Roy Blunt

I ask unanimous consent to enter into a colloquy with my colleagues from Delaware and Ohio for up to 30 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Manufacturing in America

Let me just talk a little bit about the startup act that Senator Coons and I have worked on. The Senator mentioned, I think, all the cosponsors of that: Senator Rubio, Senator Stabenow, Senator Moran, Senator Kaine, Senator Schumer, and…

I rise today to honor an important historical date in Greene County, MO, my home county. October 26 was the centennial of the historic Greene County Courthouse--the place where I worked for more than a decade as county clerk. The current…

first of all, I wish to follow up on a comment my friend from Alabama just made on Social Security and Medicare. I think it is very important that we listen carefully to what he had to say, that if we do things that are so-called…

today I wish to honor Dr. Tara Palmore and Dr. Julie Segre, 2013 Federal Employees of the Year, for their ground-breaking research to stop the spread of deadly hospital-acquired infections. Each year approximately 100,000 patients die from…

I thank my friend from Texas for yielding. On Monday morning, I was scheduled to be at Washington University in St. Louis, MO, to look at some of their research. A lot of the research NIH does has been done in our State; one-third of the…

Reserving the right to object, I would remind my good friend from Illinois that there was a time when in the Senate we dealt with all of these issues individually--as we should have last year and didn't. There were no appropriations bills…

I was impressed by the comments of my friend from Illinois yesterday about NIH funding. I am for NIH funding. I have never failed to vote for NIH funding. Frankly, I have never failed to vote for an amendment that would increase NIH…

Let me say to my friend from Texas that until the leadership in the Senate changed to the current leadership 7 years ago, we always did appropriations by debating and advancing individual things. The idea that we don't want to debate…

I am disappointed that the process has failed us in the last week for my friends in the House and in the Senate who, as I did, when we ran for these jobs, said we would do everything we could possibly do to not go down this path where the…

I thank the Chair for recognizing me and allowing me to follow the Senator from Alabama whose remarks I agree with. I am disappointed in what happened this week. Those of us in the minority learned another lesson for the minority, is to…

I have had the chance to listen for almost a better part of an hour to my two neighbors, Senator Harkin and Senator Coburn, one from Oklahoma and one from Iowa, both of whom, as many of us know, have totally different views of why we are…

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

The connectedness of families, the opportunity to understand and be part of the whole country is very much dependent on what happens in infrastructure.

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.

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 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…

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 would ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Affordable Care Act

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…