WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 -- Sen. Marsha Blackburn issued the following news release:

Today, U.S. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology, and the Law, led the Committee's first hearing of the year on Arctic Frost. During her questioning of executives from AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon, Senator Blackburn pressed Senior Vice President of Verizon Chris Miller on why the company handed over the phone records of sitting Members of Congress to Jack Smith without asking any questions.

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