Blackburn Reacts To 10.2% Unemployment
November 6th, 2009Today Congressman Marsha Blackburn (TN-7) reacted to the latest unemployment figures:
“Despite billions in deficit spending and an unprecedented expansion of the Federal Government, unemployment has reached a staggering ten percent nationwide. It is far higher in many places in the 7th District. Despite what the President and Speaker Pelosi would have you believe, there is no such thing as a “jobless recovery”. This is the wrong time to enact a multi-trillion dollar health care bill that will raise taxes on small businesses and leave millions more unemployed.”
Corker Comments on the Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill
November 6th, 2009WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Bob Corker, R-Tenn., voted against the Commerce, Justice, Science appropriations bill, H.R. 2847, saying he could not support a 12.6 percent increase over last year’s spending level.
Alexander Says Democrats’ Health Care Plan Scares Seniors, Cuts Medicare
November 5th, 2009Offers 200 Pages of Republican Proposals That Would Reduce Debt, Premiums and Protect Medicare
November 5th, 2009 – WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) today made the following remarks on the floor of the U.S. Senate:
Alexander Opposes Democrats’ Cap-and-Trade Bill, Says Americans Want to Know Cost of New National Energy Tax
November 5th, 2009November 5th, 2009 – WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), a member of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, today made the following statement after Democrats passed their cap-and-trade legislation out of committee without knowing what it will cost taxpayers:
