Roy Blunt

There's no overriding principle of fairness if it's a bad weather day.

What we're preserving overtime for is exactly those sorts of situations--bad weather days.

I thank the chairman.

So how much did you----

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thanks, to you and Senator Wicker, for holding this hearing.

I am glad to join Senator Thune in proposing these two important amendments and also to join him on the overall point on which we ought to be focused, which is economic opportunity and economic growth. How do we get people onto the pathway…

I thank my colleagues for recognizing me to make a few comments. I agree with everything that has been said. I believe this is the fair thing to do. I think it is wrong for government to penalize some businesses over others. I think it is…

I rise today to discuss an amendment that has been filed by my friend Senator Moran that I am proud to support. This amendment would stop the Federal Aviation Administration from targeting air traffic control towers across the country…

I need to repeat my request, Madam President, just in case. I ask unanimous consent that we set aside the pending amendment and call up amendment No. 43. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Is there objection?

I wish to talk about this amendment. I hope there is still a way I might be able to offer it. If I am not able to offer it as an amendment to this bill, I intend to offer it as a bill to become part of the ongoing laws that govern these…

I think we should be very careful about the effect of our media ownership rules, especially in smaller markets like that.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

It's our job, and we ought to do our best to do that.

The advantage of waiting is you get to hear lots of good questions.

I think CYBERCOM could be a place where guardsmen and reservists are likely to be doing every day in the private sector the same kind of skill set that we are going to need in CYBERCOM.

I rise today to talk about a disappointing milestone that we passed yesterday. Yesterday was the 1,400th day since the Senate passed a Federal budget--1,400 days. So I guess today is the first day moving toward 1,500 days, but yesterday…

I am confused by the idea that there appear to be no spending cuts that can be taken.

We keep talking about the fact that we can take some balanced approach between spending cuts and revenues.

I will accept the idea that nobody told anybody that this sequester was actually going to happen, even though it was in the law.

Is there any way to prioritize those kinds of individuals showing up so 100 other workers or 1,000 other workers can show up that day?

But the idea that we need to cut spending, but it needs to be a balanced approach seems to me to fly in the face of the idea that nobody has any idea how to reach this goal even if one-half of it is revenue.

So the combination of the cuts a normal district would take plus the sort of payment in lieu of tax revenue, the Impact Aid money that we give.

So once again, we are not prioritizing. We are saying this is taking us by surprise.

I don't know of anybody that's really talked directly on this committee, Mr. Chairman, to people who were in Benghazi

I hope one thing surely we're getting out of this is that there are still terrorists in the world and they still want to do us harm.