Congressman Marsha Blackburn - U.S. Congressman for the 7th District of Tennessee

I am never surprised at the wisdom of the people of Tennessee. Recently, the Tennessean and other media outlets conducted a poll to gauge the support of Tennesseans for the health care law. The results speak volumes for the failure of the Obama Administration to listen to the people. Fifty-seven percent of registered voters surveyed said they oppose the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. ... (read more)

Americans know that spending is out of control. With a deficit of over thirteen trillion dollars, the American people have told Washington “stop spending money we don’t have.” It is time for Congress to cut spending across the board, with the exception of three areas, the Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs and Homeland Sec... (read more)

Last Friday, Vice President Biden delivered his speech to the Tennessee Democratic Party’s annual Jackson Day dinner. For some strange reason the Vice-President chose to rally party activists by defending what most Americans agree are enormous failings of their first 18 months in office – the Obama Administration’s economic and foreign policies. He would have been better off keeping the focus of h... (read more)

Vice-President Joe Biden is in Nashville today to keynote the Tennessee Democratic Party’s annual Jackson Day event. Tennesseans are known for their good manners and graciousness and so we welcome the Vice-President to our state. I can’t help but think, however, that it would have been better if he had come to visit immediately after the catastrophic floods that devastated Nashville and the surrou... (read more)

A few weeks ago Vice President Biden announced a six week long campaign to promote the Obama Administration’s claim that “the Recovery Act is working.” The Vice President said “we never thought that $787 billion was going to fill the hole dug by the recession that was created by the policies of the last administration.” (read more)