State Chapter: Tennessee

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Our mission is to turn ideas and policies into action. Those ideas can never succeed unless ordinary citizens are willing to stand up and fight for them...

Our goal is to help ordinary citizens play a greater role in the government decisionmaking process, letting no cause involving their own rights and freedoms be lost by default.

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State Press Releases

FreedomWorks Cheers Passage of Video Competition Bill in Tennessee

Two year grassroots campaign helps deliver passage of the Competitive Cable and Video Services Act.

May 05, 2008

Nashville, Tennessee - Late last week the Tennessee Legislature overwhelmingly passed the Competitive Cable and Video Services Act; legislation that opens the door for increased competition and innovation, including the deployment of new technologies such as video programming over phone lines. The bill now moves to the desk of Governor Phil Bredesen who is expected to sign it into law.

State News

Bipartisan Approach Can Help End Waste

Apr 26, 2008

This past week in Shelby County, I signed my name to the FreedomWorks earmark pledge.

In so doing, I promised to step away from the earmark process for the current appropriations cycle. This follows a decision I made in March not to submit earmark request to the Appropriations Committee.