Roy Blunt

The odds that you'll create a greater problem by trying to solve a problem that's passed you by are greater than that.

I hope that these nominees will make it a point of priority to address FCC process issues to ensure the type of fair treatment that we should expect from a Federal agency that has so much authority over such a vast swath of our economy.

Thank you, Chairman. Thank you, Chairman, I have a statement for the record that I will submit for the record.

I am pleased to join Senator Kohl in supporting the conference report, and I particularly want to talk about the agricultural programs in the report. This is my first year as the ranking member of the agriculture subcommittee, and I have…

I want to talk about the four amendments I filed on this bill. I will say right upfront, all four are supported by my Missouri colleague, Senator McCaskill, so they are bipartisan amendments. Two of them would deal with a property…

Foreign travelers are good for us and at the end of the day they like us a lot better.

His ability to shed light on areas of concern when others are unable to see beyond the status quo will serve him well as Vice Chairman of the FDIC.

He not only possesses the courage to speak out against excessive risk taking by large institutions, but he also have a real sense of Main Street.

He is known for his candor.

He has advocated for a careful and cautious approach when addressing the problems facing our economy.

I join with my friend from New York to discuss the needs of our National Guard. We are introducing two important pieces of legislation today that I believe will help address those needs. I have always been a strong supporter of our brave…

I rise today to speak on this infrastructure jobs bill, and actually I think my good friend from Minnesota has done a great job of explaining why we need to be focused on infrastructure. I think if I was going to summarize my comments, as…

I wish to take a moment to thank Senator Kohl. The comments the majority leader made about him were certainly proven right in all of our relationships. I thank him for his guidance and encouragement throughout this process. We have had…

I thank my colleagues for bringing amendments to the floor on the Agriculture bill and also on the other two bills we are dealing with, Transportation and Housing and Urban Development, and Commerce- Justice-State. We have had a vigorous…

I am pleased to join Senator Kohl in supporting this bill, the fiscal year 2012 appropriations bill for Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and related agencies. I am glad we are considering appropriations bills…

The factory doesn't get back to work until the roads are rebuilt. The roads aren't rebuilt until the flood protection is restored. And the flood protection is not restored until Congress provides the funding.

I think as Senator Thune has just mentioned, failing to account for disaster events or mistakes and dismissing disasters as unlikely to occur again simply isn't good enough.

I join with my good friend from South Dakota and the comments he made about the disadvantage we have created for ourselves in the last 3 years by not moving forward with these trade agreements long ago. But we are going to move forward…

I am pleased to cosponsor the bill with Senator Inhofe. Between he and I, we may have been to the scenes of more tornadoes than almost anybody else in America who is not a storm chaser. Because of where we live and what we have done, we…

I wish to speak for a few minutes today about the bill that is on the floor, the amendment, in fact, to the general system of trade preferences bill. That amendment is trade adjustment assistance. Frankly, it is not a bill I would have…

I appreciate the Presiding Officer's recognition. Mr. President, this is a debate that has become the debate as part of the Burma Sanctions Act, which if we were debating the Burma Sanctions Act I would also be for Burma sanctions. But in…

I think what Senator Portman and I thought when the President said for these three trade agreements to be voted on, we had to have trade adjustment assistance. We looked at the negotiated package. It was not exactly what any of us who…

I thank my colleague. Let me illustrate by showing the impact of the ambivalence of the statutory language on agricultural research which is a major industry not only in Midwestern States like Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois…

I thank my colleague from Vermont. If he would permit me to clarify this matter further. Am I correct in understanding that, so long as that use begins more than 1 year prior to the effective filing date of a subsequent patent or…

I thank my colleague for his willingness to discuss this matter here on the floor of the Senate. It is my reading of the bill's language under section 5 that prior use rights shall vest when innovative technology is first put into…