Roy Blunt

The following Senators are necessarily absent: the Senator from Wyoming (Mr. Barrasso), the Senator from Tennessee (Mrs. Blackburn), the Senator from Indiana (Mr. Braun), the Senator from North Carolina (Mr. Burr), the Senator from…

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.

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…

...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.

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…

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.

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

I just was able to watch the administration climb the inflation rate cliff, and I want to talk more about this problem of what happens when the administration ignores the warning signs that are going to produce the kind of results that…

I am glad to join you and the other Senator from Georgia, Mr. Ossoff, here today and join both of you in sharing some thoughts about Senator Isakson. Senator Ossoff has already said a lot of things that are easily said. Not that they were…

that whole concept of going where real people live is an important one. When people are facing higher utility bills every month and a bigger bill every time they fill up their gas tank, it doesn't take long for them to figure out that…

I know we have a vote coming up. I have brief remarks, and I ask unanimous consent to complete them before the vote starts. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I want to join with my five colleagues who have been here today and the two people who were with us, Senator Durbin and Senator Fischer. I would say one of the great things about this effort was the unanimous feeling that all seven of us…

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

Yes. I think the point you are making here, too, are that these are--we now have 5 years of evidence in several States, multiple years in other States. So this isn't just assuming what will happen but looking at what we have carefully…

before I get to my topic today, I would like to say that when Senator Sullivan first came to the Senate, I hadn't been here very long, either, and this was my presiding time every week. I loved the Alaskan of the Week. I don't think they…

Just one final thought, we want to be sure that we are encouraging people to get the healthcare they need. You know, if this system works like it should work, you really never know what you are doing in terms of how you have changed…

I want to talk a little bit about the whole idea of loan forgiveness, student debt forgiveness. I have spoken many times on the floor about the importance of higher education--both college education and apprenticeships and other kinds of…

I rise today to recognize the bipartisan accomplishment by the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee and the expanded support we are delivering for veterans living with illnesses as a result of toxic exposure due to their service in our…

I want to say to that, Secretary, there is a reason that we had the veterans set aside in some of these areas.

Thank you, Chair Murray.

I had serious concerns that our nation wouldn't return to our pre-pandemic unemployment levels.

We need to be sure that people understand that. That there are seasonal jobs, where, if you don't have the seasonal workers ready to come in and take the seasonal jobs then the jobs for other people that are full-time, year-round jobs, go…