Roy Blunt

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.

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

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

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

Competition is the merger-review element.

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

This committee, over the years, has spent countless hours debating 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 appreciate my good friend Senator Whitehouse yielding the time for me. Remembering Frank R. Lautenberg

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 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…

I think where you have trading partners that change the rules after things have been shipped and then wouldn't even let this be shipped back--it was there and it sat there until it lost value--is a problem.

When people travel, the foreign travelers stay longer than domestic travelers. They spend more, and when they leave, they almost always like us a whole lot better than they did when they came.

Well, what about the Healthy Watershed Initiatives in the Mississippi River?

I think that this important Department needs somebody who is confirmed, and in charge, and ready to take hold.

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…

This is a problem that many members of the Senate want to work with you to help solve.

I would like to speak as in morning business. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. Tragedy in Oklahoma

I think this is a big mistake for these cooperatives.

Do you see any future for this program?

I think it was in the Senate bill. I don't know if it was in the final bill.

Rural development makes a real difference in the rural communities.

These have been good times for agriculture, but also challenging times for agriculture.

Putting all the eggs in a renewable basket I believe is a mistake.