Roy Blunt

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…

Inflation is an invisible tax that takes its toll on every American.

That is a better answer, than we are not going to spend it. What are you planning?

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

We cannot spend our way out of inflation; instead, we must exercise fiscal responsibility.

normally I don't like to use numbers in speeches because I think numbers get lost in people's minds as they are trying to wrap their heads around numbers, but I do want to use some numbers today because the numbers are just so incredible…

I want to look at what we can do, in a bipartisan way, to prevent another tragedy like this from occurring.

As I reflect on my time in Washington, working on behalf of Missourians and our nation, I am proud to say I've strived to strengthen our education programs that provide the most opportunities to every American.

No family should ever suffer the loss of a child in this kind of horrific act of violence.

We provided $111 million for that purpose, which was an increase of $95 million over the previous year.

We need to continue working together to ensure everyone who has a mental or behavioral health issue can get the treatment they need and when they need it.

I'm alarmed by the potential of widespread loan forgiveness currently under discussion by the administration. It's an illegal, regressive, unfair, and expensive proposal that does nothing to address the real issues with college costs and…

Thank you, Chair. On student loans again, though this would be collecting the student loans, not forgiving the student loans.

As I reflect on my time here working on behalf of Missourians and for our country, I am proud to say I have worked to strengthen our education programs that provide the most opportunities to every American.

Even the New York Times editorial board agrees that loan forgiveness is, 'legally dubious, economically unsound, politically fraught, and educationally problematic.'

Dara Lindenbaum is the President's nominee to be a Member of the Federal Election Commission. We are scheduled to vote on that nomination today. On April 6, the Committee on Rules and Administration held a hearing to consider this nominee…

in late 2016, soon after the Presidential election of that year, there was a significant portion of the political left that began referring to itself as ``the resistance.'' Apparently, these people were bent on fighting whatever the new…

As a former election administrator, both as the Secretary of State, and Mr. Wilcox as a local election authority before that.

Do you think you would have the same ability to do those emergency changes if there was a set of Federal guidelines?

I think there is some discussion where they may graduate in some way to where they continue to exist.

You can't have standard care if you are still discovering things that needs to be looked at as an option.

I would encourage that. I think every single home test for COVID comes out of the RADx experience.

One of my proudest accomplishments is realigning the priorities within the Labor/HHS bill to focus on medical research.

Now is not the time to abandon that goal, now is the time, in fact, to make it even stronger.

I think that decision is going to have some pretty long-term consequences, particularly the CMS decision.