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 has come to my attention that Missouri state and local law enforcement agencies may be in need of additional resources due to the unanticipated costs of responding to the unrest in Ferguson.
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The Keystone Pipeline is one common-sense step in the right direction to help put more people back to work, reduce prices at the pump, and position our nation for greater energy security now and in the future.
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People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators. At the same time, mental illness has been the common denominator in one act of mass violence after another.
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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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I'm the whip, ... We've had 50-plus straight victories, so any time we can't go to the floor the day we are supposed to go to the floor, I don't see that as a victory for me.
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I'm not at all shy about reaching out to people on the outside, ... You don't do that only by looking at what resources are available to you in the building.
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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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Even a bill designed to cut gas prices probably needed more time,
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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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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,