Quotes from Marsha Blackburn

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

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.

Less regulation plus less taxation plus less litigation always equals more innovation and job creation.

What I want to do is make certain that no one's taxes go up. Let's look at cleaning up the tax code.

Republicans rejected calls for amnesty and we've fought efforts to provide illegal aliens with taxpayer funded benefits. The American people are far closer to our Republican approach to border security than they are to Nancy Pelosi's approach.

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.

Serving as President of the United States is a privilege that is afforded to few in our country.

When you look at the social cost of carbon - and there is a lot of ambiguity around that - what you also need to be doing is looking at the benefits of carbon and what that has on increased agriculture production.

A conservative vision to tech issues assumes the imperfection of mankind and a preference for markets - not politics - to drive outcomes.

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

Now, 'the fiscal cliff' is a name that the media came up with, but some of us have been saying for years, 'You have got to stop the out of control federal spending, or you will end up at this point.' We're there.

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.

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

This is now a global war on terror and, indeed, it is important, it is imperative that we win in the battles in Afghanistan and that we win in the battles in Iraq. And as the gentleman from Georgia has mentioned, this is not something that is going to be quick and easy.

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.

We must be certain that we all realize that our enemy is not an enemy that is located in one single place. There are terrorist cells all around the globe.

My goodness, the Democrats have just become the party of punishment, and they are carrying that to the extreme when it comes to health care.

We have to defeat ISIS. We have to make certain that we destroy them and that we push them back.

The generosity of the American people is legendary. So is their spirit.

I've talked with a lot of teachers, classroom teachers after the Sandy Hook situation, and they say, look, we need to be looking at mental health.

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

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

Many women are heads of households. Many are the primary wage earners for their families.

Ironically, one of the clearer threats to consumer privacy is the government's largely unchecked ability to collect your sensitive information without due process.