Honorable Marsha Blackburn
United States Representative, Tennessee, Republican
Representative Blackburn, of the Seventh District of Tennessee, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002. She served in the Tennessee Senate from 1998 to 2002. She sits on the Energy and Commerce Committee, where she is Vice Chair of the Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade and the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. The following is from the March 17, 2011, House floor debate on H.R. 1076, to prohibit Federal funding of National Public Radio (NPR) and the use of Federal funds to acquire radio content. I rise in strong support of H.R. 1076, a bill…
