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It takes leaders to grow other leaders.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Leadership
Grows
Leader
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I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Blunt
Firsts
Elected
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I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Majority
Senate
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It's not long-term debt if the money is immediately paid back.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Debt
Long
Long Term
Paid
Term
Immediately
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Hey, well, I've been a pretty conservative member of congress.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Congress
Conservative
Hey
Member
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I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Important Issues
Issues
Party
Tea Party
Thinking
Table
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The way to create jobs is to encourage private sector job creators.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Jobs
Job Creators
Private Sector
Way
Creators
Sector
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I'm very much inclined to be a next-chapter guy instead of a last-chapter guy.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Guy
Lasts
Next
Inclined
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There isn't any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Climate
Earth
Real
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Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris ? It's not known, it's never been tried.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Frenchmen
Know How
Paris
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You are more committed to things that you give money to - whether it is a church or a politician.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Church
Committed
Giving
Politician
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The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Jobs
American Jobs
Energy
Path
Relate
Shortest
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I think there needs to be a much more significant filter on those Donald Trump tweets. It's OK to have some unspoken and untweeted thoughts.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Significant
Thinking
Tweet
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Somebody was telling me about the French Army rifle that was being advertised on eBay the other day - the description was, 'Never shot. Dropped once.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Army
Description
Ebay
Stupid
Me Day Never
Shot
French
Dropped
Rifle
Telling
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I was raised - my mom and dad were dairy farmers. Once you've made a decision to plant a crop for that year, you can't go back and undo that decision.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Dad
Dairy
Decision
Mom And Dad
Plant
Raised
Crop
Undo
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Government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare, and later with Medicaid, and government already distorts the marketplace.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Health Care
Marketplace
Medicaid
Big Way
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I continue to be a strong believer in the life-saving importance of early detection, and I encourage everyone to be proactive about their preventive screenings.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Believer
Detection
Importance
Life Saving
Proactive
Saving
Strong
Preventive
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Unfortunately, some in Washington remain tied to the dogma that responsible energy development cannot be achieved without taking a wrecking ball to the environment.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Development
Dogma
Environment
Tied
Achieved
Ball
Washington
Unfortunately
Remain
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When it comes to being a responsible steward of the economy, Congress needs to either lead by promoting a pro-growth economic agenda - or, better yet, get the heck out of the way.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Promoting
Agenda
Heck
Pro-Growth
Steward
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I'd be a lot more excited about eliminating earmarks if we reduced all of the spending by whatever the earmarks used to be, but nobody's, apparently, going to talk about doing that.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Spending
Apparently
Reduced
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There's no doubt that cable news hosts can say things that the president of the United States shouldn't say, and people can be harsh at you. That doesn't mean you benefit by being harsh back.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Doubt
Mean
People
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It has come to my attention that Missouri state and local law enforcement agencies may be in need of additional resources due to the unanticipated costs of responding to the unrest in Ferguson.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Attention
Enforcement
Ferguson
Law Enforcement
Missouri
Resources
Unrest
Additional
Agencies
Due
Local
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More than anything else, a budget request is a statement of national priorities; a clear enumeration of what our country needs to grow its economy and remain in the future the first-rate power it is today.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Clear
Economy
Priorities
Request
Anything Else
Budget
First-Rate
More Than Anything
Remain
Statement
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The Keystone Pipeline is one common-sense step in the right direction to help put more people back to work, reduce prices at the pump, and position our nation for greater energy security now and in the future.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Energy Security
Pipeline
Right Direction
Direction
More People
Prices
Pump
Reduce
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I think, generally, the president's tweets are not helpful to him. At the same time, Donald Trump is figured out a way to communicate with people in ways that no other president has, or he wouldn't be president.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
People
President
Thinking
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Law enforcement officials have been candid in identifying ways officers could have handled the situation in Ferguson better, and I trust those recommendations will be helpful as we continue to count on them to protect us.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Candid
Enforcement
Ferguson
Helpful
Identifying
Law Enforcement
Officers
Recommendations
Count
Handled
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If we're going to talk about economic fairness, or about fairness, one of the most pressing economic issues facing families, seniors, and job creators in Missouri and across America is the strain of skyrocketing gas prices.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Jobs
America
Economic
Fairness
Gas
Gas Prices
Job Creators
Missouri
Senior
Strain
Job
Talk
Across
Creators
Facing
Pressing
Seniors
Skyrocketing
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I'm confident that the commitment of the co-chairs of the Ferguson Commission - along with the work of other local leaders and the Missouri General Assembly - will have a very positive impact as this community works to move forward.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Assembly
Ferguson
General Assembly
Missouri
Positive Impact
Confident
Commission
Move Forward
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In the case of the Democrats' 2009 budget request, the statement of need could not have been articulated any clearer: We need more spending, historic new tax hikes, and greater control over the way American families live their lives.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Historic
Request
American Families
Articulated
Budget
Clearer
Democrats
Hikes
Statement
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People with mental health problems are almost never dangerous. In fact, they are more likely to be the victims than the perpetrators. At the same time, mental illness has been the common denominator in one act of mass violence after another.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Common Denominator
Health Problems
Illness
Mass
Mental Health
Violence
Denominator
In Fact
Likely
Mental
One Act
Same Time
Victims
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Putting together a sustainable budget requires that we all work together, that we focus our scarce resources on key priorities, and that we strengthen our capacity to deliver the best product we can for the American people. And that takes money.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Capacity
Priorities
Resources
Scarce
Best Work Money
American People
Budget
Deliver
Sustainable
Requires
Strengthen
Work Together
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There may be no issue that better illustrates the differences between Republicans and Democrats than energy. Consider it the 'all of the above' strategy for reducing gas prices, versus the 'all pain, no gain' plan for punishing those who emit carbon (like you).
