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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The product we had for today wasn't quite where it needs to be yet,
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What we do here is more important than who we are. We have an agenda to move forward here.
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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 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.
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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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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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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.
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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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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,
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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 not used to pushing back when the other side suggests that the savings are deep cuts in social programs.