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
anwr balance handful issue members might prepared time vote
Members when it comes time to vote often have to balance where they are on one issue with where they might be on a handful of other issues, ... I'm not prepared to give up on ANWR yet.
convinced eventually fine floor hard intended members test
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.
dealing mandatory members
We haven't done this in 10 years, so the members aren't used to dealing with these mandatory programs,
achieve exactly gets highest membership number open parts people pleased savings willing
We're open to doing what we need to do to achieve the highest number of savings that 218 people are willing to make happen, ... Now we'll see if the membership is pleased with all the parts of that, this will undoubtedly not be exactly the same when it gets to the floor.
arrows members support taking wavering
I don't see any wavering of the support for the leader. I think a lot of members think he's taking arrows for all of us.
available looking people reaching resources shy
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.
floor straight supposed time victory
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,
believe delay indictment leader return
We all believe that he (DeLay) will return once this indictment is out of the way, and be the leader again.
delay meet stay tom
Tom DeLay will stay as leader, ... Meet the Press.
committee delay effective ethics side tom wants
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,
insurance risk suspension week
This week ... we'll, I think under the suspension calendar, have TRIA (Terrorism Risk Insurance Act).
bill cut designed gas needed prices
Even a bill designed to cut gas prices probably needed more time,
hardest work
At the end of the day, ... that is probably the hardest work we have to do.