Roy Blunt

I thank my colleague for all the comments she has made about Judge Edwards, his family, and the school. This is truly a remarkable story. I know both of our staffs have been telling us for some time now of incident after incident of young…

I ask unanimous consent to speak as in morning business for up to 5 minutes. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I appreciate your having this hearing, and I look forward to whatever we can do, working together, to get this nomination confirmed by our colleagues in the Senate.

The deep U.S.-Bahrain security relationship is the cornerstone for our collective security in the Gulf region.

the reason this amendment is being debated right now is because the administration issued an order that is unprecedented. It is unprecedented because the mandate provisions of the health care bill are also unprecedented. That is the reason…

I thank the Senator. Mr. President, let me conclude in the next few minutes by first saying that a growing list of groups support this amendment: Home School Legal Defense Association, Family Research Council, Southern Baptist Convention…

I thank the Senator. There are a number of waivers on this. The administration has given over 1,700 waivers to 4 million people. If you have a plan that is better than the government plan, if you have a plan that might be taxed under the…

my colleague, the Senator from Illinois, and I live in a part of the country where these terrible weather events--tornadoes and other things--are not unusual for us. But as Senator Durbin has pointed out, we did have them last night in a…

I wish to talk about an amendment that has had lots of attention. It is an amendment that I offered on the floor a couple of weeks ago. We weren't able--the leader didn't want to get to it at the time, but the majority leader brought it up…

I thank my friend for those good additions to what we are talking about. I might say, also, even if there is some accounting issue that makes this appear that maybe someone you are hiring is paying for it instead of you, if this is…

As one of the only games in town, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) continues to have a ballooning portfolio, well above the intended size.

I thank the Senator. Mr. President, I want to go next to my neighbor in the Congress, and now my neighbor in the Senate, and my neighbor in real life from northwest Arkansas. I am from southwest Missouri. I am glad Senator Boozman came…

I thank the Senator for her leadership and from the beginning of this discussion back in August when Senator Ayotte, Senator Rubio, Senator Nelson from Nebraska and I introduced this bill, we have been joined in this amendment by three…

I do too. I hope we find out now that while we do not have as much bipartisan support as we would like to have, we will have some. Senator Ben Nelson from Nebraska, along with Senator Ayotte from New Hampshire and Senator Rubio from…

I was asked the other day when I was home: Does the administration have a plan? I said: Well, if you listen to what they say, this is their plan, for these gas prices to go up. We are not Europe. In spite of what the Secretary of Energy…

Thank you, Chairman.

if I may make a final point. Every other country in the world looks at its natural resources, and the first two words they think of are ``economic advantage'' or ``economic opportunity.'' That is what the Canadians are doing. Only in the…

EPA should not be using taxpayer dollars to impose costly and burdensome regulations that could severely impact jobs, our economy and the cost of everything we do or buy.

Guidance can have just as far reaching consequences as traditional rulemakings can.

Well, I do. I think I will quickly yield to my good friend from Ohio and then speak again. Actually, I just met with disabled veterans who are here in town today. I told them I was going to be talking about energy, and they said the…

Thank you, Chairman Reed and Ranking Member Murkowski, for holding this hearing today.

So it doesn't set any obstacle in the way of hydraulic fracturing anywhere it's going on.

Cutting all United States foreign aid to Egypt would severely hamper our ability to protect vital national security interests in the region.

My biggest question on broadband continues to be the balance between the underserved and the unserved.

I thank my friend for putting this discussion together this morning. I think it is a serious discussion, unlike this budget, which is clearly not a serious budget. The President doesn't expect it to be voted on. The majority leader in the…