There are 130 article(s) tagged Marsha Blackburn:

• April 2024

  • Kevin Ritz grilled during US Senate Judiciary Committee hearing

    Senators in Washington, D.C., recently grilled Memphis’ top federal prosecutor about his past as he awaits confirmation to a federal judgeship.

    By Aarron Fleming April 25, 2024

  • D.C. Scorecard: U.S. aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan votes reveal bipartisanship limits

    The D.C. Scorecard finds some bipartisanship among the state’s House delegation to Washington. The city’s two Congressmen — one Democratic and the other Republican — voted for aid packages to Taiwan, Ukraine and Israel — although for different reasons. The state’s two Republican Senators voted against the aid.

    By Bill Dries April 24, 2024

• March 2024

  • Political Roundup: Paul Young’s blitz, Blackburn at the border and more

    The political roundup recaps some of the major action just ahead of the April 4 deadline for candidates to get on the August ballot.

    By Bill Dries March 30, 2024

• October 2023

  • Cohen says combined Israel-Ukraine aid package in Senate could overcome House opposition

    Cohen said Tuesday, Oct. 31, time is of the essence in approving the aid package. He also again spoke in support of humanitarian aid for Gaza in Israel’s war with Hamas.

    By Bill Dries October 31, 2023

  • D.C. Scorecard: War in Gaza

    The Daily Memphian’s D.C. Scorecard finds bipartisan support for Israel among the city’s representatives in the Capitol but disagreement on what if any role the U.S. unfreezing Iranian assets may have played Israel’s war with Hamas in Gaza.

    By Bill Dries October 09, 2023

  • D.C. Scorecard: Cohen, Kustoff vote for spending stop-gap while Hagerty, Blackburn vote no

    U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen was among the Democratic majority voting for the bill, and Rep. David Kustoff was among the 126 Republicans who voted for it.

    By Bill Dries October 02, 2023

• September 2023

  • Gloria Johnson opens Senate bid, draws fire from incumbent Marsha Blackburn

    Memphis was the third of three stops Tuesday, Sept. 5, kicking off what Johnson says will be an “uphill battle” to win the August primary and take down Marsha Blackburn in next year’s November general election.

    By Bill Dries September 05, 2023

• June 2023

  • D.C. Scorecard: The Schiff censure, the Durham probe, TVA

    This D.C. Scorecard includes the censure of the Democrat who made the House’s case for former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment and a grilling of the special counsel who investigated the FBI’s handling of allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election.

    By Bill Dries June 25, 2023

  • D.C. Scorecard: Trump’s indictment, Cohen on Amtrak; Kustoff at Le Bonheur

    The D.C. Scorecard shows partisan lines still intact among the city’s four representatives on the espionage indictment against Donald Trump. Also, Cohen talks Memphis to Nashville Amtrak service, while Kustoff talks workforce at Le Bonheur.

    By Bill Dries June 12, 2023

• April 2023

  • Blackburn talks federal spending cuts in visit to Memphis

    During a Monday, April 24, visit to Memphis, Sen. Marsha Blackburn talked about her endorsement of former President Donald Trump and took to Twitter to offer supporters a “Marsha, Marsha, Marsha pizza cutter.”

    By Bill Dries April 25, 2023

  • Steve Cohen sees the possible return of Democratic majority in US House

    “I’ve got more influence than I’ve ever had,” said Steve Cohen, who says he will seek reelection in 2024.

    By Bill Dries April 14, 2023

• March 2023

  • D.C. Scorecard: Cohen speaks at Snowden, Blackburn and Hagerty speak at CPAC

    U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen talks about a new strategy for bringing home federal funding with the new Republican majority and the state’s two Republican Senators show up for CPAC’s return to Washington. The Daily Memphian’s D.C. Scorecard tracks the city’s representatives in Washington D.C.

    By Bill Dries March 03, 2023

• January 2023

  • Hernando DeSoto Bridge is a symbol of protest amid calls for reform

    As public officials expressed outrage about Tyre Nichols’ death online, the protests marking the release of the videos returned to the symbol of local protest in the age of Black Lives Matter — the bridges across the Mississippi River.

    By Bill Dries January 30, 2023

• December 2022

  • D.C. scorecard: Same-sex marriage, rail strike

    Here’s how the city’s representatives in Washington D.C. voted on the two major issues and what they had to say about it on social media.

    By Bill Dries December 02, 2022

• September 2022

  • Blackburn and Hagerty cite Memphis crime in new call for federal funding

    The proposed “Restoring Law and Order Act” would include federal grant programs for more police and detectives focused on violent crime as well as a General Accounting Office examination of delays in processing rape kits.

    By Bill Dries September 15, 2022

  • Senate confirms Andre Mathis to federal appeals court

    The Butler Snow law partner becomes the first Black man from Tennessee to serve on the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

    By Bill Dries September 08, 2022

• July 2022

  • Hagerty doubles down on abortion ruling, calls insurrection hearings ‘show trial’

    Republican U.S. Senator Bill Hagerty spoke Tuesday, June 28, at the Memphis Rotary Club during a visit to the city that included a defense of former President Donald Trump and a prediction that 2022 midterm elections will produce a “sea change” in Washington. He also visited with the Republican nominee for Shelby County mayor.

    By Bill Dries July 05, 2022

• June 2022

  • State House Speaker says AR-15 ban not the answer to mass shootings

    Cameron Sexton says he sees no reason to ban AR-15 weapons in the wake of the Uvalde, Texas, mass shooting. Meanwhile in Washington Thursday, Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen was calling for such a ban.

    By Bill Dries June 02, 2022

  • Letter to the Editor: When will Congress and our local representatives get to work?

    “What irony there is in honoring our dead from wars while disregarding our dead children of today.”

    By Letters to the Editor June 02, 2022

• May 2022

  • Local, state and national Republican strategist John Ryder dies

    The former Shelby County Republican Party chairman and member of the Republican National Committee, as well as its general counsel, died over the weekend at the age of 72. 

    By Bill Dries May 17, 2022

  • Reaction divided to leaked Supreme Court opinion on abortion

    City and state representatives in Washington react to the leaked draft of a high court opinion that indicates it is about to overturn the landmark ruling that legalized abortion in the U.S.

    By Bill Dries, Jane Roberts May 03, 2022

• April 2022

  • Trump’s last chief of staff touts ex-president’s record to local Republicans

    Former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows gave the keynote speech at the local Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Gala, with many GOP figures vowing to regain the majority in the U.S. House in midterm elections this year. 

    By Bill Dries April 29, 2022

  • Political Roundup: DA’s race goes critical, August ballot shakeout

    The Democratic primary race for district attorney is about to turn from general calls for change to who can upset incumbent Republican Amy Weirich.

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    Ballot basics: Early voting begins

    By Bill Dries April 12, 2022

  • Blackburn and Hagerty vote against Jackson confirmation to U.S. Supreme Court

    U.S. Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty indicated they would vote against the nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson ahead of the 53-47 vote Thursday, April 7.

    By Bill Dries April 07, 2022

• February 2022

  • Rep. Steve Cohen near Ukraine as Sen. Marsha Blackburn meets with Trump

    U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen of Memphis had a front-row seat Thursday, Feb. 24, for Russia’s political defense of its invasion of Ukraine.

    By Bill Dries February 25, 2022