Office of U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn: The Blackburn Report

This week, the Senate took a major step forward in protecting children online by passing the bipartisan Kids Online Safety Act. This legislation provides young people and parents with the tools, safeguards, and transparency they need to protect against online harms. The Senate passage of KOSA could not have been possible without the support of the over 240 organizations that lined up behind this legislation and the hundreds of parents that have flown to Washington on their own dime to lobby Congress and push it forward. The 91 Senators from across the political spectrum that stood up to Big Tech and voted in favor of this legislation have helped save countless innocent lives from being exploited online.                                 Click here to view the press conference.

Weekly Rundown

It has been almost three weeks since the assassination attempt on President Trump. This week, in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, my colleagues and I finally had the opportunity to question U.S. Secret Service Acting Director Ronald Rowe and FBI Deputy Director Paul Abbate about the failures that led to this tragic event. During my questioning, Acting Director Rowe admitted to the existence of a whistleblower, and the Secret Service must address reports that the agency attempted to silence this whistleblower. Additionally, the American people deserve answers as to why the FBI tried to paint Trump's attempted assassin as a right-wing extremist when recently revealed social media posts show Crooks was a left-wing radical