Roy Blunt

You can't be competitive if you don't have an infrastructure that allows you to be competitive.

I am pleased to work on this with Senator Donnelly. This is an amendment which, as he said, requires that we categorize fuel types and that we say what works for various types of fuel as opposed to setting some standard that makes it…

It could be that our attendance is... these two nominees are both extraordinarily well qualified.

I rise in support of the effort that my friend Senator Manchin has done to reach a conclusion. I hope we reach that conclusion today. I was a university president for 4 years before coming to the Congress. There are 11 million…

Fifteen years ago this week, we had two of our Capitol Police officers killed in this building. Officer Jacob Chestnut and Detective John Gibson were killed. An intruder came into the building, and these two people, trying to protect and…

I rise principally to talk about the fact that today President Obama is pivoting back to jobs and the economy in a series of speeches in Illinois, Florida, and in my State of Missouri. He will be speaking at the University of Central…

I rise to discuss my hold on the nominee whom we will be voting on this afternoon, Gina McCarthy. Gina McCarthy is the President's nominee to lead the Environmental Protection Agency. There is no doubt that there are lots of things to be…

The interpretation that Justice made of the Wire Act certainly was not what we anticipated or had been the interpretation when the 2006 Act was passed.

Congress now has to go back as legislation could, and hopefully will do, and look at what we need to do now, based with this new interpretation of what the Wire Act means.

I would like to talk about the Affordable Care Act. I have long been concerned that this is an act that simply won't work. I think the premise the bill was built around is a premise that won't work. I know things like guaranteed insurance…

I thank you for the time. I want to talk about the hard work my colleagues have put in on this bill. It looks as though it is going to get a number of votes today. It will not be getting mine. I think it is important, as we look at these…

On this committee with Senator Cantwell's leadership, it always happens that we are always treated fairly and equitably.

I actually think if everybody involved here decided, OK, we are going to treat other people like we would want to be treated, this would work out pretty easily.

Mr. Chairman, with your permission, can I go ahead and ask my two or three questions and then----

I just want to be sure that's on your agenda as you're thinking about that.

This committee, over the years, has spent countless hours debating that.

Competition is the merger-review element.

The President wants to make it to 99 percent. I'm all for that.

I believe that the merger review process is a specific process that deals with that specific case, the facts in that situation, and is guided by the law and precedent.

I thank the Chair for the opportunity to speak, and I wish to continue discussing what my good friend from Iowa was talking about. There is a reason for the Senate. There are times when it is hard to figure out exactly what that reason is…

I would like to talk for a few minutes about Senator Lautenberg and what he brought to this body and what he brought to public service. I represent Missouri in the Senate, and in the House I represented southwest Missouri. Many times in…

I appreciate my good friend Senator Whitehouse yielding the time for me. Remembering Frank R. Lautenberg

I would like to respond to my friend Mr. Merkley. This act, which I would think would more properly be called the farmer assurance act, was passed by both the House and the Senate and signed into law by President Obama in March of 2013…

Do you see any future for this program?

I want to talk about the tragedy this week in Oklahoma. This is the 2-year anniversary of the Joplin tornado we had 90 miles from my home, a district that I represented for a long time before I came to the Senate and still get to represent…