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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Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government already distorts the marketplace.
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Whether you're managing the finances for a household of one, a business of a thousand, or a government of several hundred million, there's no more important statement of fiscal intent you can make than putting together a responsible budget - one that acknowledges its available means, and makes a reasonable attempt to live within them.
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I will continue to work aggressively in the next few hours and days to build on these commitments and to reach out to each of my colleagues, seeking their support for the vision of smarter, not bigger government that is accountable to the people who send us here.
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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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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.
quite ready
We weren't quite ready to go to the floor,
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We all believe that he (DeLay) will return once this indictment is out of the way, and be the leader again.
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Tom DeLay will stay as leader, ... Meet the Press.
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Tom DeLay wants to lay out that case. I think our friends on the other side know the only effective way he can do that is if the Ethics Committee does its work,
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This week ... we'll, I think under the suspension calendar, have TRIA (Terrorism Risk Insurance Act).
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Even a bill designed to cut gas prices probably needed more time,
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At the end of the day, ... that is probably the hardest work we have to do.
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Putting together a sustainable budget requires that we all work together, that we focus our scarce resources on key priorities, and that we strengthen our capacity to deliver the best product we can for the American people. And that takes money.
drop food stamp
I don't know that we would drop the food stamp cuts.