Roy Blunt actually said...

"If the kinds of increases in rates occur and utility bills occur that have been anticipated with Clean Power, what can be done to minimize the impact of those dramatic power increases on rural electri..."

"This is an important job. It is an important office."

"The reliance on mandatory spending to supplant discretionary funding contributes to exactly what is wrong with our Federal budget."

"I certainly would not think that would be the way we would want to follow our effort last year to increase research by $2 billion."