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.
Topic: Marsha Blackburn
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December 2022
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September 2022
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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.
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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.
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July 2022
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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.
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June 2022
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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.
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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.”
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May 2022
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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.
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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.
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April 2022
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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.
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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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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.
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February 2022
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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.
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Mathis federal appeals court nomination clears Senate Judiciary by narrow margin
Andre Mathis’ nomination as a federal appeals court judge advances to the full Senate as Republican U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee again opposed Mathis as “unqualified” and talked Thursday in Washington of “street talk in Memphis.”
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Letter to the Editor: Sanford too harsh on Blackburn
“In Otis Sanford’s opinion column, ‘Blackburn proves she can be queen of mean,’ he gets a little bit too carried away in criticizing Sen. Marsha Blackburn.”
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January 2022
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Legislators draw partisan lines over voting rights and filibuster
The two key votes of the week in Washington D.C. were in the Senate. But the discussion among the city’s representatives in Washington included both U.S. House members who represent Memphis.
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Sanford: Blackburn proves she can be queen of mean
Sen. Marsha Blackburn employed an unmistakably racist dog whistle in casting Andre Mathis as a criminal who cannot be trusted to sit as an appellate court judge.
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Blackburn grills federal appeals court nominee Mathis over ‘rap sheet’ for traffic tickets
The Judiciary Committee scrap over Mathis’ nomination was part of a larger issue about blue slips used to express support or opposition by Senators on federal appeals court nominees when the home-state Senators are not of the president’s party.
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Henri Brooks seeks return to county government in 2022 primaries
The former county commissioner has pulled petitions to seek a return to the County Commission or to run for Juvenile Court Clerk.
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December 2021
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Sanford: Blackburn is on Trump’s VP list, but is the conservative stalwart extreme enough?
News outlets continue to lend credence to Donald Trump’s flirtation with seeking a second term in 2024.
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How they voted on funding to keep the federal government operating
The federal government is funded into February with the votes among the city’s representatives in Washington falling along party lines with one exception — a senator who did not vote on the continuing resolution.
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City’s representatives in D.C. closely watching Supreme Court arguments on abortion
Reaction from the city’s two Congressmen and the state’s two U.S. Senators fell along party lines on the long-running political issue of access to abortions.
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November 2021
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How city representatives voted on ‘Build Back Better’
Early reaction among the city’s representatives in Washington the day of the House vote approving the $2 trillion Biden adminstration domestic agenda focused on a provision that would expand TennCare coverage that the Tennessee Legislature has refused to expand.
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What Tennessee will get from the $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill
Tennessee stands to get billions of dollars to repair roads and bridges, build public transit and broadband and provide clean water after the U.S. House passed a $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill Nov. 5.
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October 2021
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Hagerty and Blackburn again reject moving voting rights bill in Senate
Tennessee’s two Republican senators voted against the procedural motion this week that would have brought a Democratic voting rights bill to the Senate floor for a vote.
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September 2021
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Elected officials react to Collierville shooting
Some of the reaction called for an immediate look at the causes of such violence as part of a national debate while others called for supporting those grieving from the loss of life, at least for now.
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