Roy Blunt

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 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 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 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 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 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

Roy Blunt
stated on December 1, 2018 a tweet:

The National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2019 "includes the largest pay raise in nearly 10 years."

By Morgan Keith • December 13, 2018

Roy Blunt
stated on October 13, 2017 a speech:

Missouri "is leading the country when it comes to improving services for mental and behavioral health. Innovation is happening right here."

By Carolina Vargas • December 15, 2017

Roy Blunt
stated on November 19, 2017 an interview on "Meet the Press":

"In the current law, if you report harassment, you're the one that has to go into 20 hours of counseling before you can decide whether you were really harassed."

By Emily McCarter • December 8, 2017

Roy Blunt
stated on September 8, 2017 a tweet:

"Our tax code has nearly doubled since 1985."

By Katelyn Brown • October 17, 2017

Roy Blunt
stated on September 8, 2017 a tweet:

"Nearly 2/3 of rural Missourians don’t have access to broadband. That needs to change."

By Katelyn Brown, Patrick Mueller • September 15, 2017

Roy Blunt
stated on February 8, 2017 a speech:

"Somebody observed this week that you have to go back to the very founding of the government to the first administration of George Washington to find a time when it’s taken longer to put a Cabinet in place."

By Grace Hase • March 25, 2017

Roy Blunt
stated on January 11, 2017 a press release:

"This year, 97 Missouri counties have only one insurer participating in the Obamacare exchanges. Last year, every Missouri county had at least two insurance options. In addition, most Missourians will see an increase in their premiums, with some facing an increase upward of 40 percent"

By Gary Garrison • February 22, 2017

Roy Blunt
stated on August 3, 2016 a campaign ad:

"On three occasions, judges had to stop Jason Kander from manipulating elections."

By Ellen Cagle • November 6, 2016

Roy Blunt
stated on April 18, 2016 a petition against President Obama’s plan to close Guantanamo Bay:

"Jason Kander supports [Obama’s] plan to bring the remaining suspected terrorists to U.S. soil."

By Mary McIntyre • May 9, 2016

Roy Blunt
stated on January 15, 2016 a news release:

"The [Obama] administration’s regulatory assault on coal-fired energy has put thousands of Americans out of work"

By Mary McIntyre • March 17, 2016

Roy Blunt
stated on September 4, 2015 at the Missouri State Fair:

"The world food demand is going to double sometime between now and 2070."

By Sean Nelson • November 30, 2015

Roy Blunt
stated on August 12, 2009 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

Roy Blunt
stated on May 14, 2009 a news release:

"Democrats have failed to answer the most basic question of how they want to pay for the more than $1 trillion of health care spending."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • May 19, 2009

Latest Fact-Checks About Roy Blunt

Jason Kander
stated on August 10, 2016 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 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