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Roy Blunt is the junior U.S. senator from Missouri. He was formerly a U.S. representative from Missouri’s 7th district, and served for six years as the Republican whip in that chamber.

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Roy Blunt
stated on April 4, 2021 in remarks on "Fox News Sunday":

The proposal by President Joe Biden would put the U.S. “No. 2 in the world” for the highest corporate tax rate.

By Louis Jacobson • April 6, 2021
Roy Blunt
stated on March 21, 2021 in an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press":

Under H.R. 1, the Federal Election Commission “for the first time ever, instead of being an equal number of Republicans and Democrats (would be) three of one side and two of the other."

By Louis Jacobson • March 22, 2021
Roy Blunt
stated on February 25, 2021 in a tweet:

Says his amendment on a budget bill “would have helped get kids back in school after teachers were vaccinated. Every single Senate Democrat voted against it.”

By William Skipworth • March 10, 2021
Roy Blunt
stated on November 24, 2020 in an Interview with the Southeast Missourian:

“The president got the highest percentage of minority votes of any Republican candidate for president in over 100 years."

By Simone Esters • December 8, 2020
Roy Blunt
stated on August 13, 2019 in a Facebook post:

"U.S. agricultural & food exports are expected to increase more than $2 billion annually under #USMCA"

By Greta Serrin • September 17, 2019

Jason Kander
stated on August 10, 2016 in a campaign ad:

Roy Blunt "voted to raise his own pay 12 times" while in Congress.

By George Ash • November 6, 2016
Commonsense Ten
stated on September 15, 2010 in a TV ad:

Says Roy Blunt "secretly inserts language to benefit tobacco giant Philip Morris" into a national security bill while "Blunt's girlfriend and son are lobbyists for the cigarette company, and just days earlier, 26 Philip Morris executives wrote checks to Blunt totaling $23,000."

By Robert Farley • October 5, 2010
Roy Blunt
stated on August 12, 2009 in an editorial board meeting with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

"I'm 59. In either Canada or Great Britain, if I broke my hip, I couldn’t get it replaced."

By Louis Jacobson • August 19, 2009

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