Save Tech Jobs from Obama’s Regulatory Apocalypse

By: Rep. Marsha Blackburn (Diary)  |  October 18th at 11:00 PM  | 

There’s an inverse relationship between the size and scope of government and the health of our free-market economy. That’s why House Republicans made deregulation a cornerstone of our American Jobs Plan. Every new rule, mandate, and regulatory edict is one more obstacle that small business owners, entrepreneurs, and job creators have to swallow. That holds especially true for our dynamic and competitive tech industry, which | Read More »

The FTC’s Internet Kill Switch

By: Rep. Marsha Blackburn (Diary)  |  August 18th at 04:00 PM  | 

Bureaucrats at the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) are pursuing a heavy-handed regulatory approach to address vague concerns about consumers’ online privacy. They claim that privacy is threatened by a shadowy group of advertisers who are harvesting your data from behind the screen to sell you more stuff. While I don’t discount the agency’s good intentions to protect consumers, FTC activists have supported regulations that would | Read More »