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Carbon
Differences
Gas
Gas Prices
Reducing
Strategy
Versus
Democrats
Republicans
Gain
Illustrate
Prices
Punishing
Republicans And Democrats
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I've thought from the start that a parallel federal investigation into the death of Michael Brown is important. I also believe that our state and local elected officials have been given a responsibility by the people who they work for to get to the bottom of this tragedy.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Death
Bottom
Elected Officials
Given
Investigation
Officials
Responsibility
Tragedy
By The People
Michael
Elected
Federal
Local
Michael Brown
Parallel
Start
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I think health care reform is challenging and challenged. We will see what happens, but this is a difficult topic that touches every American family. And the more members of the Senate and the House both know about it, I think the harder it is to reach that conclusion you would like to get to.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Challenges
House
Thinking
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More that members of Senate know about Medicaid, in many ways, the harder it is to make that final decision, because you have got so much information, and you know how many other things are impacted here by one decision here that, five decisions later, has made a big difference in somebody's life.
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I explained to the president that I've been pleased with my conversations with the Attorney General and Civil Rights Division regarding their helpful understanding that they aren't taking over this investigation, but are conducting a parallel review of the events that led to Michael Brown's death.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Attorney
Brown
Civil Rights
Conducting
Division
Events
Helpful
Investigation
Rights
Understanding
General
Attorney General
Civil
Conversations
Michael
Explained
Led
Parallel
Pleased
Regarding
Review
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If you're a first-responder in Missouri as part of a fire department, you're three times more likely to respond to a drug overdose than you are a fire. So it's a problem. I don't know exactly what the right number is, but certainly I think members of the Senate and House are rightly concerned about it.
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Drug
House
Thinking
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Remember, there are no cuts to Medicaid. Every year in Medicaid, you spend more money than you spent the year before under this plan, but the growth is not as great as it would be if you continued to pay, for instance, 100 percent for single able-bodied adults. Now, there is something wrong with the way that system is put together.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Cutting
Growth
Together
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One of the challenges of any second-term administration is you always lose a certain amount of identification with the Congress, because everybody in the Congress in the first term knows you'll be out there in the next campaign with them, .. Your motives are always a little more suspect when you don't have to face the voters again.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Challenges
Faces
Next
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Whether you're managing the finances for a household of one, a business of a thousand, or a government of several hundred million, there's no more important statement of fiscal intent you can make than putting together a responsible budget - one that acknowledges its available means, and makes a reasonable attempt to live within them.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Acknowledge
Available
Household
Hundred
Reasonable
Thousand
Business Government Together
Attempt
Budget
Finances
Intent
Managing
Statement
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I think one of the lessons we should have learned from what's happened with the current plan is that there is insurance coverage, but there is not really, many times, access to health care. If you have these high deductibles, there is every - there is a disincentive to get the policy, because you would have to pay another - I think the average of deductible policies on the individual market.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
Care
Individual
Thinking
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It's a problem that Congress has really taken on in the last couple of years. We tripled the money that was being - to be spent on opioids. Legislation sort of followed that. Then we doubled that tripling. I think, at some point, there's a limit to how many times we can multiply that in a short period of time, but this is a real problem. In Missouri, more people die from drug overdoses than car accidents.
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Couple
Real
Taken
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Electric service providers in Missouri have warned that the EPA's so-called Clean Power Plan will raise energy costs for Missourians, reduce jobs, and hurt our state's economic competitiveness. As a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, I've fought hard to ensure provisions that would defund this harmful power grab were included in the final appropriations bill. I also support legislation to block this harmful rule and protect workers and families from the damaging effects of the Obama Administration's executive overreach and costly energy regulations.
Roy Blunt / United States Senator
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