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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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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I don't believe anybody is opposed to refining this product in an appropriate way, ... We're having a significant discussion with our members.
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They're probably not doing that because they have a really bad cold.
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Our team has the very big shoes of Tom DeLay to fill temporarily, ... Under the strong leadership of the Speaker, we will work hard to do what Tom would do -- complete our work, and move forward with a positive agenda for the American people -- until he returns.
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I do think over the last seven years I've counted more votes than anybody else on the House floor, and I'm confident that we are now where we need to be to get this done.
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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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At the end of the day, ... that is probably the hardest work we have to do.
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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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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 think it is important to put these tax policies out there and do our best to make the truthful case that anything short of this would be a tax increase,
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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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This week ... we'll, I think under the suspension calendar, have TRIA (Terrorism Risk Insurance Act).
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We have an awful lot of work to do on both sides of the aisle,
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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,