Roy Blunt

The FAST Act, the 5-year highway bill. After 37 extensions of the highway bill, it is really well-received throughout the country.

If you could look at those seven questions and respond to them, it would be very helpful.

Surely, somebody--go ahead and talk about what we are going to do to get this implemented between now and September 2017.

I serve with Senator Klobuchar as Co-Chairman of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption.

I am concerned that it took 10 years to come up with the six----

I am concerned... that this gainful employment concept... is too focused on the amount of money a person makes versus their loan versus what they have decided to do.

I think the TIGER grant made that whole package come together.

My overreaching concern with this request is that the increase of $1.3 billion for the Department of Education dwarfs the total increase for all of non-defense discretionary spending--which is $40 million.

Well, as you know, kids who are victims of violence, witnesses of violent acts, surrounded by violence, and have lots of things going on that make it hard to focus on the things that they otherwise would hopefully be focused in school.

Well, people that are the first person in their family to go to college often have a different concept of what is available for them to do, what they decide to major in.

You know, in St. Louis and Kansas City, both, we have a significant number of charter schools.

I was pleased to see an increase for charter schools, which have been a critical component to ensuring children have access to high quality elementary and secondary schools regardless of where they live.

The FAST Act, the 5-year highway bill. After 37 extensions of the highway bill, it is really well-received throughout the country.

I am disappointed, given the large increase in the Department's request that the budget once again cuts funding for the Impact Aid Payments for Federal Property program.

I just want to be sure that we are not suggesting here that somehow anybody is stepping back from the traditional commitment to programs now funded by Title IV.

today the Senate is taking a second step to deal with a public health crisis that is destroying lives and damaging communities across the Nation, the epidemic of opioid and heroin abuse. Step 1 late last year was to reduce spending in…

Borrowers, taxpayers, and future students who benefit from those revolving funds all need to be considered here.

I think community colleges are the best buy in higher education.

I am not a big advocate for us buying water as one of the alternatives at lunch.

But this is an area that, obviously, the Congress is very attentive to. We made a big increase in the amount of money available to these programs last year.

I think social access, economic opportunity, all those things matter.

The future challenges and opportunities for agriculture are great, if not greater than they have ever been.

More people die of drug overdoses now in rural America than urban America.

Is it still the top medical military construction priority?

I think clerical errors are not what we should be headed for here.