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.

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I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table. by Roy Blunt

I think the Tea Party has brought important issues to the table.

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Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris ? It's no... by Roy Blunt

Do you know how many Frenchmen it takes to defend Paris ? It's not known, it's never been tried.

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There isn't any real science to say we are altering the climate p... by Roy Blunt

There isn't any real science to say we are altering the climate path of the earth.

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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.

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It takes leaders to grow other leaders. by Roy Blunt

It takes leaders to grow other leaders.

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I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything. by Roy Blunt

I was the first Blunt ever elected to anything.

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You are more committed to things that you give money to - whether... by Roy Blunt

You are more committed to things that you give money to - whether it is a church or a politician.

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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.

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The shortest path to more American jobs is more American energy and more jobs that relate to American energy.

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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.

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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.

individual care thinking

Hey, well, I've been a pretty conservative member of congress. by Roy Blunt

Hey, well, I've been a pretty conservative member of congress.

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The way to create jobs is to encourage private sector job creator... by Roy Blunt

The way to create jobs is to encourage private sector job creators.

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It's not long-term debt if the money is immediately paid back. by Roy Blunt

It's not long-term debt if the money is immediately paid back.

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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.

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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.

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I'm very much inclined to be a next-chapter guy instead of a last... by Roy Blunt

I'm very much inclined to be a next-chapter guy instead of a last-chapter guy.

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I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate. by Roy Blunt

I'm interested in being part of a majority in the Senate.

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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.

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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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