Roy Blunt

There's a $12 million increase, though.

So would that mean you haven't decided yet whether it would just apply to a finished product or have a fee during the entire production chain of cosmetics?

I hope that with your leadership we can produce a bill again this year, and I'm going to do everything I can to be helpful in your efforts to get that done.

Of course, as our Nation's debt increases, we have to look carefully at every part of the budget, including this one.

We oppose any attempts to modify the farm-safety-net support levels provided by this vital legislation.

Obviously, you'd have to agree that their products are going to have to go through this regimen for them to be allowed to come into the country?

Energy policy should have a balanced approach and not focus on one particular source.

This is the big year for MIDAS.

this week the majority brought a bill to the floor to talk about gas prices and energy-producing companies. That was yesterday. Today the majority brought another bill and tried to move away from that bill. We ought to be talking about gas…

I appreciate your service and being here today and your leadership at a challenging time for our defense structure.

I'm definitely not an opponent of forward positioning our troops.

Proper quarters for our troops is critically important here.

I thank the doctor for his leadership on this issue during the debate on the health care law itself and right up to now, the second anniversary of it being signed into law. Certainly Missouri voters were the first voters who went to the…

I think that is what we are all hearing. Whether you are for this bill or not, my guess is that you are hearing that if you are asking that question. Another of the President's promises was that an average family, if this health care plan…

Whatever we can do about that should be done.

That would be a great solution to this, I would think, for a significant amount of time, if you've got that kind of space.

I would hate to get halfway through a plan and find out that the other half of the plan wasn't going to occur.

The Jefferson Barracks Cemetery is just such an integral part of who we have always been as a Nation and how we've treated our veterans.

I'm definitely not an opponent of forward positioning our troops.

I appreciate your service and being here today and your leadership at a challenging time for our defense structure.

this amendment would continue the current practice in which 15 percent of the bridge money that goes to States goes to local governments. If you have talked to a county commissioner anywhere in the country about the highway bill, my guess…

I thank the Senator for yielding. I am pleased to join him on this amendment. This would allow family farmers to use their vehicles within 150 miles of their farm without having to have a commercial driver's license. It is a requirement…

I thank the clerk for reporting. Mr. President, this amendment deals with the whole issue of off- system bridges. These are bridges that are not part of the State system, are not part of the Federal system, but normally are run by county…

I call up my amendment No. 1540, which is at the desk, and I ask unanimous consent that it be reported by number. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, the clerk will report the amendment by number. The assistant legislative clerk read…

I wish to speak on the amendment I have offered with my friend, Senator Casey from Pennsylvania, on the highway bill, amendment No. 1540. In my State, and I think in the whole country, the question we hear over and over again is: Where are…