Roy Blunt

Thank you, Chairwoman Klobuchar, for yielding me this time and, more importantly, for hosting this hearing on this really important topic.

We appreciate your past support for initiatives that are critical to the rice industry.

We oppose any attempts to modify the farm-safety-net support levels provided by this vital legislation.

Obviously, you'd have to agree that their products are going to have to go through this regimen for them to be allowed to come into the country?

So it's paid for out of regular taxpayer dollars?

So would that mean you haven't decided yet whether it would just apply to a finished product or have a fee during the entire production chain of cosmetics?

The agency you head regulates approximately 20 cents out of every $1 spent in America and Americans expect the FDA-related products will be safe and effective.

Energy policy should have a balanced approach and not focus on one particular source.

This is the big year for MIDAS.

There's a $12 million increase, though.

Of course, as our Nation's debt increases, we have to look carefully at every part of the budget, including this one.

I hope that with your leadership we can produce a bill again this year, and I'm going to do everything I can to be helpful in your efforts to get that done.

I appreciate your service and being here today and your leadership at a challenging time for our defense structure.

Proper quarters for our troops is critically important here.

I'm definitely not an opponent of forward positioning our troops.

I think that is what we are all hearing. Whether you are for this bill or not, my guess is that you are hearing that if you are asking that question. Another of the President's promises was that an average family, if this health care plan…

I thank the doctor for his leadership on this issue during the debate on the health care law itself and right up to now, the second anniversary of it being signed into law. Certainly Missouri voters were the first voters who went to the…

I appreciate your service and being here today and your leadership at a challenging time for our defense structure.

I'm definitely not an opponent of forward positioning our troops.

The Jefferson Barracks Cemetery is just such an integral part of who we have always been as a Nation and how we've treated our veterans.

I would hate to get halfway through a plan and find out that the other half of the plan wasn't going to occur.

Whatever we can do about that should be done.

That would be a great solution to this, I would think, for a significant amount of time, if you've got that kind of space.

I thank the clerk for reporting. Mr. President, this amendment deals with the whole issue of off- system bridges. These are bridges that are not part of the State system, are not part of the Federal system, but normally are run by county…

I wish to speak on the amendment I have offered with my friend, Senator Casey from Pennsylvania, on the highway bill, amendment No. 1540. In my State, and I think in the whole country, the question we hear over and over again is: Where are…