VIDEO: Blackburn Calls Out Democrats for Siding with Criminal Illegal Aliens, Recaps Arctic Frost Hearing

WASHINGTON, D.C. - On the Senate floor, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) delivered remarks slamming the Democrats for siding with criminal illegal aliens over American citizens by opposing basic election integrity measures and voting against funding for FEMA as Tennesseans recover from the winter storms. She also recapped the hearing she chaired earlier this week, where she questioned executives from AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon on their involvement in Arctic Frost.

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EXCERPTS OF REMARKS

On Democrats' Opposition to Deporting Criminal Illegal Aliens and Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Vote in U.S. Elections:

"We've had quite a feisty afternoon here on the floor, and I am so pleased that my colleagues have called out some of the actions that we have witnessed from the other side."

"It is beyond me that they would want illegal aliens to vote in U.S. elections, beyond me."

"Maybe they don't want to preserve one person, one vote. Maybe that's not important to them."

"It is important to 80% of the American people."

"And they're not wanting to fund DHS… What they are doing, they are defunding FEMA. They are defunding TSA, so if your flights don't go next week, blame the Democrats."

On Arctic Frost Hearing with Phone Carrier Executives:

"This week, we had a hearing in Judiciary Committee that looked at another inappropriate use of the federal government, inappropriate policies. And this week, I chaired the first in a series of hearings at judiciary committee that will address Arctic Frost."

"We called before us the general counsels, legal representatives, from Verizon AT&T, and T-Mobile, the three wireless carriers that received unlawful subpoena requests from Jack Smith to access our phone records."

"[Jack Smith] didn't have a statute that allowed him to be the Special Counsel, but he [went] to great lengths to make certain that we could never find out about this deep invasion of our privacy and the violation of our constitutional rights."

"He went to an Obama appointee, Judge James Boasberg, who signed non-disclosure orders… to ensure that the subpoenas were going to be kept secret from us."

"The Biden DOJ, they were out for Donald Trump. They wanted to block him from ever being president. They wanted to go get him six ways from Sunday. They were after him. So, they decided, well, there's a risk, but if you put a gag order on it, they're never going to find out. So, let's go ahead. Let's roll the dice, and let's go for it. Let's abuse their right to privacy. Let's infringe on the Speech and Debate Clause. Let's get in and tear up the Stored Communications Act."

"Thank God we have whistleblowers."

"These whistleblowers over at DOJ came to Chairman Grassley… and we learned that Verizon and T-Mobile complied with the subpoena request, no questions asked, no concern for constitutional rights. They just rolled over without a fight."

"During yesterday's hearing, we got to ask them: Why did you comply with these secret unlawful subpoenas? Did getting a gag order on it not raise a red flag to you? Why did you do this"

"The answer was not satisfactory."

"Verizon utterly failed in its responsibilities. So did T-Mobile… Yet, not a single person at Verizon or any of the carriers lost their jobs because of this."

"There has to be accountability. If they can trample on the constitutional rights of sitting members of Congress and the President of the United States, they can do it to every U.S. citizen."

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