Roy Blunt

Senator Klobuchar and I are here to talk about National Adoption Month. I think we started a little bit late, so by unanimous consent, I ask that we be allowed to extend our closing time by the same number of minutes. The PRESIDING…

this coming week will mark Veterans Day. It is an important time for us to reflect on what veterans do for us and what their families do for us. The sacrifices of both those who serve and those who support those who serve are incredibly…

this week we are moving to confirm four Federal circuit judges. Because of that, it is a good week to talk about the critical role the judiciary plays and actually about the unique power our Constitution gave the courts to do the job they…

Eighty one million dollars. And before the election?

I think we have to be very thoughtful here about who decides what's voter suppression and what's not.

I am here today to join my colleague from Indiana in support of the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to be on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. As we all know, that is the highest court you can serve on, except for the…

If I had a consultant that was trying to impact an election and spent only 46 percent of the money before Election Day, I'd be pretty upset about that, I think.

It's important to distinguish between our ad tools and the organic tools.

I think it definitely needs to be added to. I think the metrics are not what they need to be for us to really use that or for the Department to use it or for the affected ports to use it.

yesterday in the middle of the day, the Presiding Officer and I and the Senator from Texas and others had a chance to meet with the President and talk about tax relief. It seemed to me very clear that the President and those of us who are…

let me first agree with the point that the Senator from South Carolina just made about the importance of passing a tax bill this year. He made the point--and if he didn't, I will make it--that if we don't pass a tax bill this year or at…

I am not aware of any Missouri constituents, for whom I work, who wouldn't like to see a tax code that was simpler, fairer, that did more to create jobs, that was better for individuals, and one that they understood. I don't have anybody…

I think the idea of a cost-share program is a win-win.

when the Senator from West Virginia talked about the 40 percent that can come out of your hard work, the 2 days a week of a regular 5-day workweek--and many families are wishing they could get back to a 5-day workweek because they have…

we are looking at an outline for tax reform that helps working families in ways that those families haven't seen for almost a decade now--a decade of buying power that didn't go up and obligations that did, with more government…

One good reason to have a hearing is it forces you to come up with a bill.

I want to talk about healthcare and what it means to families and what it means to communities. It is the most personal thing that families deal with. Every family knows that at some point they are going to deal with not one but multiple…

Seventy-three percent.

It's good to see you again. We served together for a long time.

The NMTC should be a permanent part of the tax code.

I join my colleague Senator Thune in talking about the Defense Authorization Act, which is the bill that is before the Senate right now. The preamble to the Constitution says that one of the purposes of the founding of the government was…

today I come to you after we have been able to pass out of the Appropriations Committee the bill to fund the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the Department of Education. I want to talk particularly…

August is Rural Broadband Month at the Federal Communications Commission. The Commerce Committee just today put forward nominees for the Commission, and the Commission does matter. But I want to talk today specifically about highlighting…

The U.S.-Colombia alliance is built on a solid foundation of bipartisan support.

we are talking today, obviously, as we move into the final hours of this debate, about the two mandates in the original Affordable Care Act, the individual mandate and the employee mandate--certainly, the individual mandate but both of…