Roy Blunt

MCPP is thankful for the strong bipartisan support that the subcommittee leaders, Chairwoman Patty Murray and Ranking Member Roy Blunt, have shown in providing the NIH with its seventh consecutive funding increase during this time of…

Please continue this commitment and provide timely investments public health and research programs at the CDC and in the NIH.

Senator Blunt's longstanding promise of expanding the reach and resources of the Nation's Registry has saved thousands of lives.

Senator Blunt's longstanding promise of expanding the reach and resources of the Nation's Registry has saved thousands of lives.

Yesterday, October the 16th, the Corps announced that the Missouri River flood was officially over.

They decided to change the rules. I suspect that changes the Senate in fundamental ways forever.

The subcommittee is in recess until 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 7. Thank you all.

I think that many of the things that this Committee has done, that you and Senator Klobuchar have done personally, and that Congress has done for the United States Capitol Police has sent a pretty strong message that people do care about…

I have been Chairman twice--let's see, I was Chairman, then Senator Shelby was Chairman, then I was Chairman again.

This is a unique Committee, and the opportunity to be so involved all the time...

I think you have completed about 75 percent of those.

I know I am leaving the Committee in good hands as Senator Fischer moves into the position of Ranking Member at the beginning of the next Congress.

Well, see you tomorrow.

It has been great to work with you in this divided Congress as you become Chairwoman.

You are authorized to have over 2,000, or close to 2,100.

...Indian Tribes are political, sovereign entities to which the Federal Government owes a trust responsibility.

We especially thank Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services (HHS), Education Chairman Roy Blunt and Ranking Member Patty Murray for their unwavering support for the NIH.

These funding levels will put the U.S. back on the path to eliminating TB.

... it is the policy of this Nation, in fulfillment of its special trust responsibilities and legal obligations to Indians--to ensure the highest possible health status for Indians and urban Indians and to provide for all resources…

Through the strong, bipartisan action of this Subcommittee's leaders, Chairman Roy Blunt and Ranking Member Patty Murray, Congress is helping the agency regain lost ground after years of effectively flat budgets.

We request this subcommittee preserve CDC's global measles control activities for fiscal year 2020 at $50 million.

We need to move forward with the clarifications that are so obviously needed.

I am glad to get a chance to talk while Senator Manchin and Senator Collins, both good friends of mine who are here, and talk about some of the reasons for the hearing today.

I look forward to seeing this bill on the floor sometime between now and the end of this year.