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.
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.
telling
If you were in the leadership, how long would you want someone around telling you what to do?
looks
I think we need to know a little more about what the world we're going to live in looks like.
budget clear country economy future grow national needs power remain request statement
More than anything else, a budget request is a statement of national priorities; a clear enumeration of what our country needs to grow its economy and remain in the future the first-rate power it is today.
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.
next votes
I think we'll have the votes next week,
drop food stamp
I don't know that we would drop the food stamp cuts.
insurance risk suspension week
This week ... we'll, I think under the suspension calendar, have TRIA (Terrorism Risk Insurance Act).
awful both sides work
We have an awful lot of work to do on both sides of the aisle,
majority senate
I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.
hey conservative congress
Hey, well, I've been a pretty conservative member of congress.
quite ready
We weren't quite ready to go to the floor,
continue needed next quite week work
We were not quite where we needed to be to go to the floor. We'll come back next week and continue to work with our members.