Tag: Congressman Scott DesJarlais

Eric Trump to be Featured Speaker at The 911 Event Nashville

Laura Baigert
Eric Trump

The 911 Event Nashville announced Saturday that Eric Trump will join the already star-studded commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the deadliest terror attack in the history of the United States which took the lives of 2,977 men, women and children in New York City, Arlington, Virginia and near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.

The announcement about Trump joining the event lineup was made to attendees of the annual fundraiser for the Tennessee Firearms Association held Saturday at the Wilson County Fairgrounds in Lebanon and on the 911 event’s website.

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Scott DesJarlais Joins the Tennessee Report and Says the Democrats Would Rather See America Fail than Trump Succeed

Julie Carr

On Friday’s Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 am to 8:00 am – host Leahy welcomed Congressman Scott DesJarlais to the third hour of the show to speak on comprehensive immigration solutions and the recent impeachment inquiry.

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Marsha Blackburn, Diane Black, Scott DesJarlais, and Jimmy Duncan Vote Against Deficit Increasing $1.3 Trillion Omnibus Budget Deal

Tennessee Star Staff

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN-07), Rep. Diane Black (R-TN-06), Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-04), and Rep. John J. “Jimmy” Duncan (R-TN-02) were the only four Republican members of the Tennessee delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives to vote against the deficit increasing $1.3 Trillion Omnibus Budget Bill to fund the federal government for the remainder of FY 2018 that passed the House on a 256-167 vote Thursday afternoon. A total of 90 Republicans and 77 Democrats voted against the bill. The bill now goes to the Senate for a vote on Friday. If it passes in the Senate, President Trump will have until midnight on Friday to either sign or veto the bill before non-essential offices of the federal government shut down. Three Republican members of the Tennessee delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives voted in favor of the huge spending bill: Republicans Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN-01), Rep. Chuck Fleischmann (R-TN-03), and Rep. David Kustoff (R-TN-08). Kustoff’s yes vote could spell trouble for him in August, as he faces a tough primary challenge from Dr. George Flinn, who is a staunch conservative on fiscal matters and is running a well funded and aggressive campaign. The two Democrats in the U.S.…

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Exclusive: Rep. Scott DesJarlais Calls for Full Repeal of Obamacare: ‘The Moment To Act Is Right Now’

Laura Baigert
Tennessee Star

In a press release issued Thursday, Congressman Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-04) said “We should keep our promises, not retreat when the moment to act is right now” and fully repeal Obamacare. DesJarlais supports the parliamentary procedure being used by the House Freedom Caucus to force a vote on the House floor to repeal Obamacare. The House Freedom Caucus announced a “discharge petition,” as DesJarlais explained in an exclusive interview with The Tennessee Star, “generally a tool of the minority” that allows legislation to bypass the committee system for a vote by the full House. DesJarlais continued, Almost every Republican in the House has voted over 50 times to repeal Obamacare, including the legislation from 2015 that both the House and Senate passed and Obama vetoed it. Trump has said if we send that same legislation to him, he will sign it. Now all of a sudden we have a group of Republicans that don’t mean what they said and don’t want to vote for a clean repeal. Demonstrating his personal commitment and work toward gaining House Republican support for the full repeal, DesJarlais said, “I was asking dozens of members yesterday whether they would vote for a clean repeal, and almost…

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