I think the majority leader just is of the view that this debate reaches no conclusion and frankly I think the extreme nature of... HR 1 from the House even makes it less likely that we're going to have that debate.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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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.

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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.

I doubt if the China comment was serious to tell Lamar Alexander... by Roy Blunt

I doubt if the China comment was serious to tell Lamar Alexander the truth.

We're committed to gather the information before we reach conclusions. Other people who don't have this responsibility can reach conclusions right away, in my case I'm not ready to make any conclusions yet and still ready to gather more information.

Just because the so-called squad constantly insults and attacks New York `` The President isn't a reason to adopt their unacceptable tactics, there is plenty to say about how destructive House Democrats' policies would be for our economy, our health care system, and our security. I think that's where the focus should be.

I think the federal government can partner, I think the federal government can encourage. Most of those states have money available to them form the $ 382 million that was made available two years ago. But I would not be of the idea that it's the federal government's job to come in and take over other states and local responsibility.

Weve done that before but it never worked out very well, farmers dont want payments in lieu of selling crops at a fair price.

Well, I know North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer better and I expect North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer'll be confirmed.

He is prepared to hear everybody out. He is certainly prepared to talk in a meeting as much as he wants to, but he is also prepared to just stay until everybody feels like they've been heard, no one on his staff ever tells him it's time for the meeting to be over.

All I'm going to say about that for a while is that I'm eager to see what the administration proposes.

I wouldn't know that. by Roy Blunt

I wouldn't know that.

This is another step in the continued direction of presidents using the emergency powers in ways I think Congress is increasingly concerned about.

It would be great if we could get this done before the Memorial(... by Roy Blunt

It would be great if we could get this done before the Memorial( Day week-long) break.

Nothing is as easy as it should be right now, i don't think that's a reflection on him as much as it's a reflection on the moment.

I think what's happening is not dead on arrival. by Roy Blunt

I think what's happening is not dead on arrival.

Secretary McDonald’s preposterous statement is right out of Never Never Land, i call on Secretary McDonald to resign because Secretary McDonald preposterous statement’s clear Secretary McDonald can not prioritize getting our veterans the health care they deserve and have earned in a timely manner.

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