Questions linger for Marsha Blackburn on phone records pay out
Sen. Marsha Blackburn is part of a group of eight senators whose phone records were subpoenaed in an investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP file)
The day after the federal government shutdown ended, U.S. Sens. Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty reacted to the Senate amendment that was the last barrier to passing the funding bill essential to ending the 42-day stoppage.
Blackburn and Hagerty are part of a group of eight Republican senators whose phone records were subpoenaed and reviewed by Special Counsel Jack Smith in his investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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