Dec 6, 2023
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…
Roy Blunt
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Roy Blunt is an American politician currently serving as the senior United States senator from Missouri, a position he has held since January 2011. A member of the Republican Party, Blunt previously served as a United States Representative from 1997 to 2011. Throughout his career, he has focused on various issues including public health, research funding, and bipartisan cooperation in Congress.
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December 6, 2023
Please continue this commitment and provide timely investments public health and research programs at the CDC and in the NIH.
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by number of sources- I am pleased to be here today to talk about the 2021 appropriations bill that we filed this week for Labor, for Health and Human Services, and for Education. Obviously, with what we have gone through this year, those three agencies have all experienced dramatic challenges--labor challenges, health challenges, education challenges. And while this bill would not specifically be a COVID relief bill, it is a bill that funds these agencies so they can move forward with their normal work rather than have to, in some piecemeal way, try to deal with their normal work while they are trying to work with us on the extraordinary circumstances of the COVID bill. This is the largest bill--Labor, Health, and Education is the largest nondefense bill on the discretionary side of the agenda. It is about 30 percent of all the money left when the Defense appropriations is taken off the table. There are 11 bills left at that point, but this bill has about 30 percent of all the money. It has a lot of competing priorities, from apprenticeships to biomedical research, to public health and preparedness programs, to childcare and special education. National service and community service are all in this bill. We received 8,352 requests from Senators of things they would like to see in the bill. They are not all in there, but we did all we could to take the money we had and move forward with priorities that make sense.…3 sources2020govinfo.gov
- I think this is a problem that you can work out.2 sources2017congress.gov
- last night in the State of the Union Message, the President looked at the Congress again and said: You need to be for my plan unless you have another plan, and suggested once again that we have never had other plans. I don't know in a handful of minutes that I can do justice to the other plans out there, but I can tell my colleagues there were other alternatives that were filed in legislation and that were debated in 2009. Clearly, today's experiences, one of which has been shared by a family from Wyoming, would be different experiences if we had looked at those other plans. Let me very quickly respond to the President when he asked, What are your ideas, and remind him again of what the ideas were that were proposed by people who thought we had the best health care system in the world but thought it could be improved. Some thought there were people who did not have the access they needed and there were rules that could be changed to make a difference. Here is what some of them are. One idea is to allow small business health plans. Most people get their insurance at work and they like what they have. Eighty-five percent of the people who had insurance last year got insurance at work and well over 90 percent of them thought what they had at work was good and met their needs.…2 sources2014govinfo.gov
- I rise in strong support of this effort to turn back this rule. The rule has been well explained by the Senator from Iowa. Her efforts are about all that Congress can currently do. Frankly, I would hope that we can figure out how to go further so that the Congress has to approve every rule that is issued by every agency of government that has significant economic impact. It is, frankly, hard to imagine a rule that has a more wide-ranging impact or more economic impact than this one does. As has been well pointed out, the authority given to the EPA under the Clean Water Act was very consistent with Federal discussions and debates for 170 years. I think 1846 was the first time the term ``navigable waters'' was used in Federal law, in a bill that James Knox Polk--President Polk actually vetoed the bill, but the term was understood, and it quickly came back into Federal law, and it meant exactly what it said: navigable waters of the United States. Why would that be a Federal responsibility? Because ``navigable'' means you can move something on it. ``Moving something on it'' means commerce, and one of the principal reasons for the Constitution was to regulate interstate commerce. So this is a long-established principle. Yes, there is some Federal responsibility for those avenues of commerce in the country--areas, rivers, waterways you can navigate.…2 sources2015govinfo.gov
- I want to join my colleagues in my appreciation for the expansion of NATO--as others have said, the greatest alliance, maybe in history, certainly in the last 200 years, an alliance that has served great benefits and now is growing. NATO has been there since 1949. The two countries that we are going to be voting to admit today have resisted since 1949 being part of NATO, but with the recent actions, they decided you now have to choose a side. Now, they are not countries that have been on the sideline just hoping nothing would happen. They are countries that had significant defense capacities, significant military capabilities. They will be net security contributors to NATO. They bring to the alliance these advanced capabilities. They bring a neighborhood understanding of Russia, greater than maybe almost any other country, particularly Finland, which has been mentioned has an 800-plus mile border that will double the NATO border with Russia. They have been defending that border since World War II, and the Russians understand their capacity to defend it. They, frankly, bring good real estate and good location. I wish I had a map here on the floor with me, but I don't. The Baltic really becomes a NATO sea.…2 sources2022govinfo.gov
- in response to my friend, the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), I would like to say that on the list of things she mentioned, the House of Representatives passed virtually all of that legislation, sent it to the Senate. We would like to see it come back and would like to take final action on it and hope that the conference reports on defense and military construction and other conference reports would produce some of that work next week. In terms of Iraq, there is hard work on a bipartisan bicameral basis to get a resolution that I personally would be pleased to see come to the House next week, but we are working hard to have a resolution that has broad agreement to deal with this very important question.2 sources2002govinfo.gov
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Dec 6, 2023
Senator Blunt's longstanding promise of expanding the reach and resources of the Nation's Registry has saved thousands of lives.
Dec 6, 2023
Senator Blunt's longstanding promise of expanding the reach and resources of the Nation's Registry has saved thousands of lives.
Dec 6, 2023
Please continue this commitment and provide timely investments public health and research programs at the CDC and in the NIH.
Dec 6, 2023
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…
Dec 5, 2023
Senator Blunt's longstanding promise of expanding the reach and resources of the Nation's Registry has saved thousands of lives.
Oct 15, 2023
Yesterday, October the 16th, the Corps announced that the Missouri River flood was officially over.
May 27, 2023
They decided to change the rules. I suspect that changes the Senate in fundamental ways forever.
May 6, 2023
The subcommittee is in recess until 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 7. Thank you all.
Dec 20, 2022
I won't be able to work with you and others on this in the next Congress. I am coming to the end of my 26 years here. In a couple more weeks, I will move on to whatever is the next chapter, and I am excited about that. But I am frustrated…
Dec 18, 2022
I have been Chairman twice--let's see, I was Chairman, then Senator Shelby was Chairman, then I was Chairman again.
Dec 18, 2022
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…
Dec 18, 2022
It has been great to work with you in this divided Congress as you become Chairwoman.
Dec 18, 2022
This is a unique Committee, and the opportunity to be so involved all the time...
Dec 18, 2022
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.
Dec 14, 2022
in calculating, it may be possible that I have served on the Intel Committee longer than anybody besides Richard Burr currently on the committee, with some time in the House--but not all of the time in the House--and in the Senate. It is…
Dec 14, 2022
a moment ago when I saw Senator Shelby and Senator Leahy shake hands warmly in the middle of the aisle, I thought of it as a century of service in the Congress. It is a century of learning lessons that fortunately they have both been able…
Dec 8, 2022
you know, it is often said here that everything has been said, but not everybody has said it yet. (Laughter.) This is actually a case where everything won't be said today and can't be said. The remarkable legislative accomplishments that…
Dec 6, 2022
when I gave my first speech on the Senate floor 12 years ago or when I cast my first vote in the House 26 years ago, I had really no way to anticipate the challenges and opportunities that were ahead of us. I come to the floor today…
Dec 6, 2022
I ask unanimous consent that Jeremy Pinson, a military fellow from my office, be granted floor privileges for the remainder of the Congress. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________
Dec 6, 2022
I want to thank my good friend Senator McConnell for his comments this morning, and I have reserved some time this afternoon for what would be my official farewell address in the Senate. But as it relates to our leader, Mr. McConnell, he…
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