Roy Blunt

Certainly based on the experience we have had for the last three Fridays, the cooperation of both the ranking member and the leadership of the chairman and the subcommittee chairmen on the appropriations committee, we have been seeing this…

I appreciate what the whip has said and would only say that we could vote on this and solve it that way, but I assume that would not present the right solution as well.

I believe we will do those in the order that they appeared starting on Tuesday. So I would expect Tuesday's work to include the Science, Commerce, State, Justice Appropriations Act, and then move on to defense appropriations on Wednesday…

I do not know what their position on that is. Again, I am most concerned that we be sure that we understood our positions when commitments were made when that bill was passed that created the National Intelligence Director's position.

if I could comment, I would say that we are eager to reach a final understanding on this. But, also, we are eager to be sure that whatever commitments were made and were reached between the administration and the chairman of a significant…

I would say it would be hard to be more disappointed than I am that this committee has only met once because of continuing concerns. From the point of view of the majority, I am sure it is our view that we removed what we thought were the…

at this moment we are scheduled to work on Friday. If we determine that is not necessary, we will announce that as soon in the week as possible. But at this point we are scheduled to work next Friday.

I would like to defer on the rules to the Committee on Rules chairman. He will have some announcements regarding rules on those bills when he speaks.

when George W. Bush was running for president six years ago, he said that our country had been without a comprehensive energy policy for a decade. We are now going on sixteen years with no energy plan for America, and it is not for lack of…

I oppose the substitute and support the bill. I want to express my appreciation to the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Sensenbrenner) and his committee and all the Members, in fact, who have been willing to take on this tough fight, but…

I rise today to talk for a minute about the importance of maintaining America's all-volunteer military in order to fight and win the global war on terror. That military is very dependent on the integrated Armed Forces, our guardsmen and…

I rise in tremendous admiration, respect and appreciation for Mr. Young, for his leadership of this committee, and also for this product that is on the floor today and give my appreciation to both he and Mr. Obey for that job.

I cannot believe anyone in this House would want violent criminals from other countries who somehow get here to be able to be released in our country. This amendment allows that those criminals would be detained. There is a great example…

the House is taking bold steps today to reform the way our intelligence community works for the first time in two generations. The legislation that we are debating here today responds to the 9/11 Commission's look at an unprecedented and…

Americans like the partnership they have. Republicans have trusted the ingenuity of the American people to expand opportunity for themselves and their families. For 10 years, the Republican majority has worked to expand the power of the…

Forty House Republicans, led by majority whip Roy Blunt, have demanded that CBS issue a retraction.

we are again hopeful and working hard to get the transportation bill completed. We think it is better to work toward that completion right now than to extend the deadline. The pressure of the deadline may help in that process. It certainly…

I would say in response to that previous comment that I am not sure that our friends on the other side of this building are as united yet as perhaps our Members are who represent the House side on the transportation number. We want to move…

listening to today's dialogue on the floor, I have been encouraged by the strong bipartisan support for the United States-Australia Free Trade Agreement. Passing this implementation bill today will pave the way for an even deeper economic…

I thank my friends both for supporting this bill and the gentleman from Georgia for yielding to me to talk about it a few minutes. This is a bill, as the gentleman from California said, that the House has passed at an earlier time. It does…

Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to have a discussion with the new President of Iraq, President Yawar, about his vision of a stable, sovereign, and democratic Iraq. All of us who joined with him in this building that day were impressed…

Mr. Speaker, this is Energy Week, and I think most American families can tell us that what they really want to see is some common sense at the gas pump. Every summer we see wild spikes in the prices of gasoline at stations nationwide. This…

What all of those that served with the President or watched him from afar were able to see was how his optimistic leadership reinvigorated the American spirit and how it redefined the politics of his time. Born in a small town near the…

As we look at our efforts to be more competitive as a society, we clearly have to look at the regulations imposed by government and be sure that any of those regulations, any of that paperwork, is justified. The cost of paperwork and…

I am glad to see us making it more possible for people to have a smaller tax burden at the lower levels of people who pay taxes in the country. I think that is a good thing. I think the 10 percent bracket and making this 10 percent bracket…