Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
Roy Dean Bluntis the junior United States Senator from Missouri, in office since 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth10 January 1950
CityNiangua, MO
CountryUnited States of America
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It's fair to say the White House has made the case -- both the president and the vice president -- that the McCain amendment is harmful,
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Despair has been your lot for 60 years, ... but today we can say farewell with courage and with the knowledge that the fate of our fellow citizens has finally been discovered.
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It's no more difficult to file an ethics charge than it ever was.
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It's not easy to fill the gap left by Tom DeLay but all of our team is going to come together like we've never come together before,
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It's not easy to fill the gap, ... I think, largely because of his effectiveness as a leader, he became a target.
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They're probably not doing that because they have a really bad cold.
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They're not used to pushing back when the other side suggests that the savings are deep cuts in social programs.
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Eventually we're going to take something to the floor that is a test of the members more than we intended to test the members, because that's just going to happen. I'm convinced that we're going to be fine when we take this to the floor on Thursday. But hard things to do are hard.
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If you were in the leadership, how long would you want someone around telling you what to do?
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This report's only of value if we use it in a positive, forward-looking way, and not try to get into meaningless blaming, who could have done what when; now that it doesn't matter, ... American Morning.
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We were not quite where we needed to be to go to the floor. We'll come back next week and continue to work with our members.
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We haven't done this in 10 years, so the members aren't used to dealing with these mandatory programs,
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We'll move toward voting next week, and when we do it will pass,
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The product we had for today wasn't quite where it needs to be yet,