Sherman
March 22, 2022

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson advocated that “each and every criminal defendant in D.C. Corrections custody should be released.”

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By Jon Greenberg
October 25, 2018

Says Phil Bredesen "lured illegal immigrants to Tennessee."  

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By Jon Greenberg
October 2, 2018

Under Phil Bredesen, in sexual harassment cases, his administration chose "to shred some of the documents so that women’s voices would never be heard."  

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By Jon Greenberg
August 15, 2018

"Hospitals are closing in rural America because they don't have access to high-speed internet."

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By Miriam Valverde
November 17, 2017

"When Phoenix dropped its sanctuary city policy in 2008, its murder rate fell 27 percent the following year."

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By Louis Jacobson
April 16, 2014

A recent Gallup poll found that 72 percent of Americans and 56 percent of Democrats "say the biggest threat to our nation's security is big…

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By Bartholomew Sullivan
October 15, 2012

Signs letter saying Consumer Product Safety Commission is acting "without consultation or input from the company" to stop the sale of Buckyballs.

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By Bartholomew Sullivan
September 24, 2012

Says that in the U.S. House of Representatives "we’ve had bipartisan support for the repeal of Obamacare … for getting rid of cap and trade…

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By Bartholomew Sullivan
June 17, 2012

Says her congressional district has 10,000 medical-device industry jobs and 1,000 will be lost because of health-care law tax.

